The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #125426   Message #2809390
Posted By: Lox
11-Jan-10 - 04:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Subject: RE: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
"HPV is a false analogy.
It is likely to be transmitted equally by gay or straight penetrative sex.
It is just that men do not get cervical cancer."


Keith, you have not misunderstood.


Here is Ake's reasoning.


-Gay men risk catching HIV when they have unprotected sex with other gay men which could lead to them dying of Aids later in life,

-therefore Homosexuality for them is an unhealthy lifestyle that should be discouraged and homosexual mens rights should be curtailed to protect them.


I can apply the same reasoning as follows.


Straight Women risk catching HPV when they have unprotected sex with men which could lead to them dying of cervical cancer later in life, therefore Heterosexuality for them is an unhealthy lifestyle that should be discouraged and heterosexual womens rights should be curtailed to protect them.


In fact, both positons are utter bollocks and the answer in both cases is to use a condom.


Ake also makes out that other demographics who suffer from AIDS are distinct from Gay men and should not be subject to the same restrictions as Gay men.

But as you have pointed out, anyone may die of AIDS, which means it is not an exclusively Gay issue.

Whereas Cervical cancer is exclusive to women.


By Akes reasoning, women should have their civil rights controlled by those who know best.


Now if it wasn't for those bloody suffragettes ramming their "liberal" dogma down our throats ...