Posted on 01/27/2005 6:18:33 AM PST by randog
LOL...
I don't think that....did you read my post
What about insurance companies....it is statistically proved that engaging in "risky" lifestyles (smoking, overweight, drugs,) drive up health costs....so companies are saying you smoke you have to go.....what about homosexuals that are involved in "risky lifestyles". Should the same be applied to them? It is proved that it costs more to cover domestic partners, yet county by county city by city they are offering these benefits. It is just wrong.
Researchers found cervical cancer and HIV infection were the leading causes of sexual behavior-related death among women and HIV was the single biggest cause of death among men.
Researchers estimated that more than 2 million years of life were cut short due to premature death and loss of healthy life because of a disability attributable to sexual behavior. That's 6% of the national total of DALYs.
Nearly two-thirds of the health problems caused by sexual behavior were borne by women, who were also most affected by sexual behavior-related disability.
Men accounted for 66% of overall deaths attributed to sexual behavior. But researchers say if HIV/AIDS deaths are taken out of that figure then 80% of the deaths would be among women, largely due to cervical cancer deaths.
Cervical cancer is strongly associated with certain high-risk strains of the human papilloma virus, which is a sexually transmitted infection.
Great tagline FRiend.
It was noticed that sex... Wait, let me capitalize it. It was noticed that Sex has taken on all attributes of a religion in our society.
Sexual virtues -- i.e. sexy looks and slutty behavior -- are glorified and emulated.
Social norm is organized around it, -- witness contraception, abortion, serial marriage and divorce normalized through the courts.
It is taught in schools, just like religion should.
Suffering induced by sex is seen as necessary and strangely inspiring, -- see the hagiography of the AIDS victims.
Sexual habit, no matter how perverse, is seen as deserving of a protected status given religious denominations.
Sacrifices are given in the name of Sex. Typically it is the children that are sacrificed, although feats such as deliberately seeking an HIV infection are on record as well.
Other religion, -- e.g. Christianity -- is viewed, with horror, as idolatrous denial of the true god of Sex.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
Last Ping'O'the Night! Note Annalex's comment. Couldn't have said it better myself.
I could add just as people sometimes tithe to their church, the religion of Sex requires that we all tithe, in the form of taxes, to pay for abortions, AFDC for illegitimate children, and religion classes/Sex ed in school.
And then the inspirational stories in movies and stupid (excuse me - uplifting) magazines about who's doing who.
Freepmail me if you want on/off this pinglist.
Oh - and the sacrament of Viagra (or has it been taken off the market?).
"Pigs Really Can't Fly..."
This isn't strictly true...
It is also estimated that 80% of the population has the virus, which in itself is a frightening thought. Though there are so many subtypes, not everyone who has the virus will get cervical cancer.
Do you think in today's sex-ed classes around the country they incorporate these facts? That you can not only get pregnant from sex, AIDS, STD's, but you can also get can CANCER and die?
"Research" such as this is about as edifying as counting out and wrapping all the coins in your loose-change jar; it puts a bounce in your pocket but it is never that surprising that the jar is simply then put back in use.
Oddly, when Reagan made this ad the average male life-expectancy was about 62 years, now its almost 77 years;
he quit smoking because it was unsightly and un-presidential and whatever other influence that might have persuaded him.
I'm not sure that the extra twenty years now supposed to inhere in either abstinence from smoking or rejection of the habit to avoid the disapprobation of unlike-minded fellows will really be worth the effort.
Funny though, I thought we were talkimg about sticking something else in your mouth.
I only wish the rest of Wisconsin were a red state. :( Diana forgets Milwaukee and its eastern shore suburbs. And then there is Burlington and that area up north on the Iowa border. In fact, Wisconsin got blue-er in the last election, much to my chagrin.
Of course not. I believe that if HIV/AIDS had been treated as a public health concern back in the late 70's in San Francisco, we wouldn't have near the problem in the US that we have today. Unfortunately, Diane Feinstein, as the mayor of San Fran, thought that the political support of homosexuals was more important than public health.
Risky Sex Habits Linked to Early Death, Disability
Yes, if he hadn't smoked in his youth, Ronald Reagan might have lived to be 100 instead of just 96. Of course, adding years to a life lived as an Alzheimer's patient may not have all that much appeal, come to think of it.
How on earth did anti-smoking get to be a liberal issue and anti-promiscuity become a conservative issue? Smoking and promiscuity both cause a tremendous amount of misery. Smokers lose 13 years of life on average and 10% of smokers die of lung cancer; while gay men lose 20 years of life on average. I might suggest that opposition to smoking and opposition to sexual promiscuity should both be conservative issues, pro-life issues (pro-life in the most literal sense of the phrase).
What was that about the "wages of sin" again?
Just Damn....I guess that Trapeze I had installed has to go now.
Earliest cervical cancer used to be found in those 26 years old. Now it is found down into the teen years because of early, promiscuous sex.
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