Saturday, August 2, 2008

AIDS in Texas

As of 2006, at least 69% of AIDS cases in Texas were the direct or indirect result of male to male sex. I arrive at this figure by adding:

55% male to male sex
5% (1/2 of male to male sex plus injection drug use)
2.5% (1/4 heterosexual sex, which includes sex with bisexual males)
6% (a little more than 1/2 other/risk factor not identified).

Perhaps 100% of AIDS cases in Texas were the direct or indirect result of male to male sex: if we discovered who infected the injection drug user or the person who gave infected blood, the odds are that this person contracted AIDS from having male to male sex.

Even if we stick to the lower figure, it is somewhat astonishing to realize that if men were to stop having sex with men in Texas, the number of AIDS cases would be reduced by 69%. Perhaps this is a good argument for overturning Lawrence v. Texas and for Texas and all state governments to re-introduce laws prohibiting male to male sex.

The United States apparently spends $23.3 billion per year on AIDS (research, medicines, etc.). This is, in effect, a subsidy paid by straight people to enable male homosexuals to continue pursuing their self-destructive way of life. I wonder how much of the US budget is used to enable this and other kinds of irresponsible and self-destructive behavior.

There is a great push in the United States to persuade people that homosexual sex is not immoral. It makes sense to me to describe as immoral a behavior that leads to these kinds of consequences for those who practice it as well as those who are forced to pay for the treatment of those consequences. The same can be said for any kind of sex that takes place outside of the marriage of a man and a woman: it leads to disaster for those who practice it and for the innocent people who are forced to pay the bills.

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