I have heard numerous connections between being gay and AIDS. Why is sexual orientation a factor in concocting this disease? How would it even be transmitted (without being too graphic)? Wouldn't heterosexuals have as much a chance as homosexuals? How did the rumor start, anyways?
2007-05-17 10:26:39 · 9 answers · asked by John Doe IV 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
Gay men were the first people diagnosed with AIDS. They weren't the first to get it by any means. Plenty of heterosexuals no doubt died without ever being diagnosed. They aren't the largest population that have it, either - heterosexuals are (by proxy of the fact that homosexuals only make up roughly 10% of the population). They sought answers and medical care. They had the disposable income to seek out the best doctors.
During the time period before it was recognized - it was the time in American history when being gay wasn't something that had to be hidden away, men (and women) felt free to socialize - and they were promiscuous. I had MANY gay friends - I know! Bathhouses, Fire Island, Studio 54, sex sex sex! Hundreds of years of repression unleashed a mad fury of freedom for them.
I lost more than my share of friends in the early and mid-80s. Both male and female. It had more to do with the time than anything else.
Homosexuality isn't a factor in concocting the disease. If you look at it from the proper perspective.. it's the gay men that saved it being more endemic in this country than it is. Without them, it would have spread unchecked through the population.
They were the canary in the mine. (And that's how the rumor started, friend.)
2007-05-19 02:31:35 · answer #1 · answered by pepper 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a stereotype. It is true that there is a higher incidence of HIV/AIDS in gay and bisexual men in the United States. Since HIV is transmitted through bodily fluids, it's easily transmitted during sexual intercourse (both with heterosexuals and homosexuals; it can also be transmitted through intravenous drug use, when people use unsterilized needles that an infected person has already used). I'm not sure exactly why there's a higher incidence of HIV in gay men in the US. I do know that it's different in other countries, though. In some African countries there's a huge problem with married women contracting HIV from their philandering husbands. It's just as easy for a heterosexual to contract HIV as it is for a homosexual; unsafe sexual practices are bad news for anyone, regardless of sexual orientation.
2007-05-17 10:40:34 · answer #2 · answered by rockdahouse85 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
certain you should have sex with someone who has AIDS with the intention to get it. that's why it truly is referred to as a "sexually transmitted ailment." human beings imagine that because at the same time as AIDS became got here across it became discovered contained in the gay inhabitants of u.s.. that does no longer propose that AIDS did not result heterosexuals. purely that it became first stated there. yet human beings did not care to study on and they in simple terms blamed it on the gay community. the actuality of the count is that AIDS afflicts each community by the board. (except for some remoted tribes that look to have advanced an immunity.)
2016-11-04 06:39:37 · answer #3 · answered by gripp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
please add to the list of possible transmission, tattoos and piercings with reused equipment. too many people forget these are also ways to come in contact with STD's or blood borne pathogens. Any tear in the skin can allow transmission, but what has been stated is where the rumor started. With the first known outbreaks, gay men were the highest known infected. Today, however it can be anyone.
2007-05-17 16:26:14 · answer #4 · answered by julvrug 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
When HIV/AIDS was first discovered it was believed to only affect homosexual men (or gay men).
The disease was originally dubbed GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, but health authorities soon realized that nearly half of the people identified with the syndrome were not homosexual men. In 1982, the CDC introduced the term AIDS to describe the newly recognized syndrome, though it was still casually referred to as GRID.
Homosexual men tend to contract the virus easier then heterosexual men because homosexual men have anal sex. The skin around the anus is very thin and can tear very easily, which can cause a person to contract the virus. Since heterosexual men don't usually receive anal sex their chances are much lower at contracting the STD. They can still get it from vaginal or oral sex though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiv#Origin_and_discovery
2007-05-17 11:02:43 · answer #5 · answered by Alli 7 · 6⤊ 4⤋
the anal passage is easier to get small tears in it that make it easy for the hiv to enter into the body so anyone having anal sex is at a greater risk at catching std's. Also anyone can get an std. Std's don't care about your color, age, sex or sexual preference.
2007-05-17 10:36:28 · answer #6 · answered by iwill 4 · 6⤊ 2⤋
baby aids have no pacific person
2007-05-17 11:37:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
For many people, AIDS is associated with sexual deviance, and for those same people, homosexuality is a form of such deviance.
2007-05-17 10:35:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 8⤋
well gay people usually have anal sex without condoms.Thats the only hole.
2007-05-17 16:55:19 · answer #9 · answered by cooldav985 f 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋