Charlie Sheen did not contract HIV because he had sex with reportedly 5000 women, but rather because he had sex with one person. HIV does not result from the number of partners but rather from exposure to the virus. Yet the many journalists who reported on Sheen's testimony have become seduced by his narrative of promiscuity and have ignored the scientific facts about transmission. They have pointed to Sheen's many sexual encounters with porn stars and prostitutes in order to explain how he...
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