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Our friends at Box Turtle Bulletin discovered a news story with an interesting headline: "Study links virus to rare cancer in heterosexual men." The article talks about how straight men are catching HPV - otherwise know as genital warts, which can lead to cancer.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the cancer risk to heterosexual men posed by HPV is low. Homosexual and bisexual men are 17 times more likely to develop anal cancer as a result of HPV than heterosexual men are, according to the CDC's Web site.
But the UA's research appears to contradict those figures.
Conducted with the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., the UA study collected biological specimens from 253 men in Tucson and Florida who said they'd had sex with a woman in the last year. Of the 222 men in the survey who said they'd had sex only with women in their lives, roughly 25 percent had an anal HPV infection, according to the research. Of that group, one-third had a strain of HPV that could lead to anal cancer, a rare form of cancer unrelated to colon cancer, the study found.
I wonder where the right wing fanatics are who are always trumpeting headlines when a disease is linked to gay people?
The truth is, diseases do not discriminate. It is sickening when right wing lunatics try to link homosexuality to certain illnesses, rather than unsafe sexual practices. What do you want to bet that the fundamentalist lobby doesn't exploit this story to point out the danger of the "heterosexual lifestyle"? These people are such self-serving hypocrites.
15 Comments:
Wayne, maybe we should all start putting it out there, see what they do with it? About time their cover was blown.
posted by Anonymous, at
7/08/2008 11:37 AM
It wouldn't matter, Robert. It's fact, not make-believe.
And every good fundie knows that fiction is fact, and fact is fiction.
posted by S., at
7/08/2008 2:18 PM
As Wayne has demonstrated through thruthwinsout.org, people like Dobson et. al., will use any lie that they can get their hands on to smear gays and lesbians. Their audience isn't swift enough to understand the multi-dimensonal aspects of the truth, so they are often somewhat successful until they are found out. These are truly a bunch of nasty SOBs.
posted by Anonymous, at
7/08/2008 4:01 PM
Ah, which came first the chicken or the egg. Doctors have known for years that straight sexually active women are more likely than lesbians to have ovarian and cervical cancer. It would make sense that men have this problem, too. Although, more gay men have health issues related to sex than do straight men, straight women or lesbians.
posted by Anonymous, at
7/09/2008 9:24 PM
Wouldn't it be rich, turning the tables on the bigots and calling this a "straight disease"!
Anonymous, you stated.."Although, more gay men have health issues related to sex than do straight men, straight women or lesbians."
Not if you include the emerging nations of Africa and the far east. Heterosexuals succumb far more higher than do gay men and women to STDs. In fact, minority women in the U.S. are contracting HIV at a higher rate than gay men.
posted by Anonymous, at
7/10/2008 8:14 AM
Robert,
Yes, Africa has the highest rate of STD's among all of it's population.
I am talking about here in the US since that was the original population being talked about.
As far as minority women contracting disease at a higher/faster rate - that may be true - I'd like to know what exactly is that population - women of what background, income, education, access to health care, age.
Gay men have (as a population) have higher incomes, more access to health care, more education on sexually transmitted diseases and are more organized as a community across race, age, education etc... than minority women - who are a scattered, non-politically, non-recognized as a community and are situated more evenly across geographic areas than gay men.
posted by Anonymous, at
7/10/2008 6:13 PM
Anonymous, as far as I know, among minority women it is overwhelmingly women of Hispanic and African-American descent. Its alarming to say the least. Infections are also notable among a very surprising group, namely white heterosexual senior citizens, scary.
posted by Anonymous, at
7/11/2008 2:03 PM
The senior citizens record of new STD's has increased with the increased use of Viagra and other ED drugs. Seniors previously were not aware of all the STD's out there and when the ED drugs became available so did more sexual activity. As a group in their prime, the STD's were easily medicated. It is a group that is being targeted for more education about the szpread of STD's.
Also, women, still make less money than men in same jobs. That's across the board - now add in Hispanic and Black - income (overall is less) Access to healthcare limited.
Kind of makes you wonder why gay men are still contracting AIDS with three decades of education programs targeted specifically at them. I can understand minority women showing an increase - but that the rates of new cases in gay communities has not diminished by any remarkable numbers is astonishing. With all they gay community knows and has available to them - ans still - there it is - existing. Also, though there is an increase in the rates of new cases in these minority groups - does it equal or is it more or less than (per capita) the rates in gay men?
Just wondering. That stat was thrown out there without much description or detail. Sort of useless stat solely on that ... we need more info to understand the meaning of the stat.
posted by Anonymous, at
7/11/2008 11:31 PM
