Posted on 06/10/2010 5:59:02 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have poorer health than heterosexuals in Massachusetts and bisexuals fare the worst, according to a federal health survey offering one of the few windows into health differences among the people who make up sexual orientation minorities.
Kerith Conron of Northeastern University and the Harvard School of Public Health analyzed responses to the 2001-2008 Massachusetts Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance survey, part of a national collaboration between the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state public health agencies. In 2001, Massachusetts residents were asked for the first time to identify their sexual orientation. Of the adults who completed the telephone survey from 2001 through 2008, a total of 3 percent, or 2,271 people, identified themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Conron and her colleagues write about their answers in the current American Journal of Public Health.
Compared to heterosexuals, gays, lesbians, and bisexuals were more likely to say their health was worse on 16 of 22 measures. They were more likely to be tense or worried, to smoke, have asthma, abuse drugs, or be victims of sexual abuse. Bisexual men and women were also more likely than heterosexuals to say they faced barriers to getting health care, had higher cardiovascular risk, felt sad, and had contemplated suicide in the past year. Binge drinking was more common among bisexual women than heterosexuals.
The survey also found that gay men are less likely to be overweight than straight men and lesbians are more likely to be overweight than straight women. Bisexuals and heterosexuals weighed about the same.
Bisexuals, but not gays or lesbians, were more likely than heterosexuals to be poor. Bisexual women were the most likely to report having been sexually assaulted.
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I’m surprised this news made it to the MSM. Generally they don’t publish anything that would be critical of homosexuality.
I’m just waiting for the Rosie O’Donnell jokes, with this report that lesbians are more likely to be overweight...........
Try reading your own posting, goofball.
Wait. I thought they made up 10% of the population and rising.
Someone needs to be sent to a reeducation camp.
If they were back in the closet where they belong, no one would care. But, since they are pushing their depraved lifestyle on schoolchildren and the public at large, we pay attention.
Confirmation of Family Research Council studies showing lower life expectancy for homosexuals.
What about bisexual men?
You have to wonder how much that last item has to do with the ills listed.
IOW if you compared sex abuse victims as a group, gay, bi or straight, male or female would you find that this has more to do with their wounded spirits then their sexual preference.
I know a lot of lesbians. and monogomous is not a word that comes to mind to describe the lifestyle.
I don’t know how exactly you would classify somebody as bisexual. and then get a large enough sample of people to come to such a conclusions. If they are a bisexual woman and in a stable relationship with a woman, i am sorry. I would consider that person a lesbian.
I think if anything, it is not as much their sexual habits that harm them. It is their emotional instability. Anyone who goes from one partner to another is obviously dealing with issues upstairs. It is not healthy.
That is a lot different than say 2 lesbians who have lived together for 10 years or longer.
We had two living next door - fat and smoked like chimneys
Both died before they hit 50 or so. They were not nice people either.
When wag or ljeremiah show up, they’ll post the link to all the articles on homosexuality that they have collected. Look up those by Family Research Council dealing with life expectancy.
In any case, a bisexual really doesn’t matter to the Centers for Disease Control. Their classifications make more sense. They are based on sex partners.
Men who have sex with men
Women who have sex with women
etc, etc.
The basic issue is that those who have sex with their own gender do injury to themselves physically and psychologically.
Thus, the lower life expectancy
a sc ohio older conservative :>)
I agree. But I think each circumstance is a little different. The gay lifestyle is immoral and degrading.
But there is a big difference. There is someone in my family who has been living with her partner for 10 years and they are very nice and down to earth people. Compare that to a gay man or woman out picking up dates going from bar to bar and partner to partner.
Ah, the lies Kinsey left us with.
Odds are they’ll still die 10 years before their peers.
I didn’t know Algore was a lesbian.
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