Posted on 06/06/2005 10:50:27 PM PDT by scripter
Dr. Paul Cameron, President of Family Research Institute, a Colorado-based think tank, announced today that a new study on the life span of homosexuals will appear in a 2005 issue of the refereed scientific journal Psychological Reports (Volume 96: pp. 693-697).
This study provides additional evidence that the practice of homosexuality, with its attendant lifestyle, shortens the life of practitioners by about 20 years.
"Obituaries have indicated that gays seldom reach old age," Cameron said. "Indeed, gay obituaries suggest that engaging in homosexuality costs participants between 15 to 25 years of life, suggesting that homosexuality is more dangerous than smoking or being fat.
"Over 10,000 gay obituaries have been collected from homosexual publications. Are the obituaries listed in the gay press representative of gay deaths in general?" Cameron asks.
A new study that compared them with Centers for Disease Control data indicates they are.
The Washington Blade, a homosexual newspaper, has been the major homosexual paper used to track homosexual obituaries. So its obituaries for death due to AIDS were compared to AIDS deaths among males who had sex with males from the CDC for 1994 through 2000. Surprisingly, there was almost perfect correspondence. The effects of the new drug cocktails for AIDS were evident in both datasets. In 1994 the CDC put the average age of death by AIDS for homosexuals at 39, the Blade at 40. By 2000, the CDC reported the median age of death at 43 and the Blade at 42. Similar correspondences were noted for the 25th and 75th centiles of deaths.
The CDC reported that 9% of heterosexuals who died of AIDS were at least 65 years of age. But less than 4% of homosexuals and IV drug abusers who died of AIDS reached 65.
"These findings add substantial support to our previous findings," said Cameron, who headed the study. "While no one has all the facts on this issue, the CDC data is about as good as it gets. These data indicate that considerable progress in medically combating HIV is being made – its even affecting deaths from other medical causes. Right now, the median age of death for gays in the obituaries is running near 60 – about tied with the median age of death for lesbians. Of course, the median age of death for adults is about 80 – so the 20 year hit for engaging in homosexuality that we reported 15 years ago continues to hold."
The new study "Gay obituaries closely track officially reported deaths from AIDS" can be read in the scientific journal, Psychological Reports (2005;96:693-697).
It should be common knowledge that a male anus is not designed to have a penis inserted into it!>>>
What a female one ? ROFL
Lockjaw.
Um-hum. Admin - why hasn't onyx suddenly been banned? :^)
It was not the commies that got the APA to rescind this as a psych disorder. It was a militant gay group constantly badgering them to desist. I have a DSM 3 with gay as a disorder.
And shouldn't someone that wants to change their behavior be aloud to seek help to do that? The APA will 'dis bar' any practicing mental health official that offers this treatment to gays.
I just got the book and haven't had a chance to even start it.
It might be interesting to see the context of the "too much freedom" title.
Then why do other studies, including studies from the CDC support his work? If you want to know what really happened to Dr. Paul Cameron, I highly recommend you read about it here:
Revisiting New Republic's Attack on CameronClick that link and be sure to read all the sub links. And clink the links at the bottom of the first post.
And nobody is saying all homosexuals have to change. What a growing number of folks are saying now is that they're offering homosexuals a choice. Homosexuals that want to leave the lifestyle now have a choice.
Read about Mike Haley.
That post summarized it well.
Read the article again and tell me what the CDC study actually found. "The CDC reported that 9% of heterosexuals who died of AIDS were at least 65 years of age. But less than 4% of homosexuals and IV drug abusers who died of AIDS reached 65." All it's saying is that, of people who die of AIDS, more straights than gays are over 65. Now, tell me how the study defines gay and straight. Are the subjects self-defining? If so, then it's quite possible that older gays are less likely to identify as such, so many of of the over-65 AIDS deaths identified as straight are actually gay.
This whole notion of "straights live longer" is nonsense, at least based on this study. All it's found is that more old straights die of AIDS than old gays. Figure that one out.
Using obituaries as a way to figure out life expectancy doesn't sound too accurate to me. First of all, obituaries are self-selecting. Furthermore, you only get the obituaries of people who are willing to say that they are gay. What about the obituaries of gay people who don't identify themselves as homosexual in the obituaries?
I'd be curious to see how accurate obituaries would be at predicting the life expectancy of the population as a whole.
What I find sad is you've admitted you're not interested in reading more but you're apparently more than willing to spout old discredited science. It would be far more honest if you would get your husband on FR instead of spouting this nonsense.
Didn't Cameron used to claim that homosexuals are more likely to cheat on their taxes and shoplift, too?
"[His 1991 research] made the unassuming LeVay one of the most misunderstood men in America. "It's important to stress what I didn't find," he points out with the courtly patience of someone who long ago got used to waiting for the rest of the world to catch up. "I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are 'born that way,' the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain--INAH3 is less likely to be the sole gay nucleus of the brain than part of a chain of nuclei engaged in men and women's sexual behavior. My work is just a hint in that direction--a spur, I hope, to future work."11 years later and still nothing from any other scientist. But what we continually see is a growing number of former homosexuals.Source: Interview with David Nimmons (March, 1994) "Sex and the Brain", Discover, Vol. 15, No. 3, p. 64-71.
Would you like some gasoline with that unnecessary fuel?
"LOL. Besides smoking, alcoholism is prevalent in their "community."
Also, they have a very high rate of serious drug abuse, with the alcohol and their high risk sexual abuse activities.
CDC, the Gay Mafia and the MSM pushers of the Gay Agenda have avoided the linkage of the drug abuse with the short life span of the gays.
BS. I responded to the crap posted by a keyboard wonder boy. You are one twisted dude.
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