Aids Paranoia
July, 1987
Here is the classic New York evening among single people these days: We sit around, talking of this movie and that restaurant, then maybe a broken relationship, then the new babies everyone is having. Then somebody says something about being sex-starved, then somebody else agrees that it's a sex-starved era and we sit and nod for a moment, lamenting the easier times when sexual alliances formed at the blink of an eye. And, of course, it's inevitable--somebody mentions AIDS.I can always tell when...