why is it that everyone thinks AIDS is a gay disease?

Question

when the first ever case was in a straight woman?

and when far more heterosexuals get it than homosexuals?

and considering that the group who's infected the most is straight women?

cre8ed2worship: uhm, no it didn't. that was a study that was proven false.

Answer 1

You should've been around during the early eighties when AIDS first started making its debut because it was mostly gays that had it. Anyone can get it though.

Answer 2

AIDS is not a "gay disease" but it was initially spread in the United States via the gay community and attempts to block it's spread were met with accusation of "homophobia". At the same time, the Reagan White House did absolutely nothing about the spread of AIDS simply because it was primarily targeting homosexuals.

So while AIDS has nothing to do with homosexuality, (it's a disease transmitted through blood), the rise of AIDS in the United States cannot be separated from homosexuality.

Answer 3

In America, 1980's, the gay populations saw the most rampant spead of the disease do to the fact it was mainly a homosexual sex act that was riskier than others. You are correct, prostitutes and bi-sexuals share much of the blame for their practices as well. The safest demographic statistically IS the heterosexual christian married population. FACT.

Answer 4

You are wrong about the straight woman thing: Of course both websites contradict each other so they don't really figure out much.

"The first human known to be infected with HIV was a man from Kinshasa in the nearby country of Congo who had his blood stored in 1959 as part of a medical study, decades before scientists knew the AIDS virus existed.

Presumably, someone in rural Cameroon was bitten by a chimp or was cut while butchering one and became infected with the ape virus. That person passed it to someone else."

Earliest known cases:

"In 1983 a group of British researchers published a letter in The Lancet about a sailor from Manchester who died of AIDS-like symptoms in 1959. (11) Although his tissue tested positive for HIV, the result has since been called into question. (12)

In 1988, The Lancet reported that HIV was found in tissue samples from a Norwegian sailor along with his wife and daughter, all of whom died of AIDS-like causes circa 1976. The father had sailed to African ports and had contracted sexually transmitted diseases at least twice. Tissues samples from the family were tested and all three were found to have been infected by a strain of HIV-1 that is common to West Africa. (13)

In the United States, the oldest suspected case of AIDS dates back to 1969. In that year, an African -American teenager from St. Louis died of AIDS-like symptoms. HIV or a closely related virus was found in tissue samples from the young man that had been frozen at the time of his death. This case indicates that HIV was present in the United States before the 1970s."

Answer 5

You are right that it is not a "Gay Disease," and people should know that. However I don't think that the demographics of who is at risk are written in stone. In Africa women (prostitutes) would get it from truckers and spread it to other obviously straight men etc etc. This is because in Africa all good are trucked over the road and their are a lot of lonely truckers. With air freight in the US their are much fewer people involved, just to make a comparison.

Answer 6

NO, it can't incubate in just anyone, or anywhere. Promiscuous behavior, whether gay or straight, is the easiest way to get it. Dirty drug use is another easy way, otherwise, you are relatively safe from getting it. The safety factor is in what you do with your life. There are always quirks of fate of course, such as babies born of a promiscuous parent, or a careless doctor. If you are straight, and faithful to one, you have nothing to worry about, except maybe "emerods."

Answer 7

EVERYONE doesn't think its a gay disease. we are not in the 80s anymore.
maybe ignorant exclusionary fundamentalists or homophobes think so, but that is only to forward their cause.

actually, however, proportionally speaking, i dont think FAR MORE heteros get it than homos. Percentages-wise, it would be about equal, if not slightly higher for homosexuals.

Answer 8

When AIDS was first introduced in the 80's, it hit the homosexual community first and hardest. People tend to remember that.

But in fact, AIDS was first given to some monkeys in Africa by the WHO. There, it transferred to the human population. Only after it hit the US did it attack homosexuals. Just another example of how ethnocentric we are.

Answer 9

The reason straight women get AIDS more than Homosexuals is because the Bi-sexual men out there are cowards. They don't care who they infect along as they can get off.

Answer 10

because most gays have it

then the bisexual men passed it on to the women, and the prostitutes passed it to heterosexual men, and so on....

it wulve stayed with the gays if bisexual men didnt exist, or if blood wasnt used in other ppl without checkin for this gay diesise

so in other words too much sex passed it to the heterosexuals but it wus inteded as a gay disease