“If by AIDS you mean that the HIV virus is present in your body, then I would refer you to the book Inventing the AIDS Virus by Peter Duesberg. It is quite possible that your situation does not warrant abstention from sex at all—but only because the HIV virus is harmless.”1 — Doug Wilson
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Here are some links to other blogs and podcasts dealing with this and other issues in more depth:
https://bredenhof.ca/2023/07/03/doug-wilson-the-bad/
https://bredenhof.ca/2023/07/10/doug-wilson-the-ugly/
https://dougwilsonsays.com/blog/to-prevail-in-conflict-is-not-possible-without-deception/
https://rachelgreenmiller.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/a-question-for-wilson-fans/
https://kaeleytrillerharms.substack.com/p/pastor-doug-wilson-above-reproach
Footnotes
Footnotes
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Douglas Wilson, Fidelity: How to Be a One-Woman Man, Canon Press, 2012, p.145, Kindle Edition. Doug wrote this in response to the question: “A few years after marrying my wife, I was diagnosed with AIDS. I must have contracted it during my pre-conversion promiscuous years. Does this mean I must abstain from sex with my wife for my lifetime? Doesn’t my wife have an obligation to satisfy me sexually, since her body is not her own?” In addition to the aforementioned quote, Doug also states: “First, the principle. What we have here are conflicting obligations. She does have an obligation to satisfy you sexually, but you have a greater obligation to protect and nourish her.” And after addressing a few more things, he closes with the quote featured in this post.
It appears Doug originally espoused this view in Credenda Agenda Volume 8, Issue 4, which was published around 1996 (no longer published): “According to the scientific method, HIV does not cause AIDS. The virus is a perfectly harmless passenger virus that does nothing more serious than to cause dementia in AIDS researchers.” https://web.archive.org/web/20140418163705/http://www.credenda.org/archive/issues/8-4exlibris.php
He continues to hold this view as he stated in 2018: “I have not yet been persuaded that Duesberg was wrong. But I would encourage married couples in the position you describe to read up on it, and I would encourage them to read both sides—Duesberg included.”
For more information on Duesberg’s debunked theory: https://web.archive.org/web/20241115175513/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4326726/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240302201925/https://dougwils.com/books-and-culture/s7-engaging-the-culture/if-letters-were-bullets.html ↩