The Big Chill: Fear of AIDS

How heterosexuals are coping with a disease that can make sex deadly

She stared at him, dazed and transfixed, and he went over and kneeled beside her, and took her two feet close in his two hands Then he looked up at her with that awful appeal in his full, glowing eyes. She was utterly incapable of resisting it. From her breast flowed the answering, immense yearning over him; she must give him anything, anything.

He was a curious and very gentle lover, very gentle with the woman, trembling uncontrollably, and yet at the same time detached, aware, aware of every sound outside.

To her it meant nothing except that she gave herself...

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