Conservapedia:AFD Gay Bowel Syndrome

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Gay Bowel Syndrome, which has also been referred to a gay bowel disease, was named as an illness in 1976 by a group of New York City physicians in a private proctologic practice and it describes a number of male homosexual anorectal disorders that male homosexuals are more apt to encounter. Glen Hastings and Richard Weber in 1993 wrote the following regarding gay bowel disease in the peer reviewed medical journal American Family Physician: "The 1980s brought a recognition of gay bowel disease and its similarities to inflammatory bowel disease." The abstract for the 1976 journal article published in Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science entitled The gay bowel syndrome: clinico-pathologic correlation in 260 cases describes gay bowel syndrome in the following manner:

Keep The article Gay Bowel Syndrome cites a 2004 article by Medscape saying that gay bowel syndrome is still a concern. More importantly, given the lethality of HIV and its connection with proctitus/gay bowel syndrome the article could save lives.[1] I know Wikipedia would definitely censor this article because the liberal gay activists hate the term "gay bowel syndrome" and have been trying to get the medical establishment to not use the term because it strong associates homosexuality with disease. However, I do think that Conservapedia should warn its readers of the dangers of homosexual activity especially since the Bible states that homosexuality is wrong.Conservative 19:30, 3 October 2007 (EDT)

Keep. Another instance of the corruption of "science" and the professional healtcare community to serve a politcal agenda. Rob Smith 20:34, 3 October 2007 (EDT)

Delete. Everybody already knows that homosexuals are at higher risk for HIV/AIDS and other diseases; there is no reason to belabor the point by inserting pornographic content on a website viewed by many young people. DanH 19:31, 3 October 2007 (EDT)

I quoted medical journals. There is nothing pornographic about medical terminology. Also, I don't believe that homosexuals know they are at greater risk in respect to certain practices. The media certainly doesn't tell them this and mainly conservative websites and medical journals and medical websites do. Conservative 19:36, 3 October 2007 (EDT)

Delete because it was abandoned as a term by the medical community in the 1980s. It described symptoms that were not limited to gays, not limited to the bowels, and not actually a syndrome.ConserveATory 19:38, 3 October 2007 (EDT)

Conservatory, the term was not abandoned by the medical community. The article Gay Bowel Syndrome cites Medscape which used the term in 2004. Also here are two other present sources which mention the term: http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?gay+bowel+syndrome and http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Gay_bowel_syndrome Conservative 19:44, 3 October 2007 (EDT)

DELETE*Conservative, who is your medical advisor? PalMD? Have you gone out of your mind here? Andy deleted articles like this one that Doc did! --şŷŝôρ-₮K^{/Ṣρёаќǃ} 19:39, 3 October 2007 (EDT)

TK, like this one? Could you be more specific? What is wrong with directly quoting medical journals? Is there anything pornographic about quoting medical journals? Do perverts hang out in medical libraries anxiously awaiting the next Journal of the American Medical Association publication? Lets be realistic here. I am certainly not for creating pornography on Conservapedia and quoting medical journals is not pornographic. I think this is especially so since the article merely gives the effects of activities and doesn't describe those activities. Certainly we should not censor the effects of immoral activities (for example, Gay Bowel Syndrome or AIDS ). Conservative 19:54, 3 October 2007 (EDT)

• This is your marketing plan? Putting up Troll Bait? --şŷŝôρ-₮K^{/Ṣρёаќǃ} 20:00, 3 October 2007 (EDT)

DELETEIf something like this, this inflammatory, and this disgusting, is to be put up, it should be put up by a doctor. If Conservative can front medical credentials, keep it. Otherwise, this does nothing more than anger people. Conservapedia's (unwritten) POV shouldn't be allowed to run rampant over the "family friendly" commandment.-MichaelS 20:21, 3 October 2007 (EDT)

• DELETE If only the article gave some clear indication of that, Rob. But it doesn't. I have suffered from Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the past, and presently from Lupus. Will you also be adding scholarly articles about those maladies as well? Or is the idea here to merely be provocative, to titillate and give a wink and a nod because you have a friend, or read on some page that titles with "Gay" in them bang web hits? Given your past production, I don't see a great interest on your part on medical issues. --şŷŝôρ-₮K^{/Ṣρёаќǃ} 20:37, 3 October 2007 (EDT)