It was the age of overindulgence. It was the age of tolerance for anything in anybody. It was the age of fear of imposing one's own social values on someone else. It was the age of the trivialization of sex. It was the age of anticelibacy. It was the age when early teenage sex was commonplace. It was the age when homosexuality came out of the closet and became almost acceptable to those who once found it intolerable. It was the age of easy, irresponsible oversex, abortion on demand, chlamydia, and genital herpes. And it was the age of AIDS. Not since syphilis among the Spanish, plague among the French, tuberculosis among the Eskimos, and smallpox among the American Indians has there been the threat of such a scourge. Yet, the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is different from any disease previously seen clinically and epidemiologically. After the torrents of words
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George D. Lundberg (1985) studied this question.