Posted on 09/24/2014 12:01:46 PM PDT by Mount Athos
London's gay community is facing a sexual health crisis as a result of "worsening" awareness of the dangers of unsafe sex. Whilst gay and bisexual men represent less than 4 percent of London's population they are responsible for 84 percent of syphilis cases and 65 percent of gonorrhoea cases in the capital.
A new study from Public Health England (PHE), reported on by Pink News, suggested that around a quarter of all reported cases of sexually transmitted infections (STI) are diagnosed in gay men.
Diseases like gonorrhoea are not the only infections being reported in the gay community. The bacterial infection shigella flexneri – which causes diarrhoea – is common, as is lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV).
The report also warns of the dangers of "chemsex", the practise of taking drugs during a sexual encounter. Participants in chemsex are often less careful when it comes to using condoms, as they are high during sex sessions.
The drugs used in chemsex encounters include: crystal methamphetamine, GHB/GBL and mephedrone. The use of these drugs are much higher in the gay community than elsewhere in British life. All of these drugs are considered highly dangerous by doctors.
Dr Yvonne Doyle, regional director for PHE London said: "The worsening of sexual health of men who have sex with men is despite evidence that they are increasingly aware of and accessing services.
"High numbers of MSM are taking risks with their health by not using condoms consistently and as a result we are seeing rises in a whole range of STIs, including HIV."
It had been hoped that policies like same sex marriage would have encouraged the gay community to be less promiscuous. This report suggests that the impact of this policy has been very limited in sexual health terms.
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So Eddie Murphy was a prophet?
[ like same sex marriage would have encouraged the gay community to be less promiscuous”
Riiiight! The moronic concepts of the deranged left. ]
Gay marriage is mostly about bragging rights and poking a stick in the eyes of of traditionalists.
It is about forcing validation, not actually EARNING validation from their perceived social and moral enemies.
It is also about trying to scam the system of certain privileges afforded to traditional families by the government.
And lastly it is about their selfishness that if they get married they will get their “lover” all to themselves. Which by the nature of how they perceive “sexual relations” is impossible because promiscuity is part of the “ghey culture” (this is why domestic violence among “married homosexuals” is so high).
The sad thing about this is that someone, if not many, are bringing this home to their wives also.
Buggery is bad, mmm-kay ?
If only they were allowed to “marry” this wouldn’t be a prob.... Oh, wait....
We have big parades - compulsory, for some of us - to celebrate a leading cause of disease and death. Culture of Death? Sure looks like it to me.
They must have awfully big bedrooms for 500 of them together. Yikes! Seriously, they're that demented?
That is a lot of rectums, now I need mind bleach.....
Oh yes. liberals insist this is not a mental illness, just another normal, healthy lifestyle..........
Sometimes, ya just wanna go postal......
Bell and Weinberg, 1978. May be true, may be untrue, but somebody ought to do another survey just to be sure.
I agree, they don't care; but, I think part of the problem is the censorship inherent in political correctness. When AIDs first hit, Andy Rooney nearly lost his job because he listed AIDS as one of the diseases caused by "lifestyle". Now, this is entirely correct. You don't have anal sex with lots and lots (some -- triple digit numbers) of men that you don't even know; and, you don't share needles while you are shooting up drugs. Without those behaviors, your chances of getting AIDs are very low.
The real problem here, is that we are not allowed to talk about this, except in sympathetic tones that make the people who have made some very bad choices, somehow the victims. Versus those of us who end up paying the bill.
What a lot of people don't get, is that promiscuous sex with strangers in public places; is actually part of the "gay" lifestyle. It turns them on, they like doing it, they are not going to stop. These are people who play a sort-of "gay" russian roulette, by having parties where someone there is HIV positive, but you don't know who; so, you might end up getting infected yourself. You just don't know. That's what makes it exciting for them. You are correct, also, anti-life.
I remember when AIDs first hit and hubby and I were watching a news item about it. After the report was over, he looked at me and said, "Boy, am I glad I'm married".
I wonder if Progressives, er, Gays, should pay higher insurance rates.
Churchill knew.
I vote for quarantine and expulsion.
Among homosexuals, the respective figures were 96% and 94%.
I would be willing to bet heavy odds that if the research drilled down further, they'd find the majority of the promiscuous heteros were satisfied with 1-2 extras whereas the promiscuous homos would be far greater than that by at least a factor of 10.
These cataclysmic differences in behavior explain the huge differences in STD rates. So how is a cutesy slogan like "Marriage Equality" supposed to apply to such cataclysmic differences in behavior?
But sodomites are just like everyone else.
Don't you mean Neil and Bob?
That is a real risk once a gay man contracts Ebola. From shortly before symptoms appear until 50 days after a full recovery, sex can still spread the disease, and that risk is particularly high for gay men.
Gaëtan Dugas claimed to have had hundreds of sex partners a year, for a total of over 2,500 sexual partners before he died of AIDS. He also claimed to have intentionally spread the disease. Ebola spreads much more easily than HIV through sexual contact. I do not want to see the outcome of adding this disease to the risk profile of gay sex.
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