Right, "high risk groups." This is a rather crafty way, and quite an artificial one (as a very large number of people are rather flexible in their sex lives), of producing a category of people who you can then declare open season on. What you should be talking about instead is high-risk activities. Because of lousy sex education in this country, millions of people don't know the difference between relatively safe sexual activity and high-risk sexual activity. Everyone who gets involved in sexual relationships of any kind should know about the possibility of infections and how they are passed on and how you can minimise risk. That should be one of the main aims of good sex education. Avoiding unwanted pregnancy is another. An important part of it, not the whole thing. Sex is a joyful thing and there's a fine line between giving sensible, practical information and being seen to be moralising, and there's no point in scaring people to death either. If that is done effectively, rates of infection (and unwanted pregnancies) would plummet. It would be far more effective in reducing infection (which is what we all want...isn't it?) than the kind of thinly-veiled gay-bashing that we see in this discussion from certain persons who seem to be frightened of something or other, I'm not sure what. Something as bad as bubonic plague or incest, perhaps. Or even cannibalism, though I haven't had any takers for that one as yet.