Homosexuality, Homophobia and Evlolution

[MMMMMM]

Well you're ignorant and unwilling to look it up. The country in Africa that is hardest hit by AIDS has an astoundingly high rate of anal sex among heterosexuals--and I'm surprised you haven't read this somewhere by now. Also, it's not the sort of thing one is likely to misunderstand when reading it. Your ridiculous predilection for political correctness is causing you to make a very erroneous assumption on this point.

[ACPlayer]

You are offering it as a conjecture for the reason for high AIDs in Africa. Back it up please, or i will continue to right it off as another example of your bigotted viewpoints.

The real reasons for AIDS in Africa is a lack of understanding of the need for safe sex practices, anal, vaginal or oral. Until recently, Mbeki in S. Africa refused to even accept that AIDs existed.

The moral majority in this country fights tooth and nail to prevent education, tying up funding of programs usually over some aspect of the abortion battle.

Brad and you need to get over your homophobia and understand that AIDS is an equal opportunity killer.

[MMMMMM]

"You are offering it as a conjecture for the reason for high AIDs in Africa. Back it up please, or i will continue to right it off as another example of your bigotted viewpoints."

Write it off, then--I'm just telling you what I've read. Could be what I've read is wrong or out of date, too. Also, I don't have any bigoted viewpoints--I just try to look at the facts, the way things are--rather than how I think things are supposed to be. Some people prefer to start with how they think things are supposed to be...but that is the common path to delusion.

"Brad and you need to get over your homophobia and understand that AIDS is an equal opportunity killer."

I'm not homophobic nor have I written anything to indicate homophobic views. If you think I have, perhaps you should try re-reading what I've written with an open mind, and try taking things more literally.

Also, obviously AIDS is an equal opportunity killer, but certain behaviors carry higher risks. Also, when talking about averages, certain groups are higher risk groups for AIDS. Get over being offended and just deal with the facts please.

[nicky g]

"Well whatever it is due to, it is true that hetero anal sex is a rampant practice in that country or in that part of Africa (far more so than in the US for example). Look it up if you don't believe me"

Whatever you do, don't look it up on a search engine when you're at work.

[ACPlayer]

IN today's NYTimes as reported from the CDC

New HIV exposures in US:

gay: 42.1%
straight: 35.2%
Needles: 17.1%

If you have been f'ing around go get tested.

[MMMMMM]

LOL

[andyfox]

Well, he and his mentor bad old Joe sure f*cked a lot of 'em.

[andyfox]

"an astoundingly high rate of anal sex"

I don't know what I wanted to post about this. Jut struck me as an unusual turn of phrase. I guess it's that what would be astoundingly high to one person wouldn't be to another. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[brad]

a careful read will almost certainly reveal that that is the *increase* in cases in the subgroups.

i'll let others elaborate.

[MMMMMM]

higher than other regions or countries, andy...maybe 'astoundingly' isn't the best word...feel free to substitute another if you wish...