[Ads-l] AIDS-Related Quote

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

From "Dear Abby" as run in the _Reno [NV] Gazette-Journal_ 9 Dec 1986 p 3D col 1 [Newspapers.com]

"When you sleep with someone, you are also sleeping with EVERYONE THAT PERSON HAS BEEN WITH."


> 
> The New York Public Library Book of 20th Century American Quotations has the following quote:
> 
> "You're not just sleeping with one person, you're sleeping with everyone they ever slept with."
> Theresa Crenshaw, "Men, Women, Sex and AIDS," NBC-TV, January 13, 1987
> 
> Are there earlier expressions of this same thought, which I think was common in the early days of AIDS?  I am interested in tracing the
> earliest version I can find.
> 
> Fred Shapiro
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