Can't find any Aus stats chuck,  but to answer the other,28%, hetro stat - noobody ever said that hetros were excluded from harm by participating in what they've chosen, how-ever, there are those that say homosexuals are not harmed by their paticipation in what they choose they to do. HIV doesn't disriminate about who does what to who but to say homosexuals are exempt is just plain stoopid.

Hello, all. Talking on-topic is important. Could we please go back to the original topic? Thanks.

Are you denying the fact that homosexuality has no harmful effects on those who practice it? Or are you ducking for cover and not prepared to admit that you were/are wrong?

Hate to break it to you, but aids doesn't have a sexual orientation. It's a disease and nothing more. And unlike people, diseases don't discriminate. We're all at risk. Homosexuality didn't cause those men to get aids. Unprotected sex and or unprotected drug use did. The problem with aids isn't the sexual orientation of the person contacting it, but the fact that the people getting sick apparantly are not getting the message about the consequences of unprotected sex and dirty needles. Perhaps if we start focusing on that instead of judging these people for the types of sex they engage in, more lives might be saved.

When anyone repeats what I say, i usually accept it as a compliment but, in your case ....???? I dunno - I think you just slept.

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@justpolls wrote:

Are you denying the fact that homosexuality has no harmful effects on those who practice it? Or are you ducking for cover and not prepared to admit that you were/are wrong?

 

 

Hate to break it to you, but aids doesn't have a sexual orientation. It's a disease and nothing more. And unlike people, diseases don't discriminate. We're all at risk. Homosexuality didn't cause those men to get aids. Unprotected sex and or unprotected drug use did. The problem with aids isn't the sexual orientation of the person contacting it, but the fact that the people getting sick apparantly are not getting the message about the consequences of unprotected sex and dirty needles. Perhaps if we start focusing on that instead of judging these people for the types of sex they engage in, more lives might be saved.

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However AIDS initially was largely spread by unprotected homosexual activity. So yes, it would be incorrect to say homosexuality doesn't harm anybody

I wouldn't say homosexuals so much spread the disease as was attacked first, besides that would leave all the other harmful STI's "spread" solely by unprotected heterosexual sex.

However AIDS initially was largely spread by unprotected homosexual activity. So yes, it would be incorrect to say homosexuality doesn't harm anybody

So all sex is harmful but homosexual sex is more harmful than heterosexual sex?

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@para-slights wrote:

I wouldn't say homosexuals so much spread the disease as was attacked first, besides that would leave all the other harmful STI's "spread" solely by unprotected heterosexual sex.

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that's a strawman.

wer'e talking about homosexuality not being damaging to anyone, not even  it's own. when clearly,it is.

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@para-slights wrote:

I wouldn't say homosexuals so much spread the disease as was attacked first, besides that would leave all the other harmful STI's "spread" solely by unprotected heterosexual sex.

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that's a strawman.

 

wer'e talking about homosexuality not being damaging to anyone, not even  it's own. when clearly,it is.

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It's not the homosexuality that is harmful, it is the unprotected sex. As I said in an earlier post (and provided links) 60% ofpeople worldwide who are living with AIDS live in sub Saharan Africa and of those 60% somewhere between 90% and 99% acquired it through heterosexual contact.