Just a post for Steve. Nobody calls gay MSM, other than bigots such as Keith and Akenaton. The term I was using, as do medical and social care professions means men having penetrative sex, which is a different thing altogether and is used exclusively when relating to medial issues to indicate a particular demographic of patient. That is what our homophobes were using to demonise people, a report on HIV. HIV knows no difference, hence the predicted 5% increase in women.

If you don't have technical terms and enforce them, you end up with the press officer for a large teaching trust recently referring to medial outliers (older people unstable at home who seem to be admitted regularly due to inadequate home support) as "frequent flyers club.."

I too abhor its use outside of discussing infections where it is important to see where to plan services, and my posts above were to shut the bigots up as they use the latest HIV report as a club to hit sections of society with. The medical profession of course uses technical terms for all sorts of human emotional states, including birth, death and most things in-between. There are clarity reasons for doing so and as an outsider coming in years ago, I needed my Collins NHS / English English / NHS Phrasebook.



Terribulus. No, I only pull up sanctimonious sods whose pedantry looks stupid when they pull you up on a small irrelevant point but then make the same mistakes themselves. Err.. you for instance. (See Akhenaton's view of you, as I pasted in a number of threads yesterday.)