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Originally Posted by Daradon
Actually this part is true, anal sex is more risky, just because the tissue is so much easier to damage. However this is not just the domain of gay men. Plus, it's a fallacy that all gay men engage in anal sex.
Something most doctors won't tell you (because it encourages bad practices) is that it's actually somewhat difficult (or at least the lowest of all methods) to get HIV through vaginal intercourse. HIV spreads most easily through blood. That's why needle sharing is so dangerous. That's why anal sex is riskier, because those tissues are more easily stressed.
I'm not saying don't wrap it up. You can still get HIV through normal vaginal sex for sure. I'm just saying, the way it was explained to me by one doctor, is that it's unlikely.
Plus you'll want to wrap it up to stop the spread of other STI's anyway.
I do want to say again, that this is a pretty weak argument against gay marriage though. There's danger in many things people do. Straight or gay, sexual or non-sexual. Doesn't make it wrong or bad.
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I'm not going to look it up so don't take my word for it, but I was told that if you have unprotected sex with a woman who is HIV positive, it is something like a 1/2000 chance of getting it. Oral sex is a theoretical risk, but even more unlikely.
Obviously, it is little consolation to someone who does contact it that way, but in reality, HIV isn't that easy to catch.
The only reason why I know this is because I had an HIV scare before and was forced to look into this stuff. I was tested several times over 2 years and never tested positive, but even to this day any time I get a cold or a rash (or any ailment), it's always in the back of my mind. It really sucks.