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Is gay sex without a condom more risky than straight sex without a condom?
For HIV, yes. Pregnancy? No. (Kind of the point)
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Originally Posted by Wudge
If the gay community in its entirety is not more irresponsible than striaght people, then how do you explain what was noted in the article; i.e., that the younger gay group "is 19 times more likely than the general population to be infected by HIV, Hirnschall said?"
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There are biological differences in the virus transmission that makes homosexual sex more risky than heterosexual sex. Moderator cut: .
The answer to your question was in my initial response to the OP. Feel free to address it.
When AIDs was becoming a major disease in their community they refused to listen to health authorities asking them to close down the bath houses and to practice safe sex.
Not true.
To this day, there are no gay bathhouses in San Francisco. And gay porn is still far more likely to use condoms than straight porn is.
I think an interesting point based on the article is that this isn't limited to gay people and the WHO never meant it to be.
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The new guidelines also focus on other high-risk groups, pointing out that men who have sex with men, transgender people, prisoners, people who inject drugs and sex workers together account for about half of all new HIV infections worldwide.
Overall, the approach itself does create a rather interesting situation though. This is one of the first times that taking an ongoing "treatment" has been suggested as a preventative measure for a disease. I'm surprised they would suggest this because normally this would result in a higher rate of mutation, possibly leading to a Super HIV that was resistant to treatment.
Unprotected, anonymous anal sex practiced in basically public gay bathhouses could easily be Moderator cut: off topic led to the AIDS epidemic.
Face up to the truth. Gays were asked to STOP it for their own good...ignored all health authority suggestions and recommendations and then whined like little kids that the world was ignoring their plight.
Do you have that assertion backed up by a non-biased source? I am curious to see if this, indeed, true.
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This is the title of the thread: 33 Years Ago, Gay Behavior Resulted In An HIV/AIDS Explosion; It's Exploding Again. Will Heterosexuals Again Suffer?
My reply is this. As a straight person, I hope, pray and wish that any kind of HIV/AIDs explosion does not happen. I work with many gay people, mostly men. They are my friends. They have the same emotions and dreams of straight people..they want love, acceptance and happiness. How anyone could ever want them to have less than that is beyond me.
I urge everyone...straight or gay...to practice safe sex if they are in casual relationships...or if they have reason to question their partner's fidelity. AIDS still kills.
Because of irresponsible behavior within the gay community, I believe the heterosexual community will end-up suffering once again -- HIV/AIDS eventually transferred from the gay community to the heterosexual population -- and that a large number of heterosexuals will again end-up affected and/or die as a result of this new HIV explosion with the gay community.
In effect, innocent heterosexual people (bystanders) will again end-up being collateral damage that resulted from a new explosion of irresponsible behavior within the gay community.
There is no reason in the world why anyone should have to learn for a second time that the stove is hot. Much less end-up causing people who do not go anywhere near the kitchen to be severely burned and/or die.
The lack of respect this demonstrates for other people goes far, far beyond disgraceful.
To this day, there are no gay bathhouses in San Francisco.
It took them quite a few years to shut them down. An organization called "Sex Panic" even tried to stop that, even when it was becoming painfully clear that multiple partner sodomy was the key method of transmission.
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Do you have that assertion backed up by a non-biased source? I am curious to see if this, indeed, true.
Here you are. Extensively footnoted. Sadly, *an ideology* of so-called "liberation" allowed all common sense public health measures, used for all other diseases, to be blocked, for more than a few years.
Am I missing something or isn't it an inescapable fact that the majority of those afflicted with HIV/AIDS worldwide are straight? Ground zero of Transmission of SIV in chimps to humans (HIV) was in Africa, the most afflicted continent in the world where the vast majority who have it are heterosexual.. Clearly worldwide this is a human disease that won't be addressed meaningfully by finger pointing and blame.
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I am curious to see if this, indeed, true.
