Peace2God'sPeople wrote:Not only is anal intercourse destructive to anal tissue and muscles, but there is the prevalence of gay bowel syndrome and the wide variety of diseases including AIDS that are so easily transmitted as a result of this practice.

And where is your evidence for this? Should I presume since you don't use other people's research at all that most of that is just things you've assumed through your own 'experience'? I cannot get AIDS. Why? Because my boyfriend and I have both been tested thoroughly and are clean. HIV cannot transmit if there is no HIV there to begin with.

And though I don't find women of all races sexy, it wouldn't bother me if I found out that one of them was attracted to me (I speak hypothetically as I am happily married, though not without reservations about the divisive nature of marriage in America). However, I can get quite nauseated when I visit a coffee shop in a big city and have a man stare and smile at me as I walk in for a cup of java.

Noone "taught me" that response. I grew up in a home where my mother was the ultimate defender of liberal, egalitarian causes. I respect many of my mom's ideas and sentiments. And now in her old age, she has enough common sense to admit that she isn't so sure that abortion is defensible, or whether homosexuality is "a good, healthy thing". All she ever knew was that she cared about people.

So? No one taught me my arousal responses. What are you trying to get at?

I haven't had more than one sexual partner.

At a time or period? None of my business? That's fine, really.

In my lifetime.

But as you are still in college, you have a lot of life left in front of you, I hope. You may not want to face the reality of disease that faces many homosexuals, but I can assure you that that threat is real.

I would not have participated in gay sex if I knew it was certainly harmful. However, it is not. Many things that gay couples do, straight couples do as well. My boyfriend is clean and so am I. We cannot transmit things we do not have.

Maybe you should look around a little bit-maybe you should consider this as a serious possibility.

If homosexual is so natural, why the prevalence of health issues associated with it?

If you are speaking of mental issues, I can personally see society as the primary factor in it. If you are speaking of physical issues, consider that AIDS is going down in gay men as they are becoming more aware and that AIDS is going up in heterosexual women, who are both at high risk of HIV and lack the sense of awareness that gay men have since the AIDS epidemic. To sum it all: Being gay has nothing to do with STDs. It's your awareness and ability to play safe.

Adultery and homosexuality both dishonor the God given function blessing of sex and intimacy. If you refuse to see the obvious pain, suffering, and disease that both of them bring (entirely by themselves) to all involved, then you refuse to see the obvious and no matter how many experts and historians I can quote you evidence from, you will not ever admit to it.

I don't know how I'm 'refusing' to see obvious pain or suffering since I do not suffer anything that is associated with being gay. I am happy to be in a such a great relationship and, if anything, it's the best thing that has happened in my life.

Perhaps that is why I am less eager to play the "my evidence is better than yours" game. I would rather have an honest discussion of first-hand observations and personal experiences than deal with someone else's evidence and statistics.

Peace and health,
Peace2God'sPeople

Well, then hear me on this. I am a gay male who is currently in a gay relationship and I am as healthy as ever. Well, I really do need to work out more. Gotta start running before I get a gut.