Posted on 06/28/2011 9:27:44 AM PDT by Maelstorm
ScienceDaily (June 1, 2011) — Gay young men in serious relationships are six times more likely to have unprotected sex than those who hook up with casual partners, according to new Northwestern Medicine research.
The findings provide a new direction for prevention efforts in this population who account for nearly 70 percent of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in adolescents and young adults in the United States and who also have the highest increase in new infections.
"Being in a serious relationship provides a number of mental and physical health benefits, but it also increases behaviors that put you at risk for HIV transmission," said Brian Mustanski, associate professor in medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and lead author of a paper on the research, published online in the journal Health Psychology. "Men who believe a relationship is serious mistakenly think they don't need to protect themselves."
About 80 percent of gay young men who are HIV positive don't know it, because they aren't being tested frequently enough, he noted. "It isn't enough to ask your partner his HIV status," Mustanski said. "Instead, both people in a serious, monogamous couple relationship should go and receive at least two HIV tests before deciding to stop using condoms."
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Uh. . . wouldn't the same obviously be true for straight men (and women) too?
If only they were allowed to marry, AIDS would become a thing of the past...and now, I shall go feed my unicorns.
Your god may be a sadist. My God is not the author of that.
I don't for a minute believe that someone is born queer. If queers are strongly drawn to same sex passions, it's because of choices they have made or circumstances they have been forced into at some point in their lives and even at that they still can choose to subdue their passions.
Take Priests for example who subscribe to a celibate life and regardless of all the sex scandals about Priests posted at F.R., I believe the great majority of them are celibate. (I'm not Catholic).
Yes, it's unnatural to subdue sexual urges but God demands that we go along with His rules. He is a just God and he is sovereign, that means that He and He alone makes the rules, whether we think they are "fair" or not.
BREAKING NEWS - Water is wet.
With all we’ve learned about HIV/AIDS over the last 30 years, there is NO excuse for any homosexual man to get the disease today. If they are not protecting themselves, they have no one but themselves to blame, anymore.
They don’t start that way, but they get sucked into it.
How witty!
Thanks for clearing up that little misunderstanding that philosphers from Leibniz onwards have been grappling with.
For your information, some of the best minds of Western Civilization have been confounded by the so-called "Problem of Evil."
Regards,
“Serious” means only 1 other outside partner a week. Unless the “serious” partner knows about it, and then it’s unlimited.
“I once told somebody that HIV was more likely in gay men . . .”
In the early ‘80s, HIV hit gay men exclusively, then drug-users. In order to “humanize” the disease and assure the cash for its research, it had to become less exclusively a gay disease. With some overly sympathetic “reporting” and overblown claims (”women are as likely to contract this disease as men;” “HIV isn’t a behavioral problem, it’s an epidemic [like measles]”)along with congressional support, HIV/AIDS became a protected species. Not only was mandatory AIDS-testing and quarantining of likely groups outlawed, most venereal disease testing (as in pre-marriage licensing) ceased as well. All this to deny that behavior had anything whatsoever to do with the disease and to allow those bent on continuing that behavior the freedom to spread it. Still amazes me . . . cigarettes are baaaad, but homosexuality’s okay.
I understand, I think, what you mean by “born gay.” It’s not so much born gay, as born with, as you say, a disorder (homosexuality was indeed diagnosed as a psychosis by the APA until the outbreak of AIDS). The psychosis, as I read it years ago, was a proclivity based on a number of weaknesses or lack of coping skills that COULD, but not necessarily, lead to homosexuality. Homosexuality was simply the full indulgence of the proclivity—as kleptomania would be the full indulgence of a proclivity towards greed, or murder the full indulgence of envy or anger. And, as so much was explained by Freud, it was mother-relationship caused.
But of course none of this served the gay community who needed not just “permission” to continue unnatural activity (freedom from sodomy laws, say) but recognition that such behavior was an unalienable right—not a fault, not a disorder or disease, but a valid, heretofore denied lifestyle choice! And our wise congress chose to give them that “right.”
Because, however, gayness cannot logically be an unalienable, God-given right (how can God convey a right to a behavior He apparently rejects?), it can be taken away. And I pray for more reasons than you cite that at least DADT and gay marriage will be repealed by a more sensible Congress and Court.
Is one born heterosexual?
Yes.
Notice they very carefully don't say "monogamous" relationship.
Most gay men in "serious relationships" have the equivalent of an extremely "open" heterosexual marriage.
A serious relationship to a “Gay” male is a date that lasts over thirty minutes.
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Some of the lesser minds have been confounded as well.
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They don’t have to worry about getting pregnant?
My first reaction to the article is that it was no surprise to me that monogamous homosexual males practicing “unprotected” sex were six times more likely to have diseases. Why? Because male “gay” sex is already unnatural to begin with. Whether or not they are using condoms is irrelevant.
They may avoid some infections by using a condom, but let’s face it - inserting a foreign “object” into each other’s rectum is medically and physically dangerous. It is prone to infections as well as tearing inside the membrane wall of the rectum. Why? Because the rectum was not made for sexual activity. The same is also true for heterosexual couples practicing anal “sex”.
This is a no-brainer.
Nope. Disease etc is because of sin and this is a fallen world. What God created was perfect. Man, through sin, destroyed it. God then gave man a way to live with Him again through Christ. The earth is a place of sorrow because of man's choices.
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