Woman Between Islam and Western Society
1. A Survey
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according to medical statistics published on
Wednesday. Of the 520 new cases of AIDS
recorded in the first six months of the year,
more than two out of three — 67 per cent —
proved to be fatal. This compared with the
previous record of 58 per cent fatalities last
year.
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Now AIDS victims are being fled from as plague
victims used ‘to be in the old days. Localities which
used to be the happy hunting grounds of “gays”
now wear a deserted look. According to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica,
homosexuality had been
practised in western countries long before the
recent spate of publicity given to it, but it had not
been studied scientifically until early in the 20th
century. It was only after World War II that there
was any proper collection of data on the subject.
A.C. Kinsey, who conducted a large scale,
systematic appraisal of the incidence and social
correlates of homosexuality (1948,1953), found that
37 percent of all U.S. males, and 13 percent of all
U.S. females had at least one overt homosexual
experience with orgasm. In other western countries,
the facts largely corresponded with these figures.
