Is homosexuality dangerous to society? The answer depends on what constitutes a danger. What is dangerous is what causes undue harm and suffering among the general population. Let’s take a look at homosexuality and see if it is beneficial or harmful to society. Let us look at a country where sex is not a taboo, where sexual awareness and health awareness is much more than that of India. A country that is ahead of India in every field. United states.
Let’s start with disease and see what the statistics teach us.
Disease
2% of U.S. population is homosexual male, yet it accounts for 61% of HIV infection: “Men who have sex with men, (MSM), remain the group most heavily affected by new HIV infections.
While the CDC estimates that MSM represent only 2 percent of the U.S. population, they accounted for the majority (61 percent; 29,300) of all new HIV infections in 2009. Young MSM (ages 13 to 29) were most severely affected, representing more than one quarter of all new HIV infections nationally (27 percent; 12,900 in 2009).”
[Ref:Center for Disease Control, cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/ HIVIncidencePressRelease.html]
“A recent CDC study found that in 2008 one in five (19%) MSM in 21 major US cities were infected with HIV, and nearly half (44%) were unaware of their infection.” [Ref: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/msm/index.htm).]
25% of HIV infected in U.K. unaware of their infection: “Of the estimated 86,500 people living with HIV in the United Kingdom, about 25 percent are not aware they are infected, the Health Protection Agency said recently.” [ Ref: The Body, thebody.com/content/art59714.html]
Clearly, the disease statistics related to a homosexual lifestyle prove that such a lifestyle is harmful not only to themselves, also to others, especially when you note that in both the U.S. and U.K. large percentages of HIV infected people don’t know they are infected. This is a danger to society since it supports the spread of disease on a large scale.
Apart from HIV, homosexuals are more prone to get several other STD (sexually transmitted disease) like Herpes, Hepatitis A, B , Human Papillomavirus (HPV – few types can lead to cancer), Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) and many more.
Needless to mention in a country like India where people lack even basic sexual education and health awareness , it is even more dangerous.
Financial Impact
$12.1 Billion annual cost in US: “Future treatment for the 40,000 people infected with HIV in the United States every year will cost $12.1 billion annually, a new study showed.” (msnbc.msn.com/id/15528984/ns/health-aids/t/new-us-hiv-cases-cost-billion-year/)
$1.5 Billion Cost for 2001 in Canada: “June 2001, Halifax, Nova Scotia— HIV/AIDS cost Canadians more than $2 billion in 1999 in direct and indirect costs. Health care costs accounted for about $560 million; prevention, research and supports to AIDS victims for about $40 million; and lost economic production due to premature death and disability for nearly $1.5 billion.” (gpiatlantic.org/releases/pr_cost_aids.htm)
The financial drain on society due to the medical costs of HIV is huge. The greater the impact, the more damage it does to the society’s financial stability.
One can imagine the financial impact in India where number of HIV infected people are more and value of rupee compared to dollar is falling every day.
Mental Health
How is the mental health of homosexuals and lesbians? Does it have the same bell-curve as the rest of society? No, it does not. Take a look at these statistics and note that the mental health issues are not due to social pressure and rejection by the majority of society who considers homosexuality to be aberrant.
“homosexuals are about 50% more likely to suffer from depression and engage in drug and substance abuse than the rest of the population,” reports Health24.com.
The risk of suicide jumped over 200% if an individual had engaged in a homosexual lifestyle, the lifespan of a homosexual is on average 24 years shorter than that of a heterosexual.
Someone may argue that homosexuals may be pushed to drugs,substance abuse and suicide because of anti-homosexual cultural and family pressures, empirical tests have shown that there is no difference in homosexual health risk depending on the level of tolerance in a particular environment.
Homosexuals in Denmark – which is acknowledged to be highly tolerant of homosexuality – die on average in their early 50’s, or in their 40’s if AIDS is the cause of death. The average age for all residents in either country ranges from the mid-to-upper-70s.”
(Ref: onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=255614)
Sexual Molestation
Higher sexual molestation with homosexual parents: “A disproportionate percentage — 29 percent — of the adult children of homosexual parents had been specifically subjected to sexual molestation by that homosexual parent, compared to only 0.6 percent of adult children of heterosexual parents having reported sexual relations with their parent.
Having a homosexual parent(s) appears to increase the risk of incest with a parent by a factor of about 50.” (P. Cameron and K. Cameron, “Homosexual Parents,” Adolescence 31 (1996): 772″ (exodusglobalalliance.org/ishomosexualityhealthyp60.php).
Certainly, no one wants children molested by adults. Society needs to protect its children, not subject them to sexual pressures and molestation. However, the homosexual lifestyle clearly presents an increased threat to children.
Sexual Promiscuity
Sexual promiscuity helps support the spread of disease. What are the promiscuity statistics of the homosexual community? Shockingly bad!
28% of homosexual men had more than 1000 partners: “Bell and Weinberg reported evidence of widespread sexual compulsion among homosexual men. 83% of the homosexual men surveyed estimated they had had sex with 50 or more partners in their lifetime, 43% estimated they had sex with 500 or more partners; 28% with 1,000 or more partners. [Ref: Bell and Weinberg p 308.” (exodusglobalalliance.org/ishomosexualityhealthyp60.php)
Low rate of sexual fidelity among homosexuals. “There is an extremely low rate of sexual fidelity among homosexual men as compared to married heterosexuals. Among married females 85% reported sexual fidelity. Among married men, 75.5% reported sexual fidelity. Among homosexual males in their current relationship, 4.5% reported sexual fidelity.
[Sources: Laumann, The Social Organization of Sexuality, 216;
McWhirter and Mattison, The Male Couple: How Relationships Develop (1984): 252-253; Wiederman, “Extramarital Sex,” 170. This is extracted from http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02) ]
Does anyone think that such mind-blowing promiscuity is healthy for any society, especially when the homosexual community is particularly subject to HIV infection? Homosexuals are members of society, and their behavior, which is a manifestation of their “orientation,” is extremely dangerous.
By: Debashis
General Secretary, Rationalists’ and Humanists’ Forum of India
RATIONALIST DEBASHIS 
Homosexuality is the greatest curse of the human society. We every body should hate
it & to build up strong protesting movemovement against it. No country should allow & approve it.
It’s called the government is already doing that and if homosexuality is a curse lets look at other dangers we have affecting society.
If being attracted to a man is worse than all the murders, every attempt at theft, and every other problem we as people face in our society, you need to re-evaluate yourself.
Dr Khalil, no the greatest curse to society is people like you who hate gay people for no logical reason. we should make a movement against people who think irrationally like you. no country should allow this way of thinking, nor should they approve it..
SIMPLY NO TO HOMOSEXUALITY
Homosexuality is a mental illness
“Most homosexuals don’t want to be homosexual, anymore than a schizophrenic wants to hear voices. A highly respected colleague quietly told me that he cures 80% of the homosexuals that come to him
and it’s curable too.
I completely agree. Homosexuality is a perverse conduct. I hate the problem not the person but it just shows how far out of its way society has gone. Now paedophiles are moving for the same rights as gays, and soon, I’m sure with how bad things are going, they’ll be granted. Disgusting.
no. just no.
Every single one of your points draws a correlation but doesn’t back it up with any sort of causality. Does homosexuality cause HIV, for instance? Let me ask it another way: does being black cause HIV? Does being a woman cause HIV to be more prevalent? Statistics bear all of these three out but, without causality, they are not evidence. At the end of the day, homosexuality is neutral until proven otherwise and, thus far, no such proof exists.
Homosexuality causes an increase of spreading HIV. No one implied that it caused HIV itself.
“Homosexuality causes an increase of spreading HIV. No one implied that it caused HIV itself.” – This statement is backed up by the fact that gay men are among those most affected by HIV in the Western and First World.
“Being black causes an increase of spreading of HIV. No one implied that it caused HIV itself.” – This statement is backed up by the fact that, of the different races, black people are the ones who suffer the most, worldwide, from HIV.
“Being a woman causes an increase of spreading of HIV. No one implied that it caused HIV itself.” – This statement is backed up by the fact that women are at greatest risk of the two biological sexes for catching HIV due to their biology (they receive and take in seed, which, if infected, makes them more likely to contract HIV than a man).
All three of these statements are equal. None have causality to back them up. That is the problem with this whole article and your reply. Without causality you cannot claim that homosexuality is dangerous to society and, thus, your and the author’s point is undone.
You have provided a proper counter argument with an substantial evidence, so your premise is illigitamate.
OH PLEASE I bet this was written by someone who hasn’t done proper research and is a die-hard homophobe!
if homosexuals have less sexual fidelity than heterosexuals, how come most divorces are between men and women??
“Homosexuals are more likely to be depressed than heterosexuals”
Dude, of course they are because of YOU GUYS BEING SO INTOLERENT AND HATEFUL OVER IT! So you only use one place, Denmark to cover your case, it’s only ONE COUNTRY that you cover! Oh so Ok ok why not say that “black people are more likely to be depressed in life and it’s not because of huge intolarence” and use Africa to cover your case!
“Gays are more likely to spread HIV” Oh great here we go again with the stereotype nonsense!
How does simply having 2 penises spread HIVs?? Seriously!
“Sexual molestation is more common in homosexual parents”
Dude, while it’s true that we hear of men raping small boys that does not mean that they are gay! They just think that they can get away with overpowering a young boy over a young girl because they think boys are less likely to report it!
And I agree with WhoCares on this subject.
We don’t need anymore intolerance from gay haters!
@seriously , u stated that the writer is a homophobe and has not done proper research. however u did not substantiate ur statement. the pont u raised r lill more than silly.
1. how come most divorces r between men n women. .. bcos no of heterosexual couples r more than homosexual couples.
2. denmark is given an eg to justify that in denmark people r not intollenet towards homosexuality , still homosexuals in that country sufer from depression. Denmark is not the only country. USA, Canada , UK are other egs..
3. r u aware that in africa they suffer from extreme poverty? lack of education system, medical system . not even drinking water. so u know the reason.
4. Most of teh gay couples lead a high promiscuous life. added with drug usage. using the same sex toy on multiple partner without even sterilizing enhances the risk of HIV and STDs.
5. what makes u think that boys are less likely to report than girls? rather girls r less likely to report about molestation.
Gay people have AIDS.
You havent provided a counter argument with any form of reasonable doubt.
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