[sam_whiskey]

Riiight...THE INTERNET caused it. Heaven forbid people take personal responsibility for anything in this country.

[taxesareforever]

Isn't that like saying that circulars are responsible for people getting fat? Nobody is held accountable anymore. There is an excuse or reason for everything, even if someone has to dream one up. However, normally, there is a thing called "government grant" that pays for studies like these. A result is required no matter how stupid.

[concentric circles]

I've just about gone blind a few times while spending too much time on Free Republic. Does that mean I'm gay?

[GeronL]

Wait. I use the internet. I'm using the internet right now! eeewwwwww!!! Who can I sue??

Should I be wearing latex gloves???

[MonroeDNA]

Pens are responsible for writer's cramp.

On another note, I thought it was gay but sex.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

Wow, what shocking, surprising news!! Who would have thought it?

Let me know if anyone wants on/off this ping list.

[farmfriend]

There was a thread about computers being dirtier than toilets but now I can't find it.

[Clinging Bitterly]

No worries, I run Live Update automatically and my anti-virus is always up to date < /sheesh >.

[quantim]

Look out! SUV's are next....

[CzarNicky]

'Of gay men who met their partners online, 67 percent were HIV positive, according to the study. '

Chlorine in the gene pool I think.

[Joe Bfstplk]

C'mon, now. Everybody knows it's Bush's fault.

[weegee]

Possible cause identified: Your computer is dirtier than a toilet

[lilylangtree]

It doesn't take too many brain cells to understand that unprotected sex opens you to many diseases. AIDS wouldn't spread if queers would use protection or abstain. My sympathy is not with these jerkoffs.

[AD from SpringBay]

Dummy me - I always thought homosexual sex was leading reason for syphilis among the sodomite community.

[The Great RJ]

You can get syphilis on the Internet, but the position is difficult to maintain and may damage computer equipment.

[Desron13]

"The Internet has played a significant role in the latest increase in cases of syphilis among gay men by introducing partners more likely to practice high-risk sex, according to a study released on Wednesday."

This sentence is so wrong that I hardly know where to begin. Does the phrases common sense, personal reasonability, moral turpitude, sexual addiction or just plain old societal sanity ever occur to any of these so-called reporters?

[vpintheak]

Algore invented the internet! It's all his fault!

[Dustbunny]

Interesting but lacks logic.

Guess they have no control over their actions. Poor babies.

[Intolerant in NJ]

"Potential public health prevention and control efforts should include interventions like online outreach."...These people don't have a clue - a documentary presented recently on the Sundance Channel called "The Gift" detailed how many gays now are actively seeking HIV infection. Filmed in San Francisco, it showed among other things the use of the internet to set up massive weekend parties attended by hundreds of gays who purposely participated in "barebacking" - sex with multiple partners without protection. In fact at most such parties it was forbidden to ask any partner if he was HIV positive; it was considered bad manners to even mention the possible use of a condom. Most of those involved were "bugchasers" - gays actively seeking to become infected. "The Gift" of course was to actually become infected and test HIV positive. At one point several gays involved in this circle try to think of one gay man over the age of forty whom they know in the San Francisco area who has not tested positive - and can't. And this was presented as a film sympathetic to gays......

[Qwinn]

Blaming the internet for syphillis among gays is like blaming Ford Motor Company for drunk driving.

Qwinn