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- Wednesday, 28 October 2009
OBSESSION
The medical profession controls and monitors gay behaviour with a compliant gay hierarchy. It is funded by government as long as universities and pharmaceutical companies continue to canvas and monitor gay, private, consensual sexual activity with the emphasis on HIV transmission.
If the paradigm is continually one of dis-ease, the result will be dysfunctional and diseased. I would suggest that paradigm has lost its potency. The ‘law and order’ approach to transmission prevention is worthy of the McCarthyist show trials that preached fear, humiliation and subjugation of the individual to the state, with lives being ruined. Young gay men on the other hand may be less interested in being so compliant with their private life. What you may call drug-addled reckless behaviour may be a dawning recognition that no government, no doctor, no health department, no law enforcement agency has any business constantly monitoring and violating – the human rights of a minority group.
This obsession and pathologising of one facet of being gay appears to colour all government policy. You don’t have to be a statistician to realise tabloid headlines such as ‘HIV rates soar among young gays’ (The Age October 11, 2009) are ludicrous. So what are the figures? ‘Two years ago, 43 new cases in the 20-29 age group were diagnosed. Last year it was 56.’ And this is in a population of 20 million Australians?
This is hardly a pandemic and just maybe it begs the question of why so much hype is being spent to fuel such headlines and why it is worthy of criminal prosecution. Smell a rat? Sure do. ‘We can’t get the queers for having gay sex no more, but we can get the poz ones instead.’ You join the dots. Our medical ‘friends’ and police we love to march with in parades are at it again!
What other community has to put up with this nanny state interference in its private personal life? The ‘concern?’ over new infections is laudable — the obsession is not.
— Jack
RESPONSIBILITY
I have no fear of having sex with HIV positive people. My late partner was HIV positive for 10 years before he died suddenly from an AIDS-related lymphoma.
There are plenty of young, depressed, drunk or drug-fucked individuals who for whatever reason are not always safe-sex compliant. The burden of responsibility should be on us all to protect these individuals.
If you are HIV positive you have an added responsibility as you have the ability to infect your partner with a potentially deadly virus.
— Chris
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