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Sexually Transmitted Diseases

The emergence of AIDS has added new urgency to the work of an organization that turns eighty this year

It is not exactly a historical secret that sex is here to stay. But it is only in relatively recent times in this country that sexual behavior has been so openly described, depicted, and debated in the public forum.

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