11-24-2004, 08:32 PM
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She's so fine.....
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: SE Michigan
Posts: 8,757
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Originally Posted by JakeCJB
You are scapegoating gays(by the way msm are not necessarily gay). If heterosexuals want to stem HIV/AIDS they should practice protected sex and eliminate the single biggest risk factor, which is unprotected sex. The same thing applies gays. Once the genie is out of the bottle, it doesn't matter who rubbed the lamp.
The CDC also cites poverty as a risk factor, and states African Americans are at higher risk.
You can't say, as I believe you have tried to previously, that homosexuality causes HIV in the same way that smoking causes lung cancer. There is a direct link between smoking itself and lung cancer. HIV is a sexually transmitted virus. Homosexuality is not the way HIV is transmitted. Sex itself is the way HIV is transmitted, in the same way that smoking causes lung cancer.
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I'm amazed that you want to continue arguing that homosexuality isn't the major cause of HIV spreading in the US. Here's some more data for you to chew on.
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Researchers ID Risk Factors for Heterosexual HIV Transmission
Source: http://www.ucsf.edu/daybreak/1997/08/826_aids.htm
In the nation's largest and longest study of heterosexual HIV transmission, UCSF researchers found transmission rates remain extremely low. Those rates, they said, could be even lower by eliminating certain risk factors identified by the study.
The researchers estimate the odds of a an HIV-positive male infecting a female partner in an unprotected sexual encounter is about 9 in 10,000. The chances are even lower for female-to-male infections. Females are about eight times more likely than males to become infected by their HIV-positive partners, says study principal investigator Nancy Padian, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences.
The study also found that the practice of anal sex, lack of condom use, injection drug use and the presence of a sexually transmitted disease (STD) are the best predictors of infection.
"We now know many of the risk factors that affect the likelihood of transmission between infected individuals and their heterosexual partners," she says. "Elimination or modification of these factors would result in reduced transmission of HIV."
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Obviously, it does matter who rubs the bottle.
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