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Mia Stevens

Dr. Smith

English 101

November 20, 2017

Same Sex Relations Promotes Health Risk!

In Society today, we may know or heard of someone being a homosexual. When

homosexuality started to increase so did infectious diseases. According to the article Rates For

STD Decline As Partners Get Free Antibiotics In 2013 in the United States had individuals with

Chlamydia had 1.4 million, Gonorrhea had 333,000, HIV had 50,000 and Syphilis had more than

15,000. As the years go on the number of infections get higher because the amount of

unprotected sex homosexuals have with one another. These infections can affect guys and girls

of all ages and backgrounds who are having intimate contact. Infectious diseases is known to be

a risky situation where they cause health problems to in fact can also become a reason of cause

of death. Homosexuality is the most dangerous to our way of life due to consequences of

diseases.

Homosexuality can refer to both attraction or sexual behavior between people of the same

sex. Homosexuality is contrasted with hereosexuality, bisexuality and asexuality. Even though

homosexuality does not appear to be adaptive from an evolutionary standpoint, because

homosexual sex does not produce children there is evidence of its existence through human

history. In a large CDC study conducted in STD clinic in five major U.S. cities, researchers

found the rate of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men to be nine times higher
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than among women and heterosexual men (CDC). Men who have sex have increased rates of

human immunodeficiency virus, infection and sexually transmitted diseases compared with

demographically matched controls ( Mayer). Because of the diverse exposed to STDs, it is

essential for clinicians to obtain a thorough sexual history in a culturally competent manner (

Mayer). According to Chioma Obinna men who have sex with men remains the groups most

heavily affected by new HIV infections. The life expectancy for gay and bi sexual men is 8 to 20

years less than for men in general .Also in 2007, CDC reports that homosexuals were 44 to 86

times as likely to be diagnosed with HIV compared with other men.

There are a few infectious diseases that play a huge role a part of homosexuality. When

having unprotected sex you can automatically expose yourself to one or a few. Some infections

are Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, HIV/STD, and syphilis. The younger a person starts having sex, the

greater his or her chances of becoming infected with any of those infections. According to

Center For Disease Control And Prevention Chlamydia is one of the most common sexually

transmitted diseases in the United States. This infection is easily spread because . . .

unknowingly passed to sexual partners.Chlamydia is a disease which is transmitted from one

person to another sexually and most of the times it targets gay men.Studies showed that 8% of

the gay men are suffering through rectal Chlamydia, and 5% of the gay men are suffering

through urethral Chlamydia.Gay men who are infected with the following disease experience

some discharges which come out of their penis. The worst part is that sometimes it happens that

you dont feel the symptoms at all, of the infection and infect your partner (CDC).
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(CDC chlamydia statistics)

Gonorrhea is another infection that can infect both men and women. It can cause infections in

the genitals, rectum, and throat. It is a very common infection, especially among young people

ages 15-24 years. Gonorrhea is probably the most common bacterial infection in gay men

(Robert W. Baker). In 2012 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been notified

with the increasing number of men diagnosed with this infection. These men are mostly

homosexuals, who continue to engage in risky sexual behavior with stranger sexual partners

because of online dating sites and smartphone applications that influence them (CDC).

According to Centers For Disease Control And Prevention More than 600,000 gay and

bisexual men are living with HIV in the United States, homosexuals account for 70% of new

HIV infections. The amount of sexually active gay and bisexual men are at risk of getting HIV is

492,000. At the end of 2014, an estimated 615,400 gay and bisexual men were living with HIV

and Of those, 17.3% were unaware of their infection. A year later (2015) gay and bisexual males

aged 13 to 24 accounted for 92% of new HIV diagnoses. People who dont know they have HIV

cannot get the medicines they need to stay healthy and prevent transmitting HIV to their partners.

Therefore, they may transmit the infection to others without knowing it. Most gay and bisexual

men get HIV through having anal sex without condoms or medicines to prevent or treat HIV.
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Anal sex is the riskiest type of sex for getting or transmitting HIV. Receptive anal sex is 13 times

as risky for getting HIV as insertive anal sex.

According to Cathy J. and Sherry Larkins:

Discordance between sexual identity and sexual behavior is not new; however, little

Is known about the HIV risk behaviors of heterosexually identified men who have

occasional sex with a male or male to female transgender woman. Among those who had

a sexual encounter with a transwoman , the majority(81.3%) were insertive partner during

anal sex. In comparison , among those who had a sexual encounter with a male partner,

almost one half (42.9%) were the receptive partner during anal sex.

This block quote is used to show that HIV can be attracted whether the person is a sex gender

changed or a natural male.

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Work cited

Aleccia, JoNel. Rates For Sexually- Transmitted Diseases Decline As Partners Get Free

Antibiotics Seattle Times, January 16. 2015

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/rates-for-sexually-transmitted-diseases-decline-as-par

tners-get-free-antibiotics/

Mayer, Kenneth H. Sexually Transmitted Diseases In Men Who Have Sex With Men

Clinical Infectious Diseases: an official publication of the infectious disease society of

American, December 2011, vol 53.