This is not a loaded question. I really want to know. I know that straight people have unprotected sex too. Why is it so prevalent among gay men? There are so many ads in gay magazines for HIV/AIDS medications but I've never seen any in "straight" magazines. The New York Times has written articles on this. What is going on? Why is it so prevalent among people with this lifestyle?
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1 :
tearing in the entry point of copulation (their rear end holes get tore up when the do it in the bum = fluids entering the bloodstream easily, k?) plus they tend to be promiscuous
2 :
lots of unprotected sex. I had a gay roommate and alot of his friends were positive from having lots of casual sex without protection.
3 :
because gaymen can't stop putting there package where it does not belong!!
4 :
because gay people don't have to worry about pregnancy so they usually don't wear protection more often then straight people do
5 :
Well they are mostly sluts, i dont know how else to put it..... Most gay men will find a partner off the web or myspace, they meet up and have sex... most of them has unprotected sex....
6 :
Actually, the reality of this is that IT'S NOT. It's NOT more prevalent among gays than straight people, it's only about 40% gays and 60% heterosexuals. The reason gays get more attention over this topic is because in the 60's they were blamed because they reported it more and were more openly tested. Don't believe this nonsense! Anyone can get HIV/AIDS. However, anal sex can lead to more tearing, and since homosexual couples cannot have vaginal intercourse, there is a higher risk if they are having sex with an infected person. Then again, so is anyone when they have anal sex with an infected person.
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Sorry this will be graphic. The skin of the anus is so much weaker and susceptible to tears than the vagina is. Sorry, it's true. A vagina is meant to take it, not an anus. Therefore HIV can get into the bloodstream easier if the skin is weaker. So it's not being gay that makes you more susceptible to getting AIDS, it's having anal sex with someone infected! But I guess that leads back to since the only sex gays can have is anal, they are more likely to get AIDS than a person with the option of doing it vaginally.
8 :
You are misinformed, it is actually higher among heterosexuals.
9 :
The main reason it is so prevalent among gay men (and it was first identified in gay men more than 20 years ago), is that risk of transmission of HIV through anal sex is the highest among all sexual activities, due to the high risk of bleeding, as someone explained above. That said, over the past several years, HIV has actually become much more prevalent in heterosexual women than in gay men.
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Gay men were the first to rally around HIV and issues to help friends that were infected, this was over 25 years ago. If the gay population had not been so proactive we would not have gotten as far as we have in education and medical interventions. Yes there is a new mind set among younger gay men, with the advancement of medications they are not worried about dying as they use to be. There is also a mind set that "I'm gonna get it so I might as well get it and get it over". Yet the gay population is not on the highest risk right now- it's the heterosexual population. A lot do not think they are at risk and do not bother to test. People can be HIV+ for 10-12 years and not bother testing, because they do not feel they were at risk. WHere the gay population is great about testing and testing often.
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