If homosexuality were preventable should it be prevented?

[Aractus]

Fair enough on the facts. It'll probably alter slightly again over the years, it always does when there's a concerted effort to slow the spread of a disease.

Still, however, I'm not sure how the spread of a disease is an argument against homosexuality. On the same level, we could argue that it's best for only lesbians to have sex, given that they have the lowest infection rate.

Were you the one arguing this point? I admit I forget who it was making that argument.

No I wasn't, lol.

In Australia we see that Aboriginal people are far more likely to be incarcerated for a crime compared with white people. This isn't an argument "not to be ethnic" though.

Aboriginal people shouldn't drink alcohol, it only causes problems for them. When the Europeans colonized Australia, alcoholism was one of the two main things that killed off a lot of the existing aboriginal populations. The other was being exposed to diseases that Aborigines had never had before. That's the reason, despite the fact that the Europeans tried to save them, that there are no more original Tasmanian Aborigines - they all died.

The fact that Aboriginal people shouldn't drink alcohol shouldn't be a reason to tell white people and other ethnic groups in Australia not to drink alcohol.

Given the statistics of the homosexual populations in Australia, it is very clear that the number of sexual partners in this group of people is high. In fact, even women who identify as exclusively lesbian (not bisexual) have more male partners on average than an heterosexual woman. For gays, however, the problem is compounded as you know. With anal sex there is a much higher risk of exposure to blood than there is with vaginal sex. This makes catching the vast majority of STI's a lot easier. Then there is the issue of monogamy - gays are far less monogamous than heterosexuals, and in most male-male relationships (in Australia) which both partners view as "exclusive" and "monogamous" at least one partner (if not both) is regularly having sexual contact with another person/people. So this reiterates the importance for the gay community in Australia of using condoms every time they have sex, and the importance of regular STI testing, even if you believe your relationship to be monogamous.