<p>Article a friend sent me that she found on Rolling Stone that talks about a group of homosexual men that are trying to be infected by HIV because they think of it as an erotic disease. </p>
<p>Well, obviously the preservation of the human species isn't #1 on homosexuals' lists :eek:</p>
<p>They should fly all of these people to Africa so that they can visit AIDS orphans who have no one left to look after them because of this disease.</p>
<p>My mother is a flight attendant who comes into contact with a lot of homosexual men, it's a popular profession with them, and she says that its common. I heard about it from her like a year ago when somebody brought it up like the op did. But obviously homosexuality isn't a psychological problem. Obviously.</p>
<p>It isn't. The article says it's a small group of uneducated homosexuals who think that dealing with this disease is a cakewalk. They're also very selfish in that once they get the disease they're hell bent on killing someone else with it.</p>
<p>It probably is. Why would anyone do this? Look. If you people argue that being gay is genetic, then its not outside the realm of possibility that it is also a genetic disorder!</p>
<p>The people that do this probably have issues. But you can't generalize the entire gay community as insane. If you do, you should probably be leaving because you're late for your weekly book burning.</p>
<p>what does this have to do with homosexuality being a psychological problem? homosexuality is neither psychological nor a problem. however, this specific behavior is a psychological problem. Anyone who read the entire article would have seen the numerous quotations from gay activists saying that the majority of the gay community shuns this behavior.</p>
<p>"But obviously homosexuality isn't a psychological problem. Obviously."</p>
<p>There are communities on the internet where you can find straight people asking to be tied up to trees in public. There are communities where people ask others to flog them to a bloody mess for sexual pleasure. There are tons of extreme fetish communities out there. That doesn't mean every single straight person is a sadist.</p>
<p>"homosexuality is neither psychological nor a problem."</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>these people who go bug chasing obviously have psychological problems or are ignorant of the true effects of HIV/AIDS.</p>
<p>Figgy, I don't understand how you're connecting that quote to the rest of your post.
The bug chasers happen to be homosexual but their behavior is in no way representative of the mainstream gay community. In the article, the author makes this point clear.
"When I asked about bug chasing, leaders of groups such as Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the Stop AIDS Project, and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation weren't interested in providing much education or increasing public awareness. To the contrary, most were dismissive of the issue and some actively dissuaded me from writing the article at all. A spokeswoman for the Stop AIDS Project, Shana Krochmal, characterized bug chasing as "relatively minor acting-out" and aggressively encouraged me to drop the article idea altogether, saying the issue is "not big enough to warrant a trend story." Krochmal cautioned against focusing on "just a bunch of really vocal guys who want to continue this image of being reckless, hedonistic gay men who will do anything to get laid. I think that does a disservice to the community at large." The San Francisco AIDS Foundation labeled the issue "sensational" and would not provide further comment. GLAAD spokeswoman Cathy Renna was more helpful, saying she had heard enough about bug chasing to be concerned, emphasizing that her group's focus would be whether people use bug chasing as an easy way to disparage all gays and lesbians as sex-crazed and reckless. "The vast majority of the gay community would be just as surprised and appalled by this as anyone else," she says."
The last few lines are the most relevant.</p>
<p>"these people who go bug chasing obviously have psychological problems or are ignorant of the true effects of HIV/AIDS."</p>
<p>Although whether or not homosexuality is a problem can be debated to the ends of the earth (a debate I'm not interested in joining), this group probably doesnt represent homosexuals as a group.</p>
<p>"The people that do this probably have issues. But you can't generalize the entire gay community as insane. If you do, you should probably be leaving because you're late for your weekly book burning."</p>
<p>They PROBABLY have issues? *!</p>
<p>I don't think I will understand where people draw their "lines" when it comes to things being messed up. .</p>
<p>-"Hi, I'd like some tea."
-"Sure, anything else?"
-"Oh, and two sugars please."
-" Are you out of your mind!?"</p>
<p>And, of course, we all know that if I don't support homosexuality, then I must be a crazy southern baptist with a preacha daddy whosa a'ways talkin' 'bout da comin' o' da Lord, an' how He'sa gonna punish aw dem sinnas, an' sendem straight to 'ell!</p>
<p>"relatively minor acting-out"</p>
<p>Wow, the spokeswoman for STOP AIDS project, couldn't just call it a "minor acting-out," she had to throw in "relatively." Why do think she did that? Relative to who? </p>
<p>What kind of language is "relatively minor acting-out" for a situation like this? When I saw this thread I didn't think of giving little kids time out</p>
<p>Your quote article didn't even help your cause. It cited like 4-5 major organizations that wouldn't even talk to the journalist about it. AND Krochmal also said that it wasn't "big enough to warrant a trend story." Let's analyze that statement for a moment. She isn't saying that the issue isn't big, she is saying that in her opinion it isn't big to warrant a TREND story.</p>
<p>"According to you it's perfectly cool for a couple of guys with fake lisps to ejaculate in each other's butts, despite how disease-causing that is, but as soon as they want the "love bug," THEN they're absolutely messed up lunatics."
Yeah, that is actually how I feel. And for your information, that kind of sex is popular among heterosexuals, too. The actual sex act does not cause disease.
P.S. Don't insult members of the human race like you did in that post. "Fake lisps"? I think that post could get you banned. You are entitled to your opinions, but please don't use hateful epithets.</p>
<p>"And, of course, we all know that if I don't support homosexuality, then I must be a crazy southern baptist with a preacha daddy whosa a'ways talkin' 'bout da comin' o' da Lord, an' how He'sa gonna punish aw dem sinnas, an' sendem straight to 'ell!"</p>
<p>Made me laugh, haha. I don't support homosexuality in any sense of the word, but I'm not going to go on rallies preaching against it or tell a gay man or woman that his/her views are wrong. I have enough disdain for european missionaries who raped the rest of the world to avoid that hypocrisy.</p>
<p>WOOOOW PEOPLE READ MY POST. The arrow meant that I highly AGREED with the quote that I put. The next sentence was COMPLETELY SEPERATE...hence the giant space.</p>
<p>"homosexuality is neither psychological nor a problem."</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>these people who go bug chasing obviously have psychological problems or are ignorant of the true effects of HIV/AIDS.</p>
<p>I meant that the quote was correct. The next sentence was my view of these people who are chasing the bug...which I also believe is correct</p>
<p>You really didn't make that clear.</p>
<p>Hmm, gay genes..never heard of em. I'd love to see that scientific study that found them, do you have a link? It sounds fascinating.</p>
<p>"My mother is a flight attendant who comes into contact with a lot of homosexual men, it's a popular profession with them, and she says that its common."</p>
<p>You would think with your mother around so much of the gay male population she would know more, not less about them. Unfortunately she knows less. The majority of my friends are gay and I heard about this problem along time ago. It is looked down upon by the gay community. It certainly does not mean that everyone gay tries to get AIDS. There are straight people who like to kill people. Does that mean every straight person agrees with this action? What about rapists? Does one rape mean that everybody of that sexual orientation is a rapist? Absolutely not! The conclusions some of you are drawing are absolutely ridiculous.</p>