Gay disease
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"gay disease" is any disease which is spread by homosexual behavior, especially the sexual behavior of homosexual men (i.e., "gays").
The gay disease of the late 1970s and early 1980s was an epidemic which afflicted homosexual men. Later it was called AIDS and attributed to HIV. It was discovered (and given its original name) by a doctor who himself was homosexual, so any notion of the name being intended to demean or stigmatize (rather than to help) is ill-formed.
Other "gay diseases" are known to medical science, and it is good health practice for all people to be aware of them:
- "Common sexual practices among gay men lead to numerous STDs and physical injuries, some of which are virtually unknown in the heterosexual population. Lesbians are also at higher risk for STDs. In addition to diseases that may be transmitted during lesbian sex, a study at an Australian STD clinic found that lesbians were three to four times more likely than heterosexual women to have sex with men who were high-risk for HIV." [1]
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Diseases affecting male homosexuals
The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency among male homosexual practitioners as a result of anal intercourse is alarming:
- Anal Cancer
- Chlamydia trachomatis
- Cryptosporidium
- Giardia lamblia
- Herpes simplex virus
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Human papilloma virus
- Isospora belli
- Microsporidia
- Gonorrhea
- Viral hepatitis types B & C
- Syphilis
Sexual transmission of some of these diseases is so rare in the exclusively heterosexual population as to be virtually unknown.[1]
Sexual politics
The term "gay disease" was applied without prejudice[2] The term was in fact coined by a physician who was himself homosexual.[Citation Needed] It was only later that the term fell into disfavor.[Citation Needed] Organizations promoting homosexuality wanted to get the public to believe that AIDS was not just a threat to promiscuous homosexual men. [3] They used slogans such as "not a gay disease" to spread this idea.
- Extremely sexually active men who had sex with large numbers of other men unknowingly helped spread HIV in the early stages of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. ... Many people, however, remain unsure whether to blame gays for AIDS or to view them as unfortunate victims in a public health nightmare. [3]
- The explosive spread of AIDS occurred when the known evidence about HIV transmission among Gay men was suppressed by the media. The medical science establishment did not speak up. HIV is most easily transmitted through anal intercourse, because the anus bleeds far more easily than the vagina. So one Gay man simply passes blood products straight on to the next. Sexually transmitted plagues have been studied scientifically ever since syphilis arose several centuries ago. We know how to limit their spread, but many Gay men have died as a result of political suppression of scientific medicine. The spread of AIDS was partly a self-inflicted wound. [4]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Health Risks of Gay Sex
- ↑ When the AIDS epidemic began officially in June 1981, it was widely considered exclusively a "gay disease." [1]
- ↑ Homosexuals and AIDS: a new approach to the illness. 1993. [2]
