Dear runner,

I forgot to add that it is understandable for an
organisation like the Australian Red Cross to ensure
that the Australian Community has confidence and
trust in the Australian Red Cross Blood Service
therefore they have to have rules that ensure that
people who take part in dangerous and risky sexual
behaviour be it heterosexual or homosexual not be
acceptable to give blood and put others at risk.
There's a list of ineligibile people in the website
I gave you which includes not only homosexuals, but
sex-workers, drug addicts, people who have sertain
illnesses and diseases, and so on.

LOL Fox, you have excelled with your spin to turn everything around the 180 degrees to make women victims at fault for not having HIV tests to tell them their bisexual partners had contracted AIDS and didn't inform them before engaging in sex.

You have also managed to mask with heaps of meaningless waffle the very sad fact that women, especially students and young women of childbearing age, are giving in to risky anal sex because they are being made to believe that their male partners are right to expect it.

That false perception by women (and men) is because anal sex and other proved high risk sex is constantly being normalised through film and the media. Australia's taxpayer funded public broadcaster for example has earned the nick of 'GayBeeCee' through the millions of dollars of free publicity it has given to gay activism and arguably because it comes up so often and is rarely mentioned as risky, anal sex and other risky practices.

Girls, young women and older women too deserve better than that. At the very minimum it should be a legal requirement for any intending male partner to inform them of any sexual history they have had with another male. It is just not good enough that women are being denied information that is crucial, vital, where their health and possible children's health are concerned and would likely cause them to refuse sex had they known.

It is NOT good enough to put it all back on them as you want to Fox and make it their (women's) fault for not demanding a condom and ensuring it was used ideally. In any event, rational women know that condoms have a failure rate too and NOT taking the risk in the first place is the only rational choice.

Also it is simply NOT good enough that girls and young women are not receiving strong and active support from educationalists and health authorities to refuse anal and other risky sex. It is where 'NO' should mean 'NO!'.

OTB,

Well said.

Thirty or so years ago a friend of mine, who could not sire a child, agreed to his wife becoming pregnant through a donor's sperm.
She had the procedure and duly became pregnant and in course gave birth to a perfectly normal and healthy baby girl.
Unfortunately she contacted AIDs from the donor's sperm and died a slow, painful and rather horrible death.
As the Aids progressed she refused to see any of her friends as she wished us to remember her as she was, a vivacious and happy young woman.

Had she gone on holidays somewhere and had an illicit relationship with some healthy young hunk and told her husband that she'd had the donor procedure, she'd probably be alive today and seeing her grandchildren.

But she was a moral young woman and a loving wife and paid a terrible price for her virtue.

As far as I'm concerned gays should be banned from giving blood because after all its their queer lifestyle choices that make themselves high risk. There is no way I would accept or knowingly allow gays blood to be given to any of my family, but that's just my personal view.

After all it's a choice they make when choosing their lifestyles

As for my Noah post, it was a figure of speech as I'm not a believer in the myth myself.

otb,

You obviously have your own set point of view.
But there are others on the subject.

I gave the Guardian
website on British women as merely one example.
Your attack on me is uncalled for as it was not my opinion
that was being expressed but those of the Guardian.
Perhaps you need to go back and actually read the given
website before you make a fool of yourself needlessly.

OTB I see little need to waste tax payers dollars educating people that it's risky to place ones penis into another's rectom where waste is expelled from. No amount of money will help legislate against stupidity as they say.

The ridiculous baby bonus is also responsible for it's own set of health problems as the lure of five grand was just too much for many, evidence being in the number of multi fathered families.

On the subject of gay men, perhaps they should be shortlisted with this who should be funding their own health treatment for issues arising from self inflicted health problems, because let's face it, something's going to have to give with regards to our over streched health budgets.

Smoking, indulgence, excessive alcohol and unsafe sex practices which should include women engaging in anal sex.