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III. Health Risks of the Homosexual Lifestyle

 

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Warning: This section contains material that may not be suitable for children. Parental discretion advised.

 

When contrasted with a normal, heterosexual, monogamous relationship, homosexual behavior is fundamentally unhealthy. Anatomically, the unnatural act of anal intercourse is itself harmful, due to the fact that anal tissue is made up of cells that are highly absorbent, highly susceptible to disease and more likely to tear or rupture. The anus has a thin cellular wall, which makes it easier for infectious disease to penetrate the blood stream. And because of the difference between vaginal and anal wall structure, repeated exposure to sperm during anal intercourse has been shown to break down the body's immune system, causing even more damage.45

 

Increased risk of tissue injury, organ malfunction, and infectious disease combine with other factors to result in a significantly shortened life expectancy that is greater than smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. The medical evidence also indicates among homosexually active individuals an increased incidence of drug and/or alcohol dependence, compulsive sexual behavior, anxiety, depression, and suicide.

 

Medical Implications


1. HIV/AIDS

AIDS was originally referred to as "Gay-Related Immune Disorder" or GRID because of its high prevalence among gay men. It was changed in the early '80s as part of the agenda to normalize homosexuality in American society.

 

"We have an agenda to create a society in which homosexuality is regarded as healthy, natural and normal. To me that is the most important agenda item." Quoted in Gabriel Rotello, Sexual Ecology: AIDS and the Destiny of Gay Men46


The Centers for Disease Control reports the following about AIDS and gay men:

 

  • The rate of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men (MSM) is nine times higher than that of women and heterosexual men.47

     

  • MSM and MSM who also inject drugs account for 63 percent of the cumulative total of male AIDS cases, as of December 2001.48

     

  • Among young people aged 13-24, almost 30,000 were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. by the end of 1999. Of those, MSM made up the largest risk category. 50 percent of all new AIDS cases in 1999 were reported among young homosexuals.49 (Though homosexuals make up only 2-4 percent of the population.)


Other studies confirm these statistics:

 

  • "Thirty percent of all 20-year-old homosexual males will be HIV+ or dead of AIDS by the time they are 30."50
  • Household survey of unmarried men 18 through 29 years of age found that of 328 homosexual men 20.1 percent tested positive for HIV.51


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2. Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
The Centers for Disease Control defines HPV as the following: "the name of a group of viruses that includes more than 100 different strains or types. More than 30 of these viruses are sexually transmitted, and they can infect the genital area of men and women including the skin of the penis, vulva (area outside the vagina), or anus, and the linings of the vagina, cervix, or rectum." HPV affects 20 million Americans, and although it sometimes shows no signs or symptoms, it may lead to cancer of the cervix, vulva, vagina, anus, or penis. As with many STD's, there is no cure for HPV.

 

  • Lesbian and bisexual women have higher reported rates of risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease as well as obesity and high rates of human papilloma virus infection.52

     

  • "A San Francisco study of Gay and bisexual men revealed that HPV infection was almost universal among HIV-positive men, and that 60 percent of HIV-negative men carried HPV.53

     

  • “Most instances of anal cancer are caused by a cancer-causing strain of HPV through receptive anal intercourse. HPV infects over 90 percent of HIV-positive gay men and 65 percent of HIV-negative gay men, according to a number of recent studies.”54


3. Hepatitis

A potentially fatal disease characterized by an inflammation of the liver; can lead to liver cancer. The CDC reported in its 1998 Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report that, "Outbreaks of hepatitis A among men who have sex with men are a recurring problem in many large cities in the industrialized world."55 Other studies report the following conclusions:

 

  • Men who have sex with men are at increased risk for hepatitis B.56

     

  • "Approximately 15 percent of all new hepatitis B virus infections are among MSM."57

     

  • Women who have sexual relations with women (WSW) are at significantly higher risk for certain sexually transmitted diseases: “BV (bacterial vaginosis), hepatitis C, and HIV risk behaviors in WSW as compared with controls.”58

 

4. Other STD's

 

i. Gonorrhea is an inflammatory disease of the genital tract, but is found in the rectum and throats of homosexual men. The CDC recently reported "significant increases during 1994 to 1997 in rectal gonorrhea…among MSM", and that "gonorrhea rates in the U.S. increased by nine percent between 1997 and 1999…we have seen signs that gonorrhea is increasing among gay and bisexual men in a number of U.S. cities."59

 

ii. Syphilis is a venereal disease that initially shows minor and painless symptoms, but if left untreated, can spread throughout the body, causing serious heart abnormalities, mental disorders, blindness and death. The Archives of Internal Medicine reports that homosexuals acquire syphilis ten times more than heterosexuals.60

 

The CDC reports that those who contract syphilis face potentially deadly health consequences: "It is now known that the genital sores caused by syphilis in adults also make it easier to transmit and acquire HIV infection sexually. There is a 2- to 5-fold increased risk of acquiring HIV infection when syphilis is present."61

 

iii. Gay Bowel Syndrome, also known as "sexually transmitted gastrointestinal syndromes" by the Journal of American Medical Association. Such infections as Proctitis and Proctocolitis cause pain, rectal discharge and rectal spasms. The Sexually Transmitted Disease Information Center of JAMA concluded, "Proctitis occurs predominantly among persons who participate in anal intercourse."62

 

iv. Kaposi's Sarcoma is another gay-related disease that is caused by "Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, also known as human herpesvirus 8." Primary means of transmission is oral sex. The American Cancer Society said, "It was in part the unusual and sudden appearance of this form of KS in so many young men at the start of the AIDS epidemic that led doctors to realize that a new disease had emerged."63


Why do homosexuals have such a high rate of sexually transmitted diseases? Promiscuity is a large and common part of the homosexual lifestyle, with many men reporting hundreds of lifetime sexual partners. One study of 2,585 homosexually active men in Australia showed that more men over 50 years old reported they had 101-500 lifetime partners than any other category involving numbers of sexual partners. Only 2.7 percent reported just one lifetime sexual partner.64 Another study involving 1,500 gay men and women concluded that 45 percent of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners, with 28 percent having 1,000 or more sex partners.65

 

 

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