Lethality of Homosexual Practices

We can only wonder how many twenty-year-olds (who were five when AIDS first appeared in America) might have been spared had activists made it their number-one priority to protect individual lives rather than the gay lifestyle. For as the recent survey The Social Organization of Sexuality makes clear, the vast majority of youngsters who at some point adopt homosexual practices later give them up.

These young people, however, are the very ones told by educators to treat homosexuality as equally good — and safe — as heterosexuality.  In one typical incident in the Northeast, a generally liberal, nonreligious mother of a nine-year-old boy reported her son’s return home in tears from public elementary school.  He hung his head in embarrassment and shame and finally told his outraged mother how the teacher had explained to the class how to perform anal intercourse “safely.”

These courses are careful to avoid presenting anal intercourse as the predominantly homosexual practice that it is. . . .  Students are taught to accept homosexual behavior fully without being instructed as to its typical features and typical consequences.  But this subtle distortion of reality is minor compared to the major one that becomes common and lethal — that anal intercourse is safe so long as a condom is used.

The word lethal is deliberate.  Even before we have examined the evidence, I cannot stress too strongly that anal intercourse is not safe for anyone, under any circumstances.  As the evidence makes abundantly clear, anal intercourse is a terribly dangerous practice whose dangers mount with the frequency and multiplicity of partners, conditions that predominate among male homosexuals.  Gay activism is critical in the arena of education.  Teachers of youth should surely consider carefully before advising a course of action that in thousands of cases has led to preventable death.

Jeffrey Satinover, M.D., Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth, p.22-23