My friend Chris Bartlett who works on the LGBT Community Assessment in Philly kindly dug up the original "relative risk" table from the MMWR in 2003 that Will Wong reconstructed for his recent presentation with Jim Picket at the 2007 ManAlive conference in Chicago. He pointed out that this table was a reflection of data collected from *heterosexual* partners, and wondered if this might give those of us thinking about gay men's health cause for concern in using the data for thinking about gay sex. My sense is that, while there may be some variation, it's probably not significant. But he certainly has pointed to a sticky issue of methodology in HIV prevention research! Any ideas out there?

Here's the original table with citations: