[GuillermoX]

What about AIDS in Africa? Is it all from homosexual behavior?

If it is, seems like there's an awful lot of homosexuals there.

[Chemnitz]

As I understand it, there are many different circumstances there. One is the lack of sanitation. Another is the way in which the monkeys that carry the disease love among people. I think the meat may be eaten in some cases.

I think it was obvious from the beginning that virtually all AIDS cases in America came from homosexual activity and dirty IV needles. The blood industry spread it for a period of time, knowing it was a blood-borne disease.

[foto]

I read somewhere that a big part of the reason for the huge AIDS numbers in Africa was the men's preference for "dry sex". They don't want their women lubricated(wet) but dry, which the women accomplish by dousing themselves with strange concotions and pretty much killing themselves since it causes lots of friction and soreness and thus broken skin which provides gateway for the virus. This, plus the old rumor about africans being better endowed all adds up to increased transmission. Don't think it explains everything but it is part of the reason, though numbers on the popularity of "dry sex" among the infected would surely help.

[apackof2]

What about AIDS in Africa? Is it all from homosexual behavior?

NO, some of it was from bi-sexual behavior

[conway]

Look, homo's like to use the back door so they leave their same sex partner and how do you think they prefer to do it to their women patners. Sodomites are the scourge of the earth.

[rightofrush]

What about AIDS in Africa? Is it all from homosexual behavior?

Africa has many endemic diseases that result in open sores - sores that provide the means for "transmission of bodily fluids".

[Unbeliever]

What about AIDS in Africa? Is it all from homosexual behavior?
If it is, seems like there's an awful lot of homosexuals there.

According to a documentary I saw a few years ago, the reason for the high hetrosexual a.i.d.s. transmission rate is because in Africa men frequently engage in anal intercourse with women as a form of birth control because "the pill" and condoms are too expensive for them.

[SlickWillard]

What about AIDS in Africa? Is it all from homosexual behavior? If it is, seems like there's an awful lot of homosexuals there.

Men who abstain from homosexual intercourse are rare, both in our era, and throughout history. This abstinence is primarily associated with Christianity, but homosexual intercourse is, nevertheless, de rigueur in many ostensibly Christian societies, such as Brazil.

Homosexual intercourse is prevalent in the Muslim world (believe it or not), commonplace in the Hindu world, and rampant on the Dark Continent.

[Zipporah]

That was my first thought.. explain the African AIDS epidemic in light of this information.

[Havisham]

What about AIDS in Africa? Is it all from homosexual behavior? If it is, seems like there's an awful lot of homosexuals there.

Brazil, a country with extensive ethnic and cultural ties to Sub-Saharan Africa, is rife with AIDS. Simply put, many urban Brazilians accept as normal the practice of anal sex. They also regard chastity as something of a joke and their regard for Christian values is marginal, at best. I think the same attitude applies to the non-Christianized people of the Sub-Sahara and accounts for the AIDS epidemic there.

[lavaroise]

Go to Zaire and men go hand in hand very often. Sodomy with women is also rampant. Africa is not your nice savage men country.

[Mr. K]

If I had to guess, it would be re-use of needles in the poorest parts of Africa, where they couldn't afford more needles.