If only people would stop behavior that causes TB, like breathing behavior, and coughing behavior, we wouldn't have tuberculosis in third world countries like Kazakstan. Someone teach those people to hold their breath already!
2007-12-12 04:05:58 · 12 answers · asked by brickity hussein brack 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Point being that people have sex. It's a fact of life. We need to come up with a better AIDS prevention plan than sending ministers to Africa to tell millions of people that they can never have sex with abstainance programs.
2007-12-12 04:07:19 · update #1
Okay, I apologize for the wording of that last note. I wasn't advocating that people have sex with abstainance programs, that wouldn't be possible because abstainance programs aren't physical in that way, but you get the idea.
2007-12-12 04:08:29 · update #2
Having sex in a particular country in Africa that has a high percentage of HIV positive folks is "high risk sexual behavior". Are you saying htat EVERYONE in those countries can't have sex?
2007-12-12 04:11:39 · update #3
Last I checked, you could get AIDS from having sex with one partner, do you guys know something I don't?
2007-12-12 04:14:04 · update #4
How did they get AIDS? Oh, I don't know, maybe they were born with it?
Or maybe they had sex with another person before me, I can only control my own behavior, and if you think that I'll pass up the love of my life just because she isn't a virgin you're living in the 1600's. Did you check your wife for a hymen before the wedding?
2007-12-12 04:17:00 · update #5
So, in other words, you are comparing breathing with high-risk sexual activity. Let me try to point out the numerous logical errors in that argument:
1. Everyone has to breathe. Not everyone has to have sex with more than one partner
2. Having sex with one partner almost nullifies your chances of getting AIDS. And unlike stopping breathing, it is very easy to do.
Starting to get the drift? One of these actions (breathing, high-risk sexual behavior) is 100% voluntary and can be stopped at any time. The other is not.
Therefore, if you get AIDS, it is YOUR fault, and not with TB.
----OK. Let's say 99% of Africa has AIDS. If you have sex with only one partner, and that partner has sex with only you, explain how either of you get AIDS?
I'm listening. I will be VERY interested in this answer!! Apparently you know something that science doesn't!
--P.S. I never mentioned homosexuals, although everyone seems to think I did. Maybe they just can't read very well.
2007-12-12 04:09:45 · answer #1 · answered by Free Thinker A.R.T. ††† 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Interesting that you chose TB, a disease all but wiped out in the US until AIDS brought it back in drug resistant form.
I guess I'm somewhere between the two of you on this one. I will not characterize risky sexual behaviors as natural as breathing. I also do not believe that humanity needs to pick and choose whom it will try to cure.
I have spent time around people with AIDS. Funny how all you think about is that they are dying of a terrible disease. How they got it isn't as important as the fact a person is sick and dying.
2007-12-12 04:31:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The real question here is why are you insulting people for giving you sincere replies? As to circumcision preventing pleasure while masturbating you really are naive to think that it might. Circumcised or not, masturbation has been going on with mankind since early man figured out it provides pleasure and sexual relief and it will go on, circumcised or not, as long as mankind exists. And pleasure has nothing to do with a man being either circumcised or not when it comes to masturbation. There are no provable records as any religious doctrine in any religion that I've ever studied that claims as it's motivations that circumcision was commanded by that religion to discourage masturbation. If you can provide such evidence then I will humbly apologize for my lack of this knowledge you've provided evidence of. Can you provide such evidence?
2016-04-08 22:48:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol, this is a response to the guy who posted the "Is AIDS a behavioral disease" question I take it?
And I agree with you, we do need better ideas and programs.
Edit:
Lol, how "High and Mighty" some of these people are. Get off your high horses. Sex is a part of life. Should it be respected? Yes. But you people are delusional if you think it isn't natural to have sex. It IS an instinct.
2007-12-12 04:11:14 · answer #4 · answered by pip 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
yeah sex is a fact of life, but its also a fact of life that if everyone used condoms and didnt have dozens of partners your chances of getting HIV is very small. yes, some people have sex once in their life and get it, but that number is small. the majority of the people that spread it have a different partner every weekend. and no you cant control other people's behavior, but i think by saying that you pretty much admit that it is predominantly a disease spread by high risk behavior, whether that be by you or your partner. and even if your partner has had multiple partners in the past- a simple, relatively cheap test (often free at county health clinics) is all it takes to find out whether he/she has the disease or not
and you probably didnt know it before you posted but TB is in a resurgence mainly because of AIDS which has increased number of immunocompromised people in this country
"Having sex in a particular country in Africa that has a high percentage of HIV positive folks is "high risk sexual behavior". Are you saying htat EVERYONE in those countries can't have sex?"
that's a valid point, im mainly refering to the US. but yes, infection rate is like 20% in some of those countries. they need education (they have so many false perceptions about the disease) and if they want to live past 40 they really need to start waiting for marriage and practicing monagomy
2007-12-12 04:09:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Given that most ministers have trouble with abstinence, I'm not surprised it's a failure around the world, are you?
Sex is like grass growing through concrete---you can poison it, pave it over, do what you will, but it is part of human nature and no pious Christian is going to make it go away by covering their eyes and pretending it doesn't exist.
2007-12-12 04:10:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
No, to the people on yahoo, they are only "behavioral' if you can acquire them through having sex.
But then again, it appears not many know how to read the studies they post as evidence.
I think its God's fault, if he wouldn't have made sex feel so good, no one would want to do it! But what other reward could he have offered for having to sit through the inhumane torment of having to listen to a woman babble about herself when all you want is to drink your jack and coke?
2007-12-12 04:09:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
*At first I didn't understand how one had to do with the other until I realized. Both should wear a Condom.[?] only in different places?
This is one time those in Rio Linda may figure this one out!
2007-12-12 04:16:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny that the jackass who asked that question referred to the Nazis- I wonder if he is aware of their policy toward gays?
Can you imagine the hospital ward?
"I have AIDS." "How did you get it?"
Is emphyzema a behavioral disease? Cancer? Type 2 diabetes?
I thought we treated the disease, not the lifestyle.
2007-12-12 04:10:57 · answer #9 · answered by Schmorgen 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Different pathogens, and contrary to it's understandable popularity, sex is not as important to human biological life as breathing
2007-12-12 04:12:35 · answer #10 · answered by Doctor DNC 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋