Keith.

Reasonable response, but it is important to be clear about what the topic of conversation is, and what stats are going to be useful.

The questions currently under discussion are:

"Is homosexuality an unhealthy lifestyle?"

And

"Should we therefore curtail the civil rights of homosexuals"

So the stats needed are those which paint a clear and accurate picture of the risks of homosexuality as compared with heterosexuality.


I cold post the results of a survey done in a mosque, and the results of a survey done in a HIV clinic and they would say different things.

To get an accurate overall picture, I need to provide a wider range of stats.

Do you agree that focussing on stats from one country and ignoring stats from another, whilst also ignoring the global picture, creates a misleading picture?

Do you think that the stats provided show homosexuality to be different from other "lifestyles" in that it is unhealthy and risky where they are not?

Or do you just see, as I do, that concentrations vary depending on where you go and that it is impossible to derive any hard and fast rules connecting homosexuality to HIV that cannot also be applied to heterosexuals?