Vicious Disease Raises New Health Concerns For Gays
If this is your way, then be extra careful. A new plague is emerging in the gay world.
on 01/16/2008 at 11:55 AM
I want to remind you all that this is a quote from the Bob & Tom Show…
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Sorry, couldn’t do it. If I posted that quote here Mr. C. would probably ban me.
Maybe on my blog, but I doubt that too.
Condoms take the worry out of being close.
Yes, I know they’re not 100%, but they sure do help a lot. Much better than bareback and let’s face it, abstinence has been a failure since biblical times. It may have a lot going for it spiritually, etc., but functionally, it just hasn’t worked. There have been a lot of folks enjoying relations outside of or without marriage for a long time.
Peiper - This post was about one particular strain of MRSA. There are plenty of others I’m sure. I’ll try to put this politely if I can ... the vector this variant of the virus uses is through broken skin; the association with homosexual behavior is that some of their activities can cause skin abrasions, and the virus gets passed when one person’s abraded area rubs against another person’s abraded area. That’s my understanding. And if the communities are rather closed, socially or at least recreationally, then the virus could go around and around the community and not escape.
Other variants of MRSA probably use the same infection vector; quite often when you hear about an MRSA case it concerns an athlete who was playing on a grass field. Cuts and scrapes happen in sports, and they get rubbed on the ground, and the virus gets in. A similar situation exists in hospitals - open wounds exposed to the virus - but I do not know if the viral variants in the hospitals use that vector. They may just be infecting people because their immune system is weakened, because those people are already very sick (or else they wouldn’t be in hospital to begin with, right?).
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