[img]eek.gif[/img] I had no idea you women were obese drunks!
Reading that just scared me Bran. *shudders*
[img]eek.gif[/img] I had no idea you women were obese drunks!
Boy! I'm like SOOOO glad I'm not gay.
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that was a retarted site and Doctor
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ March 04, 2004 08:33 PM: Message edited by: Ski ]</font>
Keep up the fight Bran...
*rant moment coming up*
With all the gay marriage news, I've finally started some better research on a book I plan to write in the future. I've come across a lot of websites and this one I found particularly scary, especially since it's by a Dr. Warren Throckmorton, who of course thinks he's presenting the truth on homosexuality. A questioning youth could easily come across this site and be given all kinds of misinformation, like the garbage listed below.
<font size="2" face="Comic sans ms, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please. Talk about misinformation. If HIV and other STDs infection rates are on the rise, it is still the sexual act that causes them, NOT being a gay male. Anal intercourse has its health dangers, not being gay. And the line about how lesbians have more health risks than other women? Notice how he doesn't mention that lesbians, as a group, have fewer STDs than any other category? Nope, he turns to the idea that we suffer from more depression, obesity (being gay makes you fat!), etc, etc. He tries to discount how strong societal disapproval of gays is the most likely cause of these things. If The Netherlands is the most "gay-friendly" place, it still doesn't mean gays, as a group, don't feel enormous disapproval from a world society that is mostly heterosexual. He doesn't provide any links to these studies, either."Are there health risks associated with same sex attraction?
You may have heard some scary statistics about the health risks of being gay. By giving you the facts on this CD, no one is trying to scare you but rather to help you make good choices about your behavior.
The primary health risk associated with feeling attracted to the opposite sex may involve a greater risk for symptoms of depression. Studies just looking at people who have never acted on their attractions are new. We need more of these kinds of studies.
However, and this is important, the risks associated with having sex with someone of your own sex are significantly greater. In other words, if you don?t act on your feelings of same sex attraction, you can avoid almost all of the health risks associated with homosexuality. This is true of any health risks associated with any kind of sexual behavior, however, the problems you avoid may be greater when considering homosexuality.
According the Journal of Public Health, the rates of HIV/AIDS among gay males has increased 14% since 1999. HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus and it is the virus that leads to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). AIDS is incurable and the drugs that are on the market to relieve its symptoms have devastating side effects. The rates of syphilis and gonorrhea have also risen significantly among gay males. Most of the transmission of these diseases can be explained by unwise sexual behavior.
Some people will tell you that you can avoid AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases by using a condom. While this may be somewhat helpful, it is not as protective for certain sexual behaviors, such as anal intercourse. Frankly, the body was not made for anal intercourse and condoms can tear leaving the persons involved open to disease from HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea, and anal cancer. Let me repeat, condoms are not always effective. Not all men who identify as gay engage in anal intercourse, but apparently enough of them do to cause the recent sharp rise in new cases of AIDS, syphilis and gonorrhea.
At least one study found that lesbians have health risks than non-lesbian women. Higher rates of depression, suicidal thinking, drug and alcohol use and obesity have been associated with those identifying as lesbian.
Some people say that the reason gays and lesbians are subject to more depression and other mental health problems is because of the disapproval of society. While name calling and being hateful to anyone is wrong for other reasons, societal disapproval may not be the culprit for the problems homosexuals face. For instance, the rates of depression and mental health problems for homosexuals are greater than heterosexuals in the Netherlands, even though that culture is one of the most gay-friendly cultures in the world. Until we know more about the link between identifying as gay, lesbian or bisexual and mental health and health problems, it seems safe to say that there are risks associated with organizing your life and sexual behavior around same sex attractions and feelings."
In fact, most of the links posted are for religious websites, ex-gay websites, with the only references to gay groups listed under the Same Sex Marriage Information Center heading. In other words, no good nuetral websites like Religious Tolerance.
*sigh*
It's another reminder why I should start writing this book idea now.
*rant off*
Thanks for listening.
<font color="#a62a2a"><font size="1">[ March 04, 2004 12:24 PM: Message edited by: Branflakes ]</font></font>
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ March 04, 2004 12:29 PM: Message edited by: Branflakes ]</font>
I know eactly what you mean. Sometimes when I'm fighting with people about this stuff I just want to bark at them.
Grrr.
"Heel Rex, heel."
Feel free to take care of your business on the aforementioned website though.
*tosses away his pooper-scooper to go get a bigger shovel*
Oh good grief! [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img] Better hurry up with that book Bran.
Did flick around the site tho' had to laugh about the 'eunuchs' (actually I think its just a funny word)
Re-orientation counselling??????????
The sad thing is there will be people who totally believe this shit.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ March 07, 2004 04:32 AM: Message edited by: Chaos Butterfly ]</font>
Uh...an ex girlfriend tried to re-orientate me.
She said she wasn't "a lesbian" because she was too attractive to be a lesbian.
I sighed and decided to break up before I squeezed her head against a wall.
So definitely educate a mind to intelligence is more difficult than trying to put stupidity in it.
I once went to dinner with a guy friend and he seemed to spend a large part of our conversation telling me I was a lesbian or at least bi.
People can be such idiots. [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]
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