Amos, this may be peripheral to the main debate, but it has been raised and should be dealt with honestly.
You posted a page of data but no conclusions.
What were we suposed to understand from all that?
This debate is about western countries.
The epidemiology of HIV is quite different in third world countries, especially africa.
USA does not permit immigration of AIDS (or TB) sufferers.
UK does, and gives them free treatment for life.
That makes UK an attractive destination for many victims and the influx distorts our statistics.
We have 20% of aids sufferers who are straight.
Only 10 % of those were infected within Europe.
That makes only 2% of our AIDS victims are straights infected here.
1 out of 50 straight, 8 out of 10 gay.
But the gay population is only about 10 % of the whole population.
Thus a gay man has 400 times the risk of a straight person of being infected here.
Unless they are 400 times more promiscuous, there must be some other factor that does make gay men a higher risk for HIV transmission.