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Again, are you playing down the risk of catching HIV from unprotected, or inadequately protected, sexual intercourse?
No. I'm saying that you can have protected sex with an HIV positive person and remain uninfected.
The only thing being attempted to be played down here is condoms- even though they are extremely efficient and the best protection against STDs ever created. I wonder why that is...
not all gay men have anal sex, which is a nasty stereotype especially considering apparantly the proportion is similar to that of straight couples in reality
a larger proportion of gay people have hiv, but thats due to the a certain part of the gay community in the 80s mainly, these days the biggest increases in numbers and % is in heterosexual sex
and in many couples the girls are on pill, and guy uses condom when possible, thus having a extremely low chance of condom failure, and then you have add in chance to get infected and/or pregnant
the safest form of relationship is a non-sexual one which is what CoE has in use unless you are married
The Anglican Church is dealing with this issue, and it seems to be tearing them apart. I think what the Catholic Church is trying to do is take the bull by the horns to stop any damaging splis from emerging.
so instead of practising homosexuality, which i think they should be free to do as they wish, they do this instead
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/09/AR2006030902440.html
exactly llife's all about taking acceptable risks and 99% safety is good enough for me :thumb:
I think he's sugesting most priests are repressed homosexuals, and that their only real outlet is boys on the brink of being men.
If you put a normal 24 year old heterosexual man under orders to never have sex or even masturbate ever again and put him in charge of a group of 15-16 year old girls, it wouldn't come as a great shock to find him fucking one of them, would it?
Words written down or spoken aloud don't stop the sun from rising, the seas from tiding or normal heterosexual men from finding young women attractive in the absence of all other sexual outlets.
you really are raving mad aint you
Of course that's absolute bullshit.
That shit simply ain't right.
I certainly don't think paedophilia is linked to the abuser's sexual orientation. It might be the case that proportionally larger numbers of catholic priests are homosexual. But paedophiles are from all walks of life, and a great many of them appear to be straight, married, 'harmless' family members. The victims tend to be female just as much as male.
I think the priest molesting mostly boys is just a perception. In some particular cases priests would have far easier access to boys than to girls I would imagine, which would go to explain why there appear to be more boys than girls. But there have been several serial child abusing priest cases in the US recently, and IIRC there were as many girls as there were boys.
But that's a bit different to being a paedophile. As I understand it, paedophilia is a specific attraction towards younger people and specifically children. Finding 15-16 year old girls attractive in the absence of any other females (or males if you're gay) is quite normal. I don't think paedophilia is a result of not being able or allowed to 'get any' with people your own age, otherwise why would someone like Gary Glitter (who I assume wouldn't have a problem getting sex if he wanted) molest children (allegedly