Your friend Dion claims that sexually active women in the US and Canada aren't very likely to get AIDS and other STDs. After reading your psychology of women textbook, your best response to Dion would be:
a. "Actually, a woman who has sexual intercourse with an HIV-infected man is up to eight times as likely to contract HIV, compared to a man who has sex with an HIV-infected woman.".
b. "About 40% of HIV-infected people are female, but women are actually much less likely than men to contract other sexually transmitted diseases.".
c. "True, young men are about eight times as likely as young women to have a STD.".
d. "Latina women have a higher incidence of AIDS than women in any other ethnic group.".
A
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