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To the Editor.— One of the secondary themes of my book,¹ reviewed by Dr Post in JAMA,² is that political correctness largely precludes factual correctness. The review by Post was another example of this.

For example, she substitutes "paradoxically" for "phasically" in a quoted passage that should read "intercourse but not masturbation phasically increased men's testosterone levels."^1(p99) She also states that I claim to be "nonpartisan," although in my preface I explicitly note, "The review of the low risk of HIV [human immunodeficiency virus] transmission during vaginal intercourse is more partisan than the other two reviews, because of the common assumption of such a risk in both lay and professional circles."^1(pviii)

Post opines that because I prefer the neutral term homosexual to gay, I am "culturally nonrepresentational" and therefore "nonscientific." It is debatable whether failure to use the faddish term gay is nonrepresentational (sampling bias is among the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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