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).
Maybe so. I know they gather at bars to find "love."
But if there is an explanation for the lower lesbian life expectancy found by this study, I'd be interested to see it!
And, it would invalidate my conjecture above, at least on that basis.
You could be right. I have a hard time seeing it, though, since other studies support Dr. Cameron, one of which is the CDC (per the article). Plus, the study is published in the refereed scientific journal Psychological Reports.
I'm not interested. That's his field.
You can find a study or studies to suppport your views.
There's studies all over the place, but most are BOGUS.
Me too. I'll see if I can find any info.
Strange..
Here's a great story of a guy who left the homosexual lifestyle: Confession from a former homosexual
As far as I am concerned they live 20 years too long.
Latest Scientific Research: Those Struggling with Homosexuality Can Be Set FreeOnce folks realize who Robert Spitzer is, the growing number of former homosexuals (or ex-gays) takes on a whole different perspective.In 1973, Dr. Robert L. Spitzer was one of the major forces in removing homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) list of mental disorders. On May 9, 2001, Spitzer presented a study to the APA which proves that those struggling with homosexuality can, in fact, leave the lifestyle behind.
I read an article a few years ago, I do not remember the medical magizine it was in, that showed that lesbians had a higher rate of HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) which has been shown to lead to higher rates of cervical cancer in lesbians than in the general public. HPV is the virus that is responsable for genital warts.
coincheck
There's this from 1997: Sodomy: A Public Health Risk...
I haven't any reason to dispute that rates of breast cancer and ovarian/cervical cancer may be higher amongst lesbians than straight women, but it's hard to envision that they could be so much higher as to bring their life expectancy into line with that of gay men (who have a much, much higher incidence of AIDS than straight men).
This is even more the case when considering that women have a notably higher life expectancy than men anyhow, and so it would take a relatively greater drop to bring lesbians in line with gay men.
I concur. I just left a voice message with Dr. Cameron's office - perhaps I'll hear back from him tomorrow. I'll let you know.
I wonder if there's just a typo in the article, that perhaps misrepresents the study findings. I'm not the type to base too much on instinct (over reason), but it simply doesn't make sense to me instinctually that lesbians could have close to the same life expectancy as gay men. I would be very surprised if it truly turns out that gay men don't have a notably lower median age of death than lesbians.
Ewwwwww!
Lesbians and nuns have much higher rates of breast cancer since they don't have children.
MSM will say homophobia is killing 'em.
Why has onyx (since 1999-11-30) suddenly been banned?
Homosexuals of both sexes and black men are propping up the Social Security system. Were it not for these early-dying groups, SS would be closer to bankruptcy. Yet, these are the most anti-Bush, anti-SS reform Americans....strange.
Inability to cough up the hairballs?
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