Flutterby™! : terrified of sex

The Atlantic: People Are Terrified of Sex. A look at why people reverse the relative dangers of HIV from an unprotected sexual encounter vs driving 300 miles (20x more likely to die in the car than to dying from HIV), and why when looking at how risky behavior might cause disease transmission that:

The results were surprising. Participants who read the story about someone unknowingly transmitting chlamydia —with a "mild" outcome—judged that person more harshly than participants who read about the swine-flu case where the other person actually died!