Post by teancum79 on Nov 8, 2005 9:55:22 GMT -5
Okay so I've been debating some issues on another board and this guy was claming that being a homosexual was just as healthy as being heterosexual and that everyone agreed on that. Anyways I did some digging as I knew that there was an increased risk for aids and I figured there had to be other problems as well.
Here is what I found:
Homosexuality and Health
Little is heard today about the devastating health effects of homosexual promiscuity. A panoply of diseases-not only the well-publicized AIDS but lesser-known scourges such as hepatitis A, B, and C; herpes; cytomegalovirus; gay bowel syndrome; amoebiasis; anal warts and anal cancer; shigellosis; chlamydia; gonorrhea; and syphilis-serve to truncate the average gay's life expectancy to roughly 50 years. And these pestilences not only shorten lives but sharply erode quality of life.
Behavioral disorders and mental illnesses also are far more prevalent among homosexuals than their heterosexual counterparts. High rates of alcoholism, drug addiction, "spousal" abuse, depression, and suicide all militate against living to old age.
Gay sex is of particular concern because among homosexuals, promiscuity is more the rule than the exception. For example, the December 1989 Archives of Internal Medicine refers to a Los Angeles report's finding that gay males averaged over 20 sex partners annually. Some studies show that those in supposedly "steady" relationships are even more promiscuous, engaging in dozens of trysts a year outside the relationship.
A 1998 study that appeared in Psychological Reports used four databases to investigate the life spans of gays versus heterosexuals. It concluded that the homosexual lifestyle sliced 20 to 30 years from practitioners' life expectancy. Supporting this was a 1994 obituary investigation, which determined that the median age of death for gay males was 42 and for lesbians 49. It ran in the Omega Journal of Death and Dying.
Medical statistics show the gay community to be virtually awash in pathogens:
* Over 50 percent of all homosexual men are carriers of the human papilloma virus, which produces anal warts and can often lead to anal cancer, according to Stephen Goldstone, assistant clinical professor of surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center, speaking at a 1999 Gay Men's Health Summit in Boulder, Colorado.
* Male homosexuals are about 1,000 times more likely to acquire AIDS than the general population (National Center for Infectious Diseases, 1992).
* A survey of more than 2,300 gays in New York and three other cities found that 37 percent of the men and 14 percent of the women reported having a non-HIV sexually transmitted infection (Washington Blade, October 9, 1998). Ten years earlier, male homosexuals (less than 1 percent of the population) accounted for 50 percent of U.S. syphilis cases (Atlantic Monthly, January 1988).
* Hepatitis B is about five times more prevalent among homosexuals than among heterosexual men, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1976-1994 (American Journal of Public Health).
* A young gay man has about a 50 percent chance of acquiring the AIDS virus by middle age, and the incidence of gonorrhea rose 74 percent among homosexuals from 1993-1996 (New York Times, November 23,1997).
Behavioral and mental disorders are likewise widespread in the gay community. Among the evidence is the following:
* A 1992 Boston study found that of 262 gay male subjects, 49 percent used drugs with sex, 9 percent weekly; 57 percent used alcohol with sex, 9 percent weekly (AIDS).
* Forty-six percent of homosexual and bisexual youths in a 1997 study of Massachusetts highschool students had attempted suicide in the preceding year (Newsweek).
* Forty percent of male homosexual subjects had a history of major depressive disorder (Archives of General Psychiatry, February 1991; Comprehensive Psychiatry, May/June 1993).
That information never seems to show up at the it’s okay to be gay parties.
I finaly found the little twerp. The above information was from a side bar the the article
"Promiscuous Plague"
Karen Testerman. The World & I. Washington: Mar 2004.Vol.19, Iss. 3; pg. 26, 8 pgs
Here is what I found:
Homosexuality and Health
Little is heard today about the devastating health effects of homosexual promiscuity. A panoply of diseases-not only the well-publicized AIDS but lesser-known scourges such as hepatitis A, B, and C; herpes; cytomegalovirus; gay bowel syndrome; amoebiasis; anal warts and anal cancer; shigellosis; chlamydia; gonorrhea; and syphilis-serve to truncate the average gay's life expectancy to roughly 50 years. And these pestilences not only shorten lives but sharply erode quality of life.
Behavioral disorders and mental illnesses also are far more prevalent among homosexuals than their heterosexual counterparts. High rates of alcoholism, drug addiction, "spousal" abuse, depression, and suicide all militate against living to old age.
Gay sex is of particular concern because among homosexuals, promiscuity is more the rule than the exception. For example, the December 1989 Archives of Internal Medicine refers to a Los Angeles report's finding that gay males averaged over 20 sex partners annually. Some studies show that those in supposedly "steady" relationships are even more promiscuous, engaging in dozens of trysts a year outside the relationship.
A 1998 study that appeared in Psychological Reports used four databases to investigate the life spans of gays versus heterosexuals. It concluded that the homosexual lifestyle sliced 20 to 30 years from practitioners' life expectancy. Supporting this was a 1994 obituary investigation, which determined that the median age of death for gay males was 42 and for lesbians 49. It ran in the Omega Journal of Death and Dying.
Medical statistics show the gay community to be virtually awash in pathogens:
* Over 50 percent of all homosexual men are carriers of the human papilloma virus, which produces anal warts and can often lead to anal cancer, according to Stephen Goldstone, assistant clinical professor of surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center, speaking at a 1999 Gay Men's Health Summit in Boulder, Colorado.
* Male homosexuals are about 1,000 times more likely to acquire AIDS than the general population (National Center for Infectious Diseases, 1992).
* A survey of more than 2,300 gays in New York and three other cities found that 37 percent of the men and 14 percent of the women reported having a non-HIV sexually transmitted infection (Washington Blade, October 9, 1998). Ten years earlier, male homosexuals (less than 1 percent of the population) accounted for 50 percent of U.S. syphilis cases (Atlantic Monthly, January 1988).
* Hepatitis B is about five times more prevalent among homosexuals than among heterosexual men, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1976-1994 (American Journal of Public Health).
* A young gay man has about a 50 percent chance of acquiring the AIDS virus by middle age, and the incidence of gonorrhea rose 74 percent among homosexuals from 1993-1996 (New York Times, November 23,1997).
Behavioral and mental disorders are likewise widespread in the gay community. Among the evidence is the following:
* A 1992 Boston study found that of 262 gay male subjects, 49 percent used drugs with sex, 9 percent weekly; 57 percent used alcohol with sex, 9 percent weekly (AIDS).
* Forty-six percent of homosexual and bisexual youths in a 1997 study of Massachusetts highschool students had attempted suicide in the preceding year (Newsweek).
* Forty percent of male homosexual subjects had a history of major depressive disorder (Archives of General Psychiatry, February 1991; Comprehensive Psychiatry, May/June 1993).
That information never seems to show up at the it’s okay to be gay parties.
I finaly found the little twerp. The above information was from a side bar the the article
"Promiscuous Plague"
Karen Testerman. The World & I. Washington: Mar 2004.Vol.19, Iss. 3; pg. 26, 8 pgs
You can just click the "modify" button at the top of your post and add the link.
What about bisexuals?
