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Biology Leaves Gay Men Highly Vulnerable to HIV: Study
US News Health ^
| July 20 2012
| Randy Dotinga
Posted on 07/20/2012 12:11:16 PM PDT by scottjewell
Virus Transmits much more Easily Via Anal Intercourse, Research Shows
New research pinpoints a major reason why gay and bisexual men remain so vulnerable to the AIDS epidemic: When it comes to the transmission of HIV, a man who has unprotected anal intercourse is at especially high risk.
In fact, if that kind of intercourse was only as risky as vaginal intercourse, researchers report, HIV cases among gay and bisexual men would shrink dramatically. It would go down even more, they added, if their rates of casual sex declined.
[. . . ] According to UNAIDS, HIV is more common among gay and bisexual men than adults in general in all areas of the world, even Africa. In North America, an estimated 15 percent of gay and bisexual men are infected with HIV; the rate is the highest, 25 percent, in the Caribbean.
Previous research has shown that being on the receiving end of anal intercourse is equally risky whether you're a man or a woman. The risk was estimated at 1.4 percent per sex act with an infected person -- about 18 times more risky than male-to-female vaginal intercourse.
(Excerpt) Read more at health.usnews.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: analsex; duh; exitonly; hiv; hivfacts; homosexualagenda
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To: Cementjungle
Biology has nothing to do with it. Aberrant behavior has everything to do with it." But they were "born that way", don't ya know. So please hush up about their behavior, you might make them feel bad with your bigotry.
To: OneWingedShark
Toilet water is the same as tap water,"Well, I've never seen no plants grow out of no toilet."
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posted on
07/20/2012 12:44:12 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(FUJR (not you, Jim))
To: Pining_4_TX
Yeah, why the double standard? gee, i wonder...
To: scottjewell
Saying homosexuals are more prone to AIDS due to biological factors is like saying those that jump off buildings have a biological issue with gravity.
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posted on
07/20/2012 12:46:18 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(History says our end is near.)
To: LibertarianLiz
Actually, it was taxpayer money used to do their damnedest to try and change facts. Democrats desperately need to remove the stigma of HIV AIDS as a gay disease. It doesn't bode well with their campaign to normalize queer behavior to gain votes and it doesn't sit well with their atheist constituents, either.
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posted on
07/20/2012 12:46:18 PM PDT
by
liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
To: scottjewell
This begs the question: What is “protected” anal intercourse?
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posted on
07/20/2012 12:46:52 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: scottjewell
Maybe they should take Physics instead.
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posted on
07/20/2012 12:47:39 PM PDT
by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: scottjewell
So it IS a sh!tty little virus.
Hint to ‘mos: don’t do what aint natchel. Leave the fudge packin to Hershey’s.
Sheesh.
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posted on
07/20/2012 12:51:17 PM PDT
by
Adder
(Da bro has GOT to go!)
To: scottjewell
I was listening to the WAAF morning show on Monday and they were refuting any scientific fact that linked Gay Sex as “the gateway to AIDS”. None of the hosts were even alive in the 1980’s and the last 20 years of the Gay Agenda has erased the truth of the 80’s. They knew it was killing them by the thousands. But they couldn’t stop. I know a nice guy who had to raise his grand kids because his Flight Attendant son gave it to his wife and they both died within a year.
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posted on
07/20/2012 12:52:17 PM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: scottjewell
Biology Leaves Gay Men Highly Vulnerable to HIV: Study
Biology? People engage in a behavior the body was not mean for and the problem is biology? Can you buy a clue? The next step would be doing this for many different people. I guess that's biology's fault also.
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posted on
07/20/2012 12:52:44 PM PDT
by
Vision
("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
To: OneWingedShark
And leftists dismiss the bible...
Rom 1:27
27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.
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posted on
07/20/2012 1:01:29 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: dfwgator
"Well, I've never seen no plants grow out of no toilet." Take a drive through the back roads down south. You'll see plenty of toilets with plants growing out of them, usually decoratively set up in the front yard.
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posted on
07/20/2012 1:09:38 PM PDT
by
Teotwawki
(For a person to get a thing without paying for it, another must pay for it without getting it.)
To: scottjewell
The headline is wrong, a gay’s biology is no different
than anyone elses. It’s their behavour that makes them
vulnerable and their behavour IS something that they
could change.
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posted on
07/20/2012 1:14:14 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Mich Patriot
To: dfwgator
Our cat drinks out of the toilet several times a day, and he is 12 years old.
To: scottjewell
"being on the receiving end"
That's one way of putting it.
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posted on
07/20/2012 1:36:29 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: scottjewell
If liberals approached AIDS the same way they do guns, they’d call for a total ban and destruction of all homosexuals.
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posted on
07/20/2012 1:42:16 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: OneWingedShark
One man’s pedanticness is another’s eruditeness.
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posted on
07/20/2012 1:46:26 PM PDT
by
pallis
To: Secret Agent Man
Riiiight. Funny ain’t it, how they pick and choose?
To: scottjewell
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posted on
07/20/2012 1:53:42 PM PDT
by
wjcsux
("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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