"A Nassau County man has been diagnosed with a rare sexually transmitted disease, the first case in the county and one of seven around the country.
The Nassau County Department of Health has confirmed that the man has Lymphogranuloma Venereum, a form of chlamydia. The disease's symptoms can be serious — rectal pain and bleeding, and sores. The disease can also increase the risk of HIV (news - web sites) transmission.
Two men in New York City were diagnosed in early February with the disease, which can be treated with antibiotics if caught early. All three men are HIV positive, and had multiple partners among other men. Three cases have been identified in San Francisco, and one in Atlanta. Unprotected anal intercourse is the key risk factor for the spread of LGV, which is difficult to diagnose.
In the past two decades LGV has been uncommon in industrialized nations and primarily has been found in the tropics.
But in November, the National Institute for Public Health in the Netherlands said 92 cases of LGV among gay and bisexual men had been reported there over the preceding year, compared to the usual two or three cases a year. Officials said cases also have been found in the United Kingdom.
The LGV cases come at the same time that another New York City man was diagnosed with a case of highly drug-resistant HIV..."
"My friend Cal Thomas, the syndicated columnist, recently recalled the slights hurled by the homosexual lobby against those who have talked about the need for self-control as a key weapon in the fight against AIDS.
For more than two decades those who preached to people engaging in risky homosexual sex that "they should stop doing what they are doing because it harms them and others got them labeled 'homophobic.' Not many were able to stand up to such condemnations and so they mostly remained silent.
People who refused to change their risky behavior blamed the Reagan Administration for 'not doing enough' to fight AIDS." An often fatal disease once concentrated in the homosexual community now has spread to heterosexuals, too.
The results of forty years of sexual 'freedom' are in and it is time we start asserting that what we really need to stem the rise of HIV infections is not more research dollars but exactly what Milloy prescribed - abstinence. Until our society comes to grip with the fact that promiscuous sex outside marriage puts people at severe risk of contracting HIV infections we will be a nation blind to reality.
Milloy's prescription of abstinence is one for the entire country. Abstinence - the most effective way to prevent Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- may be rooted in morality but there certainly is a very practical benefit given that no promiscuous sex equals no illegitimate pregnancy, no unwanted child, no STD..."