Posted on 06/26/2003 10:16:44 AM PDT by Polycarp
http://www.moodynews.com/news/Articles/01.03.20SCIE.asp
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE AGAINST SODOMY
The Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear a case on sodomy, must take a close look at new scientific evidence that shows why anal intercourse kills people.
The Court has agreed to revisit the 1986 ruling that the right to privacy does not protect sexual relations between homosexuals practicing sodomy. The case they are considering is Texas' anti-sodomy law which was used against two Houston men caught having sex during a police raid of one of their apartments following a false report that an armed man was "going crazy."
This case comes at a time when homosexuals are growing in number and political clout. Attorney Ruth Harolow, who is with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York City, noted, "that the 2000 Census found near 600,000 households with unmarried, same-sex partners. She apparently assumed that any time two people of the same sex who live in the same apartment are having sex.
The Stonewall Law Association of Greater Houston declared that laws, such as the Texas one, "legitimize discrimination, hatred and even violence" against homosexuals. Actually, scientific evidence indicates the laws may be actually protecting homosexuals.
The lining of the vagina is tough, like the skin on our hands, so it can withstand the trauma of intercourse and child bearing. But the lining of the anus is too delicate to withstand any trauma.
Dr Jeffrey Satinover says: "anal intercourse, penile or otherwise, traumatizes the soft tissues of the rectal lining. These tissues... are nowhere near as sturdy as vaginal tissue. As a consequence, the lining of the rectum is almost always traumatized to some degree by any act of anal intercourse. Even in the absence of major trauma, minor or microscopic tears in the rectal lining allow for immediate contamination and the entry of germs into the bloodstream."
"Furthermore, comparable tears in the vagina are not only less frequent because of the relative toughness of the vaginal lining, but the environment of the vagina is vastly cleaner than that of the rectum. Indeed, we are designed with a nearly impenetrable barrier between the bloodstream and the extraordinarily toxic and infectious contents of the bowel. Anal intercourse creates a breach in this barrier for the receptive partner, whether or not the insertive partner is wearing a condom."
In addition to the trauma of intercourse, semen can eat away at the intestinal lining. This allows a person to "infect themselves" as the bacteria from their feces enter the blood stream.
As a result of this, a man is 2,700 times more likely to get an HIV infection from anal intercourse than he is from vaginal intercourse.
Anal intercourse is so dangerous, the United Kingdom Blood Transfusion Service will not accept blood from any man who has ever had sex with another man, even if they were practicing 'safe sex' with a condom.
Regarding safe sex, even condom manufacturers advise against anal intercourse. The condom company, Durex, said in October 2000 : "Anal intercourse is a high-risk activity because of the potential for infection from STDs including HIV transmission. Currently, there are no specific standards for the manufacture of condoms for anal sex. Current medical advice is therefore to avoid anal sex. However, whenever this advice is not followed, the medical profession recommends that stronger condoms should be used although studies have shown that there is still a risk of breakage and slippage."
One study calculated that 32% of condoms broke and 21% slipped during anal intercourse. The researchers pointed out that "condoms manufactured in the United States generally are labeled "for vaginal use only."
Though some use a drug to relax the anal muscle for sodomy, even this fails to prevent some tearing of the tissue and can suppress the immune system. The recipient may learn to relax the anal muscle, but one study found that over a third of those who received anal intercourse reported some degree of anal incontinence or urgency of defecation.
Nineteen hundred years ago, the Bible warned us, "The men leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet" (Romans 1:27). Today, science has documented that anal intercourse is against nature and that people do receive in themselves the reward of this error.
For thorough documentation on this subject see:www.christian.org.uk/html-publications/girlsandboys.htm#physical
I tend to agree.
Most of those who support such laws seem to be religious hypocrites or gay hating bigots.
We don't need these kind of people playing sex police in everybody's lives.
-Ted Nugent
Pleeze!
Don't attmpt to confuse the soopremes with evidence!
This ruling has lead you to this conclusion?
Remember that sodomy laws have been removed from the books or struck down by the courts in most states long ago.
Perhaps we can restore the former glory of this "great nation" by adopting the practices of fundamentalist Muslim states and stone homosexuals, shoot women in the head in public for unfaithfulness etc. etc???
I don't think so.
The court took sides in the culture war, just as Scalia said, and there will be no end to the flood of lawsuits and assaults on societal and cultural norms now.
That's why.
I don't see this decision as an assault on societal and cultural norms...but rather a confirmation of them.
The great majority of Americans simply don't want the sex police going into the bedrooms of consenting adults to arrest them for things like adultery and homosexuality.
I don't think this will, or should result in a flood of lawsuits you describe above.
But time will tell if I am wrong.
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