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AIDS
hello everyone, i heard some of my friends talking on this subject and one of them went into this big debate how gay people maybe the cause of aids, since they put their penis's in other mens buttholes and can pick up germs and diseases from there, could this be true?
I was just wondering not that i'm gay, i'm surely straight 100% guaranteed. But, if this is true then i was thinking i could use it for my R.E project.
IS THIS A POSSIBILLITY? THAT GAY PEOPLE ARE THE ONES WHO STARTED OFF THE AID'S DISEASE? (I'm not try to accuse gay people, just curious)
thanks in advance..please reply :(
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no, the disease aids was originally discovered in rhesus monkeys. it has nothing to do with gays, though you can pass it on in that fashion. you can get aids from getting a blood transfusion, if they haven't tested the blood you're getting for aids. it happened in the eighties and stuff. it can be passed through sexual contact. so no, gay people didn't "start" it- it's actually a primate disease that was passed to humans. kind of like how you can get a very rare strain of virus from horses. and if you want to think of it this way... gay sex is no more susceptible than heterosexual sex, because there's still contact, regardless of same sex or not. oh, and this is just a side note because i had to do a little project on hiv/aids last year- hiv is what you can get from other people, and it destroys your immune system, and then you get aids from that. so you don't pass aids from person to person, you pass hiv from person to person and then if a person is infected with hiv they could possibly become infected with aids too. i didn't know that until last year, and i think it's kind of interesting. anyway, hope i helped :)
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No. Not in the least.
In 2006 The World Health Organization estimated that 75% of adult HIV infections world-wide were infected by heterosexual sex.
HIV got a powerful hold a large part of the gay community back when EVERYONE, both heterosexuals and homosexuals, didn't have very good information about the dangerous of sexually transmitted disease.
There was a real feeling among people just before the AID’s epidemic began that because of a more socially acceptable gay community and developments like the birth control pill and abortion techniques, that the only thing you had to worry about from sex was pregnancy, and even that was ‘fixable’.
They were dead wrong.
But AID's is not a 'gay disease'. Frankly, that is a deeply moronic and immature thing for your friends to be saying. That is a myth and it is spread by bigots who have an irrational loathing and fear of homosexuality, not any actual medical knowledge. Women account for over 45% of the AID’s cases in America today, and they aint all lesbians. In Africa, Asia and India, HIV has always been and still is a heterosexual disease.
If AID’s is God’s Wrath On Gays, God appears to be somewhat inept at determining sexual orientation.
There is only ONE germ that causes HIV, and that would be the HIV virus. You get it from an infected person. Doesn't matter if you are having vaginal sex, anal sex or sharing a needle with them. The risk is basically the same.
Take a ganger at these, it might help clear some things up:
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Please! For the sake of everyone at risk and everyone infected, the next time you hear someone say something that dumb about HIV, set them straight! You might be adding years to thier lives.
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It's believed that AIDS originated from human-to-primate contact, and eventually spread from human-to-human.
The only reason people think that gay men are the origin of AIDS is because anal sex has a higher risk of infection than regular sex.
So no, gay people were not responsible for AIDS.
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