On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:20:49 GMT, Bernard Hubbard
 wrote:


>If you think that your little essy on the danger of acquiring
>HIV/AIDS is the *true* nature of homosexuality, you are more
>deluded than I gave you credit for.  You gave a list of 14
>behaviours that are dangerous but you failed to include the
>most common behaviour of gay men that totally avoids risky
>sex and that is the great number of gay men that have *safe
>sex* only.


Oh, yeah, boy! Tell us about it!

 Advanced Study Details Sex Partners' HIV Disclosure

         Gay men are much less likely than their heterosexual
counterparts to tell sex partners that they're infected with the AIDS
virus, according to research released late in May and reported by
Gay.Com/PlanetOut.Com.

         More than 40% of HIV-positive gay men surveyed said they'd
had sex within the last six months without disclosing their
status. And 16% acknowledged having unprotected anal sex without
disclosure, although few said they knew their partners were
HIV-negative.

         By contrast, just 19% of heterosexual men and 17% of
heterosexual women surveyed -- all HIV-positive -- said they'd
recently had sex without disclosing their HIV status.

         But the news isn't all bad, said study lead author Dr. Dan
Ciccarone, assistant professor of family and community medicine at the
University of California at San Francisco. "Most people are either
disclosing or are abstinent. That's across all the groups."

         Researchers have examined the disclosure rates among
HIV-positive people before. But this study, which appears in the June
2003 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, is unusual
because it compares heterosexuals to gay men, Ciccarone said.

         The findings come from a 1998 national survey of 1,397
HIV-positive people -- 606 gay or bisexual men, 287 heterosexual men
and 504 heterosexual women. (It is common for years to pass before
some research is published.)

         Gay men were more sexually active than heterosexuals: Only
28% of gay men were abstinent over the previous six months, compared
to 39% of the straight men and 37% of the straight women.

         But gay men were not as devoted to being up front about their
HIV status.  Only 28% said they don't have sex without disclosing that
they're HIV-positive, compared to 41%  of the straight men and 48% of
the straight women.

         Ciccarone said it's important to note that while many gay men
didn't disclose their HIV status, their partners often didn't open up
about theirs, either. It's a kind of "mutual non-disclosure," he said.

         It's not surprising that many gay men don't like to talk
about their HIV status, said Michael Allerton, head of HIV policy with
the Kaiser Permanente health plan in Northern California. "They know
about alienation and rejection, all of those things they've
experienced all their lives," he said. "It's so much harder to
disclose anything as a gay man."

         Health officials can use the study findings to figure out
better ways to encourage more openness about HIV status, Ciccarone
said.

         But he added that any prevention efforts must go both ways.
"It would be an irresponsible public health stance to put the onus
just on the HIV-positive person to say that 'You should disclose,'" he
said.

			******

Homosexuals inherently and consistently lie by every means possible
including "omission" of their HIV/AIDS to sustain their high level of
promiscuity.
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