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The "Gay Agenda"[W:504]

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You're probably right.

That's why I responded to Hamish Howl above. I knew the quote she/he brought down was taken out of context, not to mention probably written too simplistically.

AIDS has nothing to with "gays" per se. It has everything to do with risky behavior, primarily the risky behavior of men who have sex with other men. Obviously, lesbians are not at risk of AIDS at all.
 
...obviously, lesbians are not at risk of AIDS at all.

"Women who have sex with women are a relatively hidden group that has been overlooked in most AIDS research...although data are scant, it is commonly assumed that members of this population are not at high risk for HIV infection. However, a recent study of lesbian and bisexual women living in the San Francisco Bay area reported a relatively high seroprevalence rate and has raised additional questions about this group's HIV risk. The present study, the first to focus on lesbian and bisexual women living outside major AIDS epicenters, provides additional evidence. It describes risk factors for HIV transmission among lesbian and bisexual women living in small cities in four geographic regions of the United States...."


Lesbian and Bisexual Women in Small Cities—At Risk for HIV?
 

I don't know what you're trying to say with this thread but I think it's kind of common that high school students question their sexuality. Most people I know went through. Weather questioned it I grew up to be straight. It was just that I was in high school in the late 90s and in that era if you said you were gay that legal was stuck to you. No it doesn't seem like it is. That's not a bad thing.
 
I don't know what you're trying to say with this thread but I think it's kind of common that high school students question their sexuality. Most people I know went through. Weather questioned it I grew up to be straight. It was just that I was in high school in the late 90s and in that era if you said you were gay that legal was stuck to you. No it doesn't seem like it is. That's not a bad thing.

According to the article, it's double the amount in 2015, and likely much higher than it was in the late 1990s.

Same thing with support for same-sex marriage: from 27 pct in the late 1990s to 70 pct today.
 
According to the article, it's double the amount in 2015, and likely much higher than it was in the late 1990s.

Same thing with support for same-sex marriage: from 27 pct in the late 1990s to 70 pct today.
What's the point. Are you suggesting a permissive society is more likely to have more gay people or what?
 
According to the Kinsey scale, up to 50% of people are bisexual to some degree despite the fact that many never act on it.

Would you consider someone that's a one on the Kinsey scale a bisexual person?

I think at one time probably a decade or two ago a four or five would be bisexual.
 
Bisexual but only slightly.
I was just trying to get an idea of where you place that sort of thing.
A little explanation for why I said that if you're interested. I came out 16 or so years ago and that was the last time I thought about that stuff so my information is 16 years behind.

Number one is slightly bisexual even if they never engage in any same sex activities.
 
What's the point. Are you suggesting a permissive society is more likely to have more gay people or what?

Why are the two things I pointed out happening? Is it driven by a "gay agenda" or something else?
 
According to the article, it's double the amount in 2015, and likely much higher than it was in the late 1990s.

Same thing with support for same-sex marriage: from 27 pct in the late 1990s to 70 pct today.
That's a good thing.....right?
 
There's a difference between people who may have at one point had homoerotic feelings early in life and those who are genuinely gay. Been a while since I've looked at the literature, but from what I remember in reading things like medical/psyche references, much of the research on up until the 1980s indicated that about 5% of the population self-identified as gay. Some sources suggested that this could be a low figure given the fact that there's stigma associated with such labels and, as best as I can recall, estimated that number to be closer to 10%. It wouldn't surprise me if the true number's a bit north of that. Frankly, 20-25% seems high, but who knows...

One of my crackpot hypotheses on gayness or other forms of non-heterosexuality is that it could be something that occurs naturally within the animal kingdom as a reaction to population pressure. If, for example, the human population were to become endangered, then assuming resources were somewhat abundant, there would be pressure to reproduce, and the species would need more individuals with reproductive capacity engaging in heterosexual reproductive activity. But in modern times, it's just not that necessary.
 
There's a difference between people who may have at one point had homoerotic feelings early in life and those who are genuinely gay. Been a while since I've looked at the literature, but from what I remember in reading things like medical/psyche references, much of the research on up until the 1980s indicated that about 5% of the population self-identified as gay. Some sources suggested that this could be a low figure given the fact that there's stigma associated with such labels and, as best as I can recall, estimated that number to be closer to 10%. It wouldn't surprise me if the true number's a bit north of that. Frankly, 20-25% seems high, but who knows...

One of my crackpot hypotheses on gayness or other forms of non-heterosexuality is that it could be something that occurs naturally within the animal kingdom as a reaction to population pressure. If, for example, the human population were to become endangered, then assuming resources were somewhat abundant, there would be pressure to reproduce, and the species would need more individuals with reproductive capacity engaging in heterosexual reproductive activity. But in modern times, it's just not that necessary.
How do you measure that difference scientifically?
 

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