[RipSawyer]

"Sodomy is only dangerous to the participants, period."

While certainly having no first-hand knowledge of the subject my impression has long been that many so-called homosexuals are in fact bisexual, therefore a disease contacted through sodomy, such as aids, may be passed on to a female partner. Doesn't this make your statement quoted above inoperative?

[discostu]

Sodomy isn't only performed by gays. Heterosexuals have all the necesssary equipment to do it too, and some of them use it that way. And of course most so called sodomy laws also target other (also potentially heterosexual) forms of perversion. And again if we're going to go by disease transmission we've got to target sex as a whole, syphilis is potentially fatal too and is especially dangerous to women because the visible symptoms aren't in easily visible places on them.