http://www.fava.org.au/news/2012/how-many-homosexuals-are-there-in-australia/

"1.6% of men in Australia identify as gay, 0.9% identify as bisexual"

That's about 280,000 men in Australia.

1000 out of 280,000 ain't bad.

Considering how few this is, the expense is nothing to bitch about.

How much public funding is spent on the diseases resulting from the lifestyle choices of heavy drinkers and smokers?

They should know better!

The numbers seem to vary depending on the uses they are being put to.

For example, the overly optimistic, political activist discounters of the costs of HIV do not factor in anything for the flow-ons, the dramatically reduced choices and changed lifestyles forever of the women and children affected.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/a-young-woman-reveals-what-living-with-hiv-is-really-like/news-story/daebdfdee2f13b56997815ecdadc975f

Of course anyone at risk through accident or choice, or already affected should be encouraged to seek medical advice. The Internet is not the best place for that.

However the thread is aimed at teasing out why the message isn't getting through on the very serious risks of anal sex? Especially where girls and young women are concerned.

I believe that they are being put much more at risk by the expectations being put on students and young women, and by the normalising and the discounting of the risks and consequences of the disease. I have already said for example that most girls and young women are far more likely to have their casual sex with the 'Bad Boys' who are most likely to push for anal sex. Most should be advised that such choices ramp up their risks considerably.

Where women are concerned, any man's interest in casual sex involving anal should trigger all of the red lights and alarms, shouldn't it?

Saying an abrupt 'NO', 'NO WAY!', 'NO Argument and CU, don't bother to ring, to any proposers of anal sex is the only good advice mothers, parents and carers can give, and women can give to themselves

'Saying an abrupt 'NO', 'NO WAY!', 'NO Argument and CU, don't bother to ring, to any proposers of anal sex is the only good advice mothers, parents and carers can give, and women can give to themselves'

the safe pervesion program teaches that people have 2 types of virginty.

HIV is spread through direct contact with someone
who has HIV. Not only through rectal fluids. But
through all sorts of sexual behaviour.
It is spread through the blood, semen and preseminal fluids,
through vaginal fluids and can be spread even through breast
milk and needle or syringe uses.

http://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/how-you-get-hiv-aids/

Sodom and Gomorrah repeats.

I don't for a moment suggest FOXY, that you support men engaging in sodomizing activities. You're simply trying to acquaint us all with the medical data on STD risk. However, many of those homosexual men who loiter in and around public toilets, in hours of darkness, while trawling for like minded individuals, invite, and can cause serious crime, as well as contracting a serious STD.

You see Foxy, if their homosexual behaviour were to be confined to places of privacy, perhaps then the coppers wouldn't have to go out and pick up the pieces, after some awfully savage bashing event - I honestly don't think many members of the community realise just how much serious crime is attached to male homosexual activity. For proof, spend any Friday night/Saturday morning, at St Vincent's A&E, across the road from the infamous 'the Wall' at Darlinghurst for all the proof most of us can swallow!