“But wasn’t giving them “marriage” supposed to reduce all of this risk?”
In fantasyland, maybe.
Someone once pointed out that in the heterosexual world there is no such thing as an unfettered male sex life since women are too smart to let us get away with it.
But in the gay world it’s two (or more!) male sex drives at work without any brakes on them at all, so they have astronomical numbers of partners. A petri dish paradise for the HIV virus.
The main thing that keeps it from wiping out entire populations is that it isn’t as easily transmitted as many other viruses. Or maybe wasn’t until now.
I read an article that said most gay men have over 250 partners before age 25. I think it was age ranged from 15 to 25, after 25 to 50 it averaged over 300. That’s an average, I’m assuming that some had quite more, and didn’t answer truthfully, I’ve seen comments about them bragging of having a thousand or more. Sick
“But in the gay world it’s two (or more!) male sex drives at work without any brakes on them at all, so they have astronomical numbers of partners”
A HS classmate of mine died of aids in 1989.
His roommate was a HS classmate of mine as well (but he was not gay) Told us at the reunion in ‘90, Mark would go to gay clubs or parties and hook up with 8-10 men on a weekend, every weekend.
I came from a small town and never knew any gay people who were out. I was pretty naive. Thought he was exaggerating at the time.
“The main thing that keeps it from wiping out entire populations is that it isn’t as easily transmitted as many other viruses. Or maybe wasn’t until now.”
If HIV every became airborne and easily transmittable, tolerance and acceptance of gays would vanish overnight.
The gov’t would round up all the HIV positive folks, gays and drug users and ship them off and not a word would be heard from the populace. Pc would die overnight.