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>Gay people do not have more sex partners than straight people. On average, gay men will have more sexual partners than straight men. There's no reason to deny

>Gay people do not have more sex partners than straight people. On average, gay men will have more sexual partners than straight men. There's no reason to deny this. https://www.psypost.org/2020/07/lgb-people-and-extraverts-tend-to-have-more-sexual-partners-study-finds-57200 https://www.psypost.org/2020/07/lgb-people-and-extraverts-te... >transmit HIV by sharing needles The vast majority of new infections are through gay men having sex. IV drug use only accounts for 7% of new infections https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/statistics/ https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/stat... >but it exposes the flaw in this notion that gay people are sluts and sluts get STDs. Your insecurities don't change the facts. Gay men have more sex and more sex leads to more STDs.

fragmede 3y ago
In particular though, anal sex has a higher chance of passing on specific STDs. Gay women have a statistically lower (but not zero) chance of passing on STDs. https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/sexual-and-reproductive-health/hiv-aids/causes/risk-of-exposure.html#:~:text=Receptive%20anal%20sex%20carries%20a,riskier%20than%20insertive%20anal%20sex https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/sexual-and...
imagainstit 3y ago
"The vast majority of new infections are through gay men having sex. IV drug use only accounts for 7% of new infections" In the US. The vast majority of infections (90%) in Africa are from heterosexual sex: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12665438/#:~:text=Abstract,adults%20results%20from%20heterosexual%20transmission https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12665438/#:~:text=Abstract,a.... The primary driver of the enormous epidemic ongoing in Russia is by far IV drug users (and heterosexual sex): https://www.politico.eu/article/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-aids-in-russia-but-putin-was-afraid-to-ask/ https://www.politico.eu/article/everything-you-wanted-to-kno... "Although needle-sharing among drug addicts was one of the main reasons the disease spread so quickly, most HIV transmissions in Russia — 57 percent — are now a result of heterosexual sex. Drug use is responsible for 40 percent, while gay sex accounts for around 3 percent, according to Russia’s Federal Research Center for AIDS Prevention and Control in Moscow." The majority of people living with HIV worldwide are straight women (52%): https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/hiv-and-aids/facts-and-figures#:~:text=Globally%2C%20in%202016%20there%20were,living%20with%20HIV%20%5B1%5D https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/hiv-and-aids/facts-and.... I agree with you that the claim from some people to make like sex and number of sexual partners has nothing to do with STDs is ridiculous. It annoys me a great deal. Gay men are disproportionately at risk and affected due to number of partners and type of sex. But most people with AIDS are straight. Anyway your LGB link is funny because it claims (I think out of confusion) that lesbians have more partners as well. But lesbians also have the lowest std rates of any group. Making them obviously the best and most morally superior of the orientations.

fragmede 3y ago

In particular though, anal sex has a higher chance of passing on specific STDs. Gay women have a statistically lower (but not zero) chance of passing on STDs. https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/sexual-and-reproductive-health/hiv-aids/causes/risk-of-exposure.html#:~:text=Receptive%20anal%20sex%20carries%20a,riskier%20than%20insertive%20anal%20sex https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/sexual-and...

imagainstit 3y ago

"The vast majority of new infections are through gay men having sex. IV drug use only accounts for 7% of new infections" In the US. The vast majority of infections (90%) in Africa are from heterosexual sex: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12665438/#:~:text=Abstract,adults%20results%20from%20heterosexual%20transmission https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12665438/#:~:text=Abstract,a.... The primary driver of the enormous epidemic ongoing in Russia is by far IV drug users (and heterosexual sex): https://www.politico.eu/article/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-aids-in-russia-but-putin-was-afraid-to-ask/ https://www.politico.eu/article/everything-you-wanted-to-kno... "Although needle-sharing among drug addicts was one of the main reasons the disease spread so quickly, most HIV transmissions in Russia — 57 percent — are now a result of heterosexual sex. Drug use is responsible for 40 percent, while gay sex accounts for around 3 percent, according to Russia’s Federal Research Center for AIDS Prevention and Control in Moscow." The majority of people living with HIV worldwide are straight women (52%): https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/hiv-and-aids/facts-and-figures#:~:text=Globally%2C%20in%202016%20there%20were,living%20with%20HIV%20%5B1%5D https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/hiv-and-aids/facts-and.... I agree with you that the claim from some people to make like sex and number of sexual partners has nothing to do with STDs is ridiculous. It annoys me a great deal. Gay men are disproportionately at risk and affected due to number of partners and type of sex. But most people with AIDS are straight. Anyway your LGB link is funny because it claims (I think out of confusion) that lesbians have more partners as well. But lesbians also have the lowest std rates of any group. Making them obviously the best and most morally superior of the orientations.