Jack Nicholson on the 'AIDS' puritan fear campaign.
From an interview in the Playboy Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

PLAYBOY: Are you suggesting that menopause, presumary along with Viagra,
opens up new possibilities for sex as we age?

NICHOLSON: I'm not sure if I am an expert on that, but I can tell you that
I've noticed another phenomenon related to Viagra. These have been
troubled times in the area of sexual expression. I rank the publicizing of
AIDS right up there with the atomic bomb as events that impacted our
culture for the worse. We were moving toward a more feeling, freerer
society until AIDS, which came along and gave the right wing the chance to
reinstitute its idea that sex is negative.

Anybody who owned a bar in the 1970's can tell you it was the en of the
bar business period. It was a sign of society reversing itself in term of
the enjoyment of freerer sex, because sex was associated with death.

PLAYBOY: There was always safe sex.

NICHOLSON: But safe sex became the equivalent of "I won't kiss you" for a
girl. It became just another obstruction. Most people who investigated
this knew that if you were not shooting up or getting fucked in the
heinie, you were as likely were as likely to get AIDS as have a safe fall
on your head while walking down Wiltshire Boulevard. But you could not
proselytize this view. The facts were almost useless.

You coulden't give a woman the facts and have her respond "Oh, all right".

Jack Nicholson on the 'AIDS' puritan fear campaign.

From an interview in the Playboy Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

PLAYBOY: Are you suggesting that menopause, presumary along with Viagra,
opens up new possibilities for sex as we age?

NICHOLSON: I'm not sure if I am an expert on that, but I can tell you that
I've noticed another phenomenon related to Viagra. These have been
troubled times in the area of sexual expression. I rank the publicizing of
AIDS right up there with the atomic bomb as events that impacted our
culture for the worse. We were moving toward a more feeling, freerer
society until AIDS, which came along and gave the right wing the chance to
reinstitute its idea that sex is negative. Anybody who owned a bar in the
1970's can tell you it was the en of the bar business period. It was a
sign of society reversing itself in term of the enjoyment of freerer sex,
because sex was associated with death.

PLAYBOY: There was always safe sex.

NICHOLSON: But safe sex became the equivalent of "I won't kiss you" for a
girl. It became just another obstruction. Most people who investigated
this knew that if you were not shooting up or getting fucked in the
heinie, you were as likely were as likely to get AIDS as have a safe fall
on your head while walking down Wiltshire Boulevard. But you could not
proselytize this view. The facts were almost useless. You coulden't give a
woman the facts and have her respond "Oh, all right".

Jack Nicholson on the 'AIDS' puritan fear campaign.

From an interview in the Playboy Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

PLAYBOY: Are you suggesting that menopause, presumary along with Viagra,
opens up new possibilities for sex as we age?

NICHOLSON: I'm not sure if I am an expert on that, but I can tell you that
I've noticed another phenomenon related to Viagra.

These have been troubled times in the area of sexual expression. I rank
the publicizing of AIDS right up there with the atomic bomb as events that
impacted our culture for the worse. We were moving toward a more feeling,
freerer society until AIDS, which came along and gave the right wing the
chance to reinstitute its idea that sex is negative. Anybody who owned a
bar in the 1970's can tell you it was the en of the bar business period.
It was a sign of society reversing itself in term of the enjoyment of
freerer sex, because sex was associated with death.

PLAYBOY: There was always safe sex.

NICHOLSON: But safe sex became the equivalent of "I won't kiss you" for a
girl. It became just another obstruction.
Most people who investigated this knew that if you were not shooting up or
getting fucked in the heinie, you were as likely were as likely to get
AIDS as have a safe fall on your head while walking down Wiltshire
Boulevard.

But you could not proselytize this view. The facts were almost useless.
You coulden't give a woman the facts and have her respond "Oh, all right".