Why do people only associate HIV/Aids with homosexual people?

Did you not know that heterosexual people died from AIDS all the time too? It stems from being stupid and not playing it safe....not from your choice of partners.

That has got to be the worst argument for the prevention of homosexual marriages.

Because it makes the disease seem less scary to them, if it's only affecting "those people".

The truth (and nobody will tell you this) is that as long as you don't share needles, and wear protection if you are receiving anal sex, you are VERY unlikely to ever get AIDS (you have less of a chance then you would have of winning the lottery)


btw let me be the first to point out that the incidence of AIDS is LOWEST among lesbians, than any other group.

People don't these days but that does not change the fact that it is with the homosexual community that it started. Also it is a fact that if the homosexual community did not also contain some bisexuals (who infected their wives and sometimes prostitutes) - who consequently had children born with the disease, the disease would have stayed with them.

It is also fact that if some of the homosexual community had not also been involved in drug taking which meant the use of needles (which are often shared and get infected) the disease would have stayed with them. Homosexual drug users might share needles with straight drug users who then get Aids and pass it on to wives, girlfriends and subsequently children.

All cases of AIDs (if we can trace them back far enough) started with homosexuals. It was then spread, originally, though immorality of one kind or another and those who say otherwise are deliberately wearing blinkers.

You know, I can not argue what I am no expert in, I can not say that aids affects one person more than another. What I can say is that people with other defects or disease are not BAN from marriage because of their risk factors. There may very well be science to say that aids is homosexual majority issue, which would further destroy the reasoning for the ban, as there own science would say that what homosexual people do does not wholly affect the heterosexual population. This is a basic issue of freedom. Americans especially are given the "right" to the pursuit of happiness, and that it says "ALL" men are created equal. it says nothing of denial of those freedoms because those men (or women) do not fit the current majority profile.

Stop denying your fellow human beings rights based on your prejudices! let Freedom reign!

NOTE: I am just pointing out where that came from, I am not saying it is a valid arugment now or a reason against gay marriage. I support same sex marriage and this people claiming that it is just a "gay disease" are dumb.

It used to be considered a "gay" disease. When it started that is where it spread a lot, before STDs were considered such a huge issue gay men didn't have to worry about pregnancy so they were less inclined to use condoms. There have always been STDs, but AIDS is a whole lot scarier.

And without condoms, anal sex (gay or straight) generally leads to more bleeding and more risk of AIDS, so that is another reason why it started in the gay community.

It isn't just a "gay" disease anymore. Lesbians have the lowest rates because there is less body fluid/ blood! Homosexuals still often have monogamous relationships and there is a lot more education about condom use out there. It is a stupid argument.

Because in my country, male-to-male sexual contact accounts for a disproportionately high percentage of transmissions. Transmission through heterosexual contact is so rare it doesn't even have a category. The closest category is "HIGH-RISK heterosexual contact" (emphasis mine), which is "Heterosexual contact with a person known to have, or to be at high risk for, HIV infection."

prolly cuz the first time anybody ever heard of it, was when some white homos ,,who people previously thought were cool, and then found out they were'nt, they were gay, died from AIDS.

hollywood and personality types who played like they were cool and normal, and we found out they were just sick dying homos.. and so the association began

The only people running around saying HIV is a "Gay" thing are the bible-thumping retards that use HIV as an excuse to try and deny gays human rights.

If you believe that HIV is ONLY a gay thing, then how do you explain Africa? Do you really think that there are THAT MANY GAY MEN IN AFRICA?

MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN AFRICA HAVE HIV!

There are millions of Aids orphans... Are they all the children of gay men?

People that believe such stupidity really need to do their research.

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Urine is a sterile fluid... Unless you have a bladder infection.

You could bathe and drink the urine from every HIV Infected human on earth and you would not get HIV.

That is a TOTAL myth... A retarded myth at that.

Yes, Anal Sex is the most likely way to catch HIV.

NO ONE IS ARGUING WITH YOU...

What you don't understand is that the instances of Anal Sex are FAR LOWER in Homosexual Relationships then Popular Culture leads you to believe.

Gay Men Do Oral FAR FAR FAR MORE OFTEN Then They Do Anal.

The reason that so many women get HIV is because heterosexual men have been REALLY in to anal sex of late.

Women get HIV from anal sex, drug use, and accidental blood transmission.

You bigots REALLY need to get your facts straight.

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That is probably because (in the USA), the most common way of getting AIDS is when two men have (anal) sex. The second most common way is from sharing needles that have the virus. In other countries, blood transfusions are a major problem. But in the USA, it seems to be a higher risk of transfer between gay men.

It depend on which cost your on. East cost it more prevalent. west cost it was more prevalent with drug's..
West Cost the Hiv-AID's was more prevalent in the blood supply.
East cost it bit throw sexuality. South cost the same.

You can also contract it from drinking water infected with urine that carries the virus. Contact on a wound from infected blood or bodily fluid. There are many ways to contract AIDS. But sex is the most emphasized because people always think about it.

actually its very very very very very very difficult for a man to get HIV from a woman. Thats why 85% of people with HIV are openly gay, 10% percent from drug use. And 5% "hertosexual" id just say their lying probably the percent of hiv whom never had gay sex is like .001%

I always find it annoying. Those people have decided to look at one side of the issue and not the other, which makes it really hard for them to seem smart.
If anything, same sex marriage will decrease HIV in the gay community.

Aren't atheists supposed to be logical? Anal sex tears the rectum which allows contaminated blood to be exchanged. Gays engage in this kind of behavior and hence are more susceptible to contracting HIV.

Yes, we all have AIDS and love to touch little girls and boys.
That's the PERFECT argument. They're sure to win.

Oh yes, and you can thumbs down me for being gay. Don't be shy.

I didn't think this was one of the arguments against gay marriage

Because religion want in on the act and right wing homophobes from America are happy to misinform about the issue.

A) uninformed.
B) Deceived.

For the same reason why there are still people convinced that "all rap music sounds the same" or "Ozzy Osbourne eats live kittens on stage". Some people are just stuck in the 80s.

i hate when they do that...but they also associate AIDS with black people...imagine much worse the whole AIDS prejudice is if you're black AND gay.

If it is was good argument, lesbians have the least amount of STDs including aids.

For some reason apprently HIV rates is higher in homosexual

Ignorance and religious dogma.

It really is pathetic, isn't it?
It's also spread by blood contact, too.
And it's not just homosexuals that take drugs.

Same thing as the Jews being blamed for economic woes it let's people hate somebody that is not in their social group.
The term is "Scape Goat"

Stupid paranoia tactics to make people toe the line. Pure propaganda at it's worst.

because people are ignorant

We know that PD. But unfortunately the dumb@rse bigoted nutjobs don't.

I agree. It's just an excuse they use to justify their bigotry.

it started because a black guy ate a monkey

true story

omg, I agree with you. it's so annoying when people do that... xx

This from a gay activist:

http://www.aids2008.com/blog/waving-flag...

Mexico: gay male HIV prevalence, 25%. General population: under 1%.

Thailand: gay: 25%. General: 2%.

Senegal: 22% versus 1%. :

China: gay HIV prevalence: 3% and apparently increasing. General prevalence: less than 0.1%.

Kenya: gay men: 13%. General population: 8%. South Africa: 35% versus 18%.