Rotello describes how, as prevention activists began debating what to do, their focus was almost entirely on condoms and how to raise so-called 'condom compliance' even higher. Among the primary reasons that condom use was not higher than 50% or 60%, prevention activists cited lack of safer sex education, lack of condom availability, the oppression of the closet and substance abuse. Many pointed to psychological reasons, from sexual passion, love and emotional needs, to grief and depression, to partner coercion. Some experts cited gay ‘folk beliefs’ that HIV could not be transmitted in certain circumstances.