Sodomy: A Public Health Risk

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[scripter]

MEN:

- A 1997 study in British Columbia found the life expectancy of men who engage in sodomy to be comparable to that of the average Canadian man in 1871.  Researchers estimate that nearly half of the 20 year old men currently engaging in sodomy will not reach their 65th birthday.1

- Ninety-five percent or more of the AIDS infections among gay men result from receptive anal intercourse.2

- The risk of anal cancer "soars" by nearly 4,000% for men who have sex with men. The rate doubles again for those who are HIV positive.  A Michigan homosexual newspaper admits there is no such thing as "safe sex" to prevent this "soaring" cancer risk. Condoms offer only limited protection.3

- Homosexual men face a significantly higher risk of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, anal cancer, gonorrhea and gastrointestinal infections as a result of their sexual practices.4  

- Men who engage in sodomy are 860% more likely to contract a sexually transmitted disease (STD), increasing up to 500% their risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Men who commit acts of sodomy with men have large numbers of anonymous partners, which can result in rapid, extensive transmission of STDs.  Control of STDs is a central component of HIV infection prevention in the United States; resurgence of bacterial STDs threatens national HIV infection prevention efforts.5 

- Anal Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection is nearly universal among HIV-positive homosexual or bisexual men and about 60% in HIV-negative men exhibiting the same sexual behavior.6

WOMEN:

- Many innocent victims suffer the health consequences associated with sodomy as a result of blood transfusions, rape and having normal sexual relations with those who have committed unnatural relations with others.  While men of all ages who commit sodomy with other men remain at an alarming risk, young bisexual men are said to be a significant "bridge" for HIV transmission to women.7  

- Women who commit sex acts with other women face a significantly higher risk of bacterial vaginosis, breast cancer and ovarian cancer than heterosexual women.8

- The spread of Human Papilomavirus (HPV) is not prevented by condoms.  The persons most susceptible to cancer associated with HPV are young women (under 20) and people who practice anal intercourse.9

- Women who engage in receptive anal sex are at a higher risk for contracting anal cancer.  In fact, in the U.S. general population, anal cancer is more prevalent among women than men — between 1.5 and 2 times more common, perhaps because more women than men engage in receptive anal sex.10

- The following chart provides a broad synopsis of medical problems related to sodomy:11

Sex Practice:	Potential Consequences:
1. Close Body Contact	1. Pubic lice 2. Scabies (mites) 3. Fungal Infections
2. Performer of Oral Sex	1. Oral gonorrhea 2. Oral lesions from herpes, HPV (warts), chancroid, lymhogranuloma venereum, or granuloma inguinale. 3. Nongonolococcal pharyngitis from chlamydia, other STD's 4. Syphilis 5. Hepatitis B 6. Enteric (intestinal) infections
3. Receptive Anal Intercourse	1. Traumatic proctitis 2. Rectal gonorrhea 3. Anal warts 4. HIV/AIDS 5. Nonspecific procitis (from chlamydia and other STDs) 6. Anorectal herpes 7. Anorectal syphilis 8. Hepatitis B 9. Rectal trichomoniasis 10. Lymphogranuloma venereum 11. Anorectal granuloma inguinale 12. Anorectal chancroid 13. Cytomegalovirus 14. Anorectal candidiasis
4. Receptive Manual-Anal Intercourse	1. Enteric (intestinal) infections
5. Receiver of Oral Sex	1. Physical abrasions 2. Bites 3. Herpes 4. Urethritis from various STDs
6. Insertive Anal Intercourse	1. Nongonococcal urethritis 2. Genital herpes 3. Molluscum contagiosum 4. Genital warts 5. Syphilis 6. Trichomoniasins 7. Epididymitis and/or proctitis 8. Fungal infections 9. Lymphogranuloma vencreum 10. Granuloma inguinale 11. Chancroid 12. Hepatitis B 13. HIV/AIDS
7. Oral-anal Intercourse	1. Enteric (intestinal) infections 2. Shigellosis 3. Campylobacter fetus (bacteria) 4. Enterogenic E. coli bacteria 5. Hepatitis (A, B, and others) 6. Amebiasis 7. Giardiasis 8. Salmonellosis 9. Enterobius vermicularis (parasite) 10. Oral warts 11. Oral gonorrhea 12. Syphilis 13. Lymphogranuloma venereum 14. Oral granuloma inguinale 15. Oral chancroid 16. HIV/AIDS 17. Herpes 18. Anorectal meningococcal infection

1. International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol 26, 657-661, "Modelling the Impact of HIV Disease on Mortality in Gay and Bisexual Men."
2. Michael Fumento, "AIDS: Are heterosexuals at Risk?" Commentary 84, (November, 1987) pp. 22-23.
3. Between the Lines, "Anal Cancer and You," Sept. 29, 2000.
4. Medical Institute of Sexual Health, "Health Implications Associated with Homosexuality," 1999.
5. Centers for Disease Control, "Resurgent Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Disease Among Men Who Have Sex With Men," September 10, 1999.
6. Infectious Disease News, "Because of HPV, anal cancer screening indicated for certain high-risk groups," October, 1997
7. Manila Bulletin (Philippines), "Bisexuals Serve as 'Bridge' Infecting Women With HIV," July 30, 2000 
8. Medical Institute of Sexual Health, "Health Implications Associated with Homosexuality," 1999.
9. WebMD Forum: "HPV and Cervical Cancer with John R. Diggs, Jr., M.D.," April 7, 2000.
10. Infectious Disease News, "Because of HPV, anal cancer screening indicated for certain high-risk groups," October, 1997
11. DG & Altman Ostrow, "Homosexual Behavior and Sexually Transmitted Diseases." New York: McGraw Hill, 1990. pp. 61-69.

[EdReform]

Got it - Thanks again!

You're right about negative research articles disappearing...

Scrip - do have the Paraphilia and Distress in DSM-IV article in the database?

[jetson]

GaseousAnalYogurt

[EdReform]

Indeed, it's a good read - thanks!

Scrip - here's another one for the database:

Sexual Politics And Scientific Logic: The Issue Of Homosexuality

[PISANO]

Shhhhhhhh........don't tell anyone!

[scripter]

I have the links on them now, thanks. We really need to get all the articles (the actual text) posted on FR somewhere. The database currently has the title, the original link (if it's still available) and the link on FR (if it's been posted).

I've been thinking of posting the entire database (currently 278 links) as a separate thread on FR for everyone to reference. I just have to come up with a format I like.

[Clint N. Suhks]

We really need to get all the articles (the actual text) posted on FR somewhere.

I freep-mailed lentulusgracchus on this very point. These are "smoking gun" online APA rebuttals and it would be a shame to lose them. I’ve asked LG to start a thread with his/her interesting perspective on these and other online sources you all may not have as well. I’ll send you both those privately.

[scripter]

Sometime this year I hope to write a program to archive everything, making it very simple to have everything saved someplace safe. Once the program is done, about the only thing we'd have to do is email the text of the article and it automatically get's saved by subject title and perhaps a category, depending on how smart I write the program.

I started the database because I noticed the homosexual agenda links drop off in time. The links still exist but the reference in the index drops off and I'm not sure what determines when the link drops out of the index. Also, the database is sorted by category, which is a huge help when looking for something.

I appreciate any help in the form of ideas on how to make this any easier for folks to reference.

[Clint N. Suhks]

About the only thing I can think of is if you had your own web site where you can store each link in its entirety so we can hypertext it to post on FR or where ever.

[scripter]

We're in the process of moving so I'm physically moving my website as well - soon it will have all the bandwidth it needs. The only problem with using my website is the amount of bandwidth freepers tend to use. It's more than I can afford!

[lentulusgracchus]

I didn’t know Marmor was involved with the case, I thought the “Judge” acted all on his own.

Marmor was one of two "expert" witnesses who appeared and gave testimony in Judge Buchmeyer's federal court, which was the North Texas district, in support of the gay appellants' position. The case was very like the Lawrence case, and the appeal in federal court was intended to overthrow the Texas sodomy statute. The case had been basically forum-shopped to Buchmeyer's court because he was a screaming liberal, who went on to hand down all sorts of other outrageous "interstitital and penumbrous" McGovernite decisions and dicta.

The actual defendants on appeal were the Texas attorney general (a 'Rat who didn't want to defend) and local D.A.'s, until a group of Dallas-area doctors calling themselves Dallas Doctors Against AIDS attempted to intervene on public-health grounds, with the acquiescence of one of the attorneys originally defending. The DDAA attorney, who was arguing that the emergent AIDS epidemic argued for a strong public interest in a statute that banned a principal mode of AIDS transmission, summoned Paul Cameron on short notice (he'd been involved in another case at Texas A&M University), and Cameron appeared for the intervenors, against Marmor. His presentation was apparently ragged and included current newspaper stories, and the judge seized on the nonprofessional sources to attack Cameron's credibility. Cameron's presentation necessarily attacked Marmor's, and Cameron may have said some things about Marmor's activities as vice-president and then president of the APA that militated against Marmor's objectivity. Marmor rebutted and attacked Cameron, but I don't have that material. Buchmeyer basically said from the bench that the eminent Dr. Marmor, past president of the APA, is a lot more credible than Paul Cameron, who perforce is a liar and a faker.

Marmor may have made reference -- this is speculation -- to an incident a few years before, in which Cameron was sucker-punched by someone who planted a story on him at a meeting in Nebraska. Cameron was talking to a group about the numbers of incidents of youth abuse involving gay men, and "someone" told "someone else" just before the meeting about an outrageous incident of child abuse by a gay man or men that had just occurred and was a live, open case in Nebraska. That person repeated the story with all the details to Cameron, who carelessly repeated it during his presentation. He was promptly attacked as a liar, and on inspection the story vanished into thin air. IMHO the story was planted on Cameron to damage him, and I think -- I'd have to find a transcript from 1981 to be sure -- Marmor may have mentioned the incident in rebutting Cameron before Buchmeyer, and then played Buchmeyer's reaction back to the professional-affairs committee of the Nebraska chapter of the American Psychological Association, of which Cameron was a member. As I posted above, this professional-affairs investigation sent Cameron a letter demanding a review of his materials and writings, to which Cameron replied by resigning.

[Litany]

great....I graduated from Univ. of Pittsburgh....another reason I can tell them why I refuse to contribute to the alumni fund.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Wow, that’s quite an in-depth account. How did you research this? Do you have on-line sites, or it sounds like your were there?

Cameron, who carelessly repeated it during his presentation.

Oh yes; now I remember you telling me this before. Let’s face it, he’s made mistakes, he’s maybe a little naive but that doesn’t compare to the Big Lie propagated by the APA. The effects for which have trickled down from psychiatry to psychology to sociology and psychoanalysis; that was the day when science was left behind for social engineering and bias.

[jla]

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[lentulusgracchus]

Wow, that’s quite an in-depth account. How did you research this? Do you have on-line sites, or it sounds like your were there?

No, I wasn't an eyewitness, though I'm old enough. No, someone passed me links to the Buchmeyer decision and some of the briefs in the Texas sodomy case, which are posted online (I have links somewhere), and there are memoranda online criticizing Cameron, plus Cameron's own posts about the incident in Nebraska and his later confrontation with his detractors in the American Psychological Association. Some of it is on the NARTH site, and some on sites borking Cameron.

[lentulusgracchus]

Some links:

Gregory M. Herek of UC Davis attacks Cameron

Documents from Baker vs. Wade, the Texas sodomy case Cameron appeared in. With opinion by Judge Buchmeyer attacking Paul Cameron.

Loretta Haroian's Class Guide on Child Sexuality (Reisman detractor)

[lentulusgracchus]

I also would like to note a debt concerning the links to Judge Jerry Buchmeyer's opinion and other court documents, and a link to his curriculum vitae online, to FReepers Smart Aleck and B.O. Plenty, who were familiar with this activist liberal judge and knew "where to find him" and his woolly works.

[EdReform]

Scrip - new links ping...

[scripter]

Got it. I'll add the links later today.

[EdReform]

Thanks!

[Redcloak]

"Researchers estimate that nearly half of the 20 year old men currently engaging in sodomy will not reach their 65th birthday."

I suppose that's one way to save Social Security.