>The scary thing is that humanity is highly susceptible to another plague whether it is STD like AIDS or some other transmission. i would agree that humanity i

>The scary thing is that humanity is highly susceptible to another plague whether it is STD like AIDS or some other transmission. i would agree that humanity is highly susceptible to another widespread pandemic, plague, or whatever else one wishes to call - but i feel it is inappropriate to compare STDs, especially HIV (you don't trasmit AIDs), to easily transmittable diseases you don't "catch" HIV just by being in relative contact with someone who has it, that sort of talk just rehashes the thoroughly debunked talking points that emerged from the anti-gay stances and mass hysteria around HIV in the 80s-90s yes globalization and increased connectivity has allowed HIV and other STDs to spread across the globe, but it hasn't made transmission from person to person any easier and HIV isn't only spread through being gay, as others in this thread have pointed out - HIV emergence in the gay population mainly occurs in the West, it is also a prominent issue because of needle exchanges, unprotected sex among the heterosexual population, and other methods that allow for the transmission of bodily fluids between peoples