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the "age divide" vs. homosexuality ; very curious!
I saw something about this on a news site (i'm sorry I can't find the link to cite it...I hope I can still post because it's just a poll?) I'm incredibly curious about this. I've noticed certain inclinations on certain issues tend to relate to age.....for instance homosexuality. it's considered something more acceptable to the younger generations, versus the older generations who are GENERALLY more traditional and who do not find it as acceptable. But I'm curious to see if that's truly how the divide stands or if people really are all over the board about it regardless of age.
hence this poll.
PLEASE no inflammatory comments. I am not interested on personal opinions about homosexuality either for or against (I mean, I'm interested but that's not the point of the post, lol), merely "where you stand" in reference to your age. Not trying to be rude but in order to avoid getting this post deleted because I am truly very curious about this and I would love to know if my theory is true....I don't want to start any arguments or debates or insults....so please be nice everyone!
Thank you :)
How do you stand as far as personal acceptance or lack of acceptance of homosexuality in general?
hence this poll.
PLEASE no inflammatory comments. I am not interested on personal opinions about homosexuality either for or against (I mean, I'm interested but that's not the point of the post, lol), merely "where you stand" in reference to your age. Not trying to be rude but in order to avoid getting this post deleted because I am truly very curious about this and I would love to know if my theory is true....I don't want to start any arguments or debates or insults....so please be nice everyone!
Thank you :)
How do you stand as far as personal acceptance or lack of acceptance of homosexuality in general?
I just googled to get further information to be better informed and the site I got to is saying that the first cases of Aids appeared in the 1980's in New York and California in homosexual men when they developed rare symptoms and cancers. If you put into gooogle .The Origin of HIV and Aids and the first cases of Aids .......
I think at one time the fastest growing group of those contracting HIV was the male homosexual population, and of course intravenous drug users (needle sharing). My understanding is that that now has changed somewhat, and the fastest growing group is women, particularly younger women. It seems for some reason this population thinks they are not at risk. With so much education about using condoms and protecting yourself, spread has decreased significantly. Needle exchange locations and drop boxes have helped a great deal with drug users as well. But boy did there ever used to be a stigma associated because of it. I can remember in the late 80's hearing horrible things such as AIDS being God's way of punishing homosexuals, jokes that Gay stood for Got Aids Yet and other awful things like that. Thank God people have become educated. And it's wonderful that AIDS is no longer a death sentence.
thank you.. I always thought that it was spread by the homosexual community and then passed on to the hetrosexuals.It shows how the media gets this kind of thing wrong , most of the reports I have read were about homosexuality and HIV ...
That's horrible...and yes, it took WAY too long for it to be spoken about. way too many lives were lost because no one realized it was even an issue....the stigma attached to homosexuality was such that they were afraid to seek help at ALL.
I knew someone who died in the early years of the HIV epidemic before there was any treatment that worked. It was tragic and also that it took so long for it even to be mentioned in the public press let alone treatments that worked begin to be developed for it. The people I've known that were gay generally didn't speak about it much if at all. It was just another aspect of their life.
Well the source of AIDs/HIV originally is from HETEROSEXUAL peoples in Africa who used monkey blood as tattoos...so I would say that there were several generations of AIDs passed HETEROSEXUALLY first.
The reason it's more prevalent in homosexual relationships is because there's no reason to use protection because there's no way to get pregnant if you're in a homosexual relationship. That being said....it's easier to pass in a homosexual relationship, but they're proving more and more that it's a complete myth that the homosexual community has more cases of HIV these days. IN the 80's when it was just becoming studied and known about, yes the homosexual community had higher cases because they did not know to use protection. Since then, however, there has becoming a more even percentage between homo- and hetero- peoples with AIDs/HIV. It's speculated that this is because MOST homosexual couples are likely to remain monogamous....very few homosexual people have the same average number of partners in a lifetime as a heterosexual person (whether this is because of lifestyle choices or because of lack of opportunity is up for debate). But whatever the cause....it's a myth that more homosexual people have HIV/AIDs than heterosexual people NOW. Like I said, in the 80's yes...that was the case...but no longer. And you have to think...if it ONLY spread through homosexual relationships, no heterosexual people would have it and they do...plenty do. IV drug usage is as big of a culprit for spreading HIV as unprotected sex.
The reason it's more prevalent in homosexual relationships is because there's no reason to use protection because there's no way to get pregnant if you're in a homosexual relationship. That being said....it's easier to pass in a homosexual relationship, but they're proving more and more that it's a complete myth that the homosexual community has more cases of HIV these days. IN the 80's when it was just becoming studied and known about, yes the homosexual community had higher cases because they did not know to use protection. Since then, however, there has becoming a more even percentage between homo- and hetero- peoples with AIDs/HIV. It's speculated that this is because MOST homosexual couples are likely to remain monogamous....very few homosexual people have the same average number of partners in a lifetime as a heterosexual person (whether this is because of lifestyle choices or because of lack of opportunity is up for debate). But whatever the cause....it's a myth that more homosexual people have HIV/AIDs than heterosexual people NOW. Like I said, in the 80's yes...that was the case...but no longer. And you have to think...if it ONLY spread through homosexual relationships, no heterosexual people would have it and they do...plenty do. IV drug usage is as big of a culprit for spreading HIV as unprotected sex.
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