Rural African men claim AIDS as sign of masculinity. The Handicap Principle out of whack, or a indicator of sexual fitness??? I don't know.... (like the women-starving-themselves-to-be-attractive or men-becoming-little-popeyes, a nugget of instinctive truth can go way wrong when processed through the human mind).

...She found that not only did the men associate manliness with HIV, but one man went so far as to correct another by saying that he had slept with all the desirable girls in one particular village so if anybody is going to be the cause of an AIDS outbreak it would be him.