Mariner said:...how did all these gay people get AIDS? Because they went to the cities, NY and SF especially. Why did they do that? Because their form of love was not acceptable at home.
Right - they were probably subjected to backwoods, unenlightened thinking like, "Male-on-male sex is unnatural, unclean, unsafe, and - therefore - unwise". What horrible stuff to have to listen to; it would be laughable - except that the truth of actual events appears to have borne this viewpoint out.
Mariner said:What if they had been able to have long-term, accepted relationships in their own communities? Well, then they wouldn't have had to travel, wouldn't have experienced the low self-esteem that leads to promiscuity, and wouldn't have caught AIDS.
Or, they could have considered the glorious possibility that the hometown bumpkins were RIGHT. They went to the cities in order to freely engage in behaviors their country neighbors considered unnatural, unclean, unsafe , and unwise - caught the disease which often results from such behavior - and now it's their NEIGHBORS' fault? This is pathetic, man.
Mariner said:In other words, a major driving force behind the AIDS epidemic is homopprobrium.
I think you mean, homosexuality.
Mariner said:Here's more food for thought. All those disease--e.g. measles, mumps, and rubella--which decimated the American Indians, were acquired by Europeans from their livestock. Were they having sex with their animals?
Mariner.
Had any of those diseases provably gotten a foothold in the human population via sexual perversion - as is the case with AIDS -, your question might have some relevance. They didn't, so it doesn't.