Posted: Apr 30, 2012 4:21 pm
Thommo wrote:Sorry are you actually suggesting that gay men don't have more anal penetrative intercourse than gay women?
I'm telling you it is a personal choice to have anal sex or not. Being gay does not guarantee that you will have anal sex.
Not does it guarantee that you have unprotected and/or promiscuous sex, two factors who have far more impact than being in a same-sex relationship.
Thommo wrote:Or are you questioning the suggestion that "gay men have more anal sex than non gay men, because they are gay"?
I'm refuting the notion that sexuality increases the risk to STDs.
Thommo wrote:I'm struggling to understand how you can't see this, it's about as clear a chain of causation as can exist.
No a chain of correlation exist. The actual factors that increase the risk for STDs is ,in order, having promiscuous, unprotected anal sex. Promiscuity and protection are the risk factors. Someone who practices monogamous protected anal sex has far less, almost 0% chance of getting STDs, whereas someone who has unprotected and/or promiscuous 'heterosexual' sex has a higher risk.
Thommo wrote:Gay men have more anal sex, because they are gay
AGain this is an overly simplistic view.
Again, unprotected anal sex has a higher rate of HIV transmission.Thommo wrote:-> anal sex has a higher rate of transmission of HIV ->
Thommo wrote:therefore gay men who have unprotected and/or promiscuous sex, have a higher prevalence of HIV.