quote:Originally posted by Wrinklesguy: So how many practicing sexually active gay men do you see in their 70's? ok, wait..bad visual..but probably not too many.
What does their sexual activity have to do with anything? The survey only talks about people being gay (as in their sexual orientation)...not about being sexually active at an old age.
Obviously there are gays and lesbians in their 70s...in fact a few days ago I just read an interview in the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" with a German gay couple in their 80s....they were positively amazed that same-sex couples can now legally get married in Germany....especially if you consider that less than 70 years ago the German Nazis murdered thousands of homosexuals in the concentration camps.
My housemate is a lesbian and has loads of friends who are gay or lesbian...most of them in their early 40s or even early 50s. I´m pretty sure many of them are going to live until they are 70 and older. (I´m mentioning this because the survey also talks about lesbians...apparently their average lifespan is only 46 years).
quote:Originally posted by Wrinklesguy: So how many practicing sexually active gay men do you see in their 70's? ok, wait..bad visual..but probably not too many.
My uncle is a gay man in his 60s and consequently I'm aware of quite a number of gays/lesbians who are in their 40s, 50s, and above.
Homosexuals have only really felt comfortable "uncloseting" themselves en masse over the last decade or two, as public tolerance has gradually eased up. Hence it's often the younger generations who are getting the most attention in the media and so forth. That fact may skew one's perception.
There was a time when average life expectancy in certain gay populations was indeed shorter than the hetero community, but the more generally accepted figures were more to the tune of 8 years shorter than the general population. However, most of these studies were done 15+ years ago and it's a fact that "deaths from HIV infection have declined dramatically in this population since 1996". A recent study of the gay population in Vancouver, for example, found that "there has been a threefold decrease in mortality in Vancouver as well as in other parts of British Columbia".
In other words, there was a spike in mortality during the initial period of HIV-ignorance, but education (and seeing one's friends pass away from AIDS) seems to have paid off considerably.
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Well, maybe the older generation of Gays are living long because they practice safe sex or have no interest in modern open sex? The younger generation is quite "open" and risky with themselves..trust me I've seen the parades they have in San Francisco {it's all over the news here when they have them} and there is nothing conservative or safe about their sex life {for the most part, not everyone is like that but ALOT are}. So a simple re-word of the question may have been necessary.
quote:Originally posted by ucflyeah: unreal. and non-gay people who put all this energy into fighting for this cause??
i just don't get it. if you're not gay, who cares?
it's like me with abortion. i'm a male and i practice safe sex so abortion will NEVER be an issue in my life, so what do i care???
sooooo much wasted energy
Unfortunately there is no 100% safe sex guarantee. Plenty of things come close but condoms are 95% safe (so that's a 1/200 chance! eek!). And the Pill has a much higher percentage... but nothing is 100% short of castration.
exactly taking every precaution doesn't come close to gauranteeing she won't get pregnant
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