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--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
>
> HIV/AIDS has been associated with homosexual
> behaviour in the west precisely because mainstream
> attitudes forced it into clandestine promiscuity.
> This is now changing as we discuss the issue
> openly.
>
Mario observes:
>
I disagree. First of all there are few sex-related
incidences of HIV/AIDS among female homosexuals.
>
In north America, HIV/AIDS was associated with male
homosexual behavior because it was initially almost
exclusively found in the male homosexual community. I
read somewhere that the original incidence in north
America was traced to a male homosexual Canadian
airline steward who contracted the virus in Africa and
passed it on to his friends in the community. Since
then it has also spread to heterosexuals, but the
overwhelming number of HIV/AIDS patients in north
America are still male homosexuals.
>
Blaming homosexual promiscuity on mainstream attitudes
is also false. Mainstream attitudes have always
frowned on heterosexual extra-marital relations as
well. This has not led heterosexuals to engage in the
kind of massive, indiscriminate and often anonymous
promiscuity that is seen in parts of the male
homosexual community at places like public bath
houses, etc. which have been around forever regardless
of mainstream attitudes. Also, most female
homosexuals do not engage in the level of wholesale
promiscuity and anonymous sexual activity as many of
their male counterparts.
>
What is new in society is the growth in committed
homosexual relationships because of many more mature
individuals coming out of the closet and also because
it is far too risky in this day and age to engage in
indiscriminate sex with multiple partners.
>
None of this has anything to do with the opposition to
the use of the very clearly defined term "marriage"
for committed homosexual relationships.
>
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