A far-ranging study published in 1978 revealed that
75% of self-identified, white, gay men, admitted to having sex
with more than 100 different males in their lifetime, with 28%
claiming more than 1,000 lifetime male sex partners. Alan P.
Bell and Marin S. Weinberg, HOMOSEXUALITIES: A STUDY OF
DIVERSITY AMONG MEN AND WOMEN 308, Table 7 (1978).
A study published in 1997 produced similar results: of 2,583
homosexuals, only 2.7 percent claimed to have had sex with
one partner only; the most common response, given by 21.6
percent of the respondents, was of having 101 to 500 lifetime
sex partners. Paul Van de Ven et al., A Comparative
Demographic and Sexual Profile of Older Homosexually
Active Men, J. SEX RESEARCH 34 (1997).
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control similarly reported an upswing in promiscuity
in San Francisco: from 1994 to 1997, the percentage of
homosexual men reporting multiple partners and unprotected
anal sex rose from 23.6 percent to 33.3 percent, with the
largest increase among men under 25. See John R. Diggs, Jr.,
M.D., The Health Risks of Gay Sex (available at
www.corporateresourcecouncil.org) (citing Increases in
Unsafe Sex and Rectal Gonorrhea among Men Who Have
Sex With Men ? San Francisco, California, 1994-1997,
MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY WEEKLY REPORT, CDC, 48(3):
45-48, p. 45 (Jan. 29, 1999)); see also Erica Goode, With
Fears Fading, More Gays Spurn Old Preventive Message,
NEW YORK TIMES, August 19, 2001 (in the past seven years,
while the practice of anal sex had increased, with multi-partner
sex doubling, condom use had declined 20 percent). A 1994
survey of 2500 homosexual men published in the August 23,
1994 issue of THE ADVOCATE revealed that in the past five
years 48% of the men had engaged in ?three-way sex? and
24% had engaged in ?group sex (four or more).?
w w w . f o r t h e c h i l d r e n i n c . c o m / i s s u e s /
homosexuality/TheAgenda/InTheirOwnWords.html.
A long-term monogamous relationship also has a
different meaning among those who engage in homosexual
conduct. ?Gay magazines are . . . celebrating the bigger bang of
sex with strangers or proposing ?monogamy without fidelity? ?
the latest Orwellian formulation to excuse having your cake and
eating it too.? Camille Paglia, I?ll Take Religion Over Gay
Culture, Salon.com online magazine, June 1998 (available at
w w w . f r o n t p a g e m a g . c o m / a r c h i v e s /
guest_column/paglia/gayculture.htm).
Another author praises gay male couples for realizing that sexual fidelity is not necessary to show their love for each other and advocates that gay male
couples can ?provide models and materials for rethinking family
life and improving family law.? Richard D. Mohr, In The Case
for Gay Marriage, 9 NOTRE DAME J. L. ETHICS & PUB.
POL?Y 215, 233 (1995). A recent study reveals that although
46% of gay men attending ?circuit parties? claimed to have a
?primary partner?, 27% of those men ?had multiple sex partners
(oral or anal) during their most recent circuit party weekend . . .
.? Gordon Mansergh, Grant Colfax, et al., The Circuit Party
Men?s Health Survey Findings and Implications for Gay
and Bisexual Men, AM. J. OF PUB. HEALTH 91(6): 953-58
(June 2001).
Given these staggering statistics of sexual promiscuity,
the number of diseases that are found predominantly (and in
some instances, exclusively) among homosexual practitioners
comes as no surprise. Although nearly 64% of men with AIDS
were men who have had sex with men, Basic Statistics, CDC
DIVISION OF HIV/AIDS PREVENTION, June 2001 (available at
www.cdc.gov/ hiv/stats.htm), the list of diseases found with
higher incidence among those engaged in homosexual conduct
does not stop there. ?Reports at a national conference about
sexually transmitted diseases indicate that gay men are in the
highest risk group for several of the most serious diseases.? Bill
Roundy, STD Rates on the Rise, NEW YORK BLADE NEWS 1,
Dec. 15, 2000 (?the increased number of sexually transmitted
diseases (STD) cases is the result of an increase in risky sexual
practices by a growing number of gay men who believe HIV is
no longer a life-threatening illness?); see also Jon Garbo, Gay
and Bi Men Less Likely to Disclose They Have HIV,
GAYHEALTH NEWS, July 18, 2000 (researchers from the
University of California, San Francisco found that 36% of
homosexuals engaging in unprotected oral, anal or vaginal sex
failed to disclose that they were HIV positive to casual sex
p a r t n e r s ) ( a v a i l a b l e a t
www.gayhealth.com/templates/0/news?record=136).
The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency
among male homosexual practitioners as a result of anal sex
include: anal cancer, chlamydia trachomatis, cryptosporidium,
giardia lablia, herpes simplex virus, HIV, HPV, isospora belli,
microsporidia, gonorrhea, viral hepatitis types B & C, syphilis.
John R. Diggs, Jr., M.D., The Health Risks of GaySex 3
(available at
www.corporateresourcecouncil.org). ?Sexual
transmission of some of these diseases is so rare in the
exclusively heterosexual population as to be virtually
unknown.? Id. at 3 (emphasis added). Another disease found
almost exclusively among homosexual practitioners is ?Gay
Bowel Syndrome? ? ?sexually transmitted gastrointestinal
syndromes.? STD Treatment Guidelines: Proctitis, Proctocolitis,
and Enteritis, (Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention 1993) (available at
www.amaassn.
org/special/std/treatmnt/guide/stdg3470.htm); see also
Jack Morin, ANAL PLEASURE AND HEALTH: A GUIDE FOR
MEN AND WOMEN 22 (1998) (explaining that homosexual
sexual activities ?provide many opportunities for tiny amounts of
contaminated feces to find their way into the mouth of the sexual
partner . . . the most direct route is oral-anal contact?).
As for the diseases that are also found among
heterosexuals, individuals engaged in homosexual conduct
constitute the largest percentage of many of those diseases,
including anal cancer, HIV, HPV (a collection of viruses that
can cause warts, or papillomas, on various body parts) and
syphilis. For example, 85% of the syphilis cases reported in
the Seattle area of Washington in 1999 were among selfidentified
homosexual practitioners. Diggs, supra, at 3-4.
Syphilis among male homosexual practitioners is at epidemic
levels in San Francisco. Id. HPV also is ?almost universal?
among those men. Bill Roundy, STDs Up Among Gay Men:
CDC Says Rise is Due to HIV Misperceptions , THE
WASHINGTON BLADE, Dec. 8, 2000 (available at
www.washblade.com/health/a). While the incidence of anal
cancer in the United States is only .9/100,000, the number
soars to 35/100,000 for those engaged in homosexual conduct.
Bob Roehr, Anal Cancer and You, BETWEEN THE LINES, Nov.
16, 2000 (available at
www.pridesource.com/cgibin/article?
article=3835560).
Lesbians are also at increased risk for certain diseases,
including cancer, hepatitis C, and bacteria vaginosis,
predominantly because they are ?significantly more likely to
report past sexual contact with a homosexual or bisexual man
and sexual contact with an IDU (intravenous drug user).?
Katherine Fethers et al., Sexually Transmitted Infections and
Risk Behaviors in Women Who Have Sex with Women ,
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS 345-47. Although rare,
a Philadelphia woman recently tested positive for HIV as a
result of ?shared sex toys? with her HIV-positive bisexual
f e m a l e p a r t n e r . S e e
www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=7628&sd=01/31/03.
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