@LordDave
Citation please. Those are your opinions. Opinions I disagree with. Specifically that a lack of internet is responsible for the spread of AIDS and that infection rates have dropped as a result of its presence. Because I think you just made all that up.
It's not the internet specifically but a way to easily find other gay people.
Let's say everyone wore masks and large jackets so you couldn't tell who was a woman and who was a man. How would you go about finding a woman without asking everyone "are you a chick"?
Gay people have minced for hundreds of years. That voice they do is also a bit of a give away.
Ummm... not all gay men have some kind of high pitched voice. Most actually don't.
And yes they have. Yet AIDS didn't exist until the 1980s. How odd...
You haven't been reading my posts. You re wrong on every count.
Gay people have always had ways of letting other gay men know their intentions. Make no mistake about that. If you are interested in men, you'll notice when one shows an interest in you. You'll be looking for it.
Men and women have been doing that for centuries and screwing up every time. What makes you think Gay men are better at it?
And you missed the part about the fear. Fear of being discovered can make such signals hard to send out. You have to be very careful, otherwise you risk being exposed. I consider it equivalent to hitting on a married woman while her husband is in the room.
AIDS has been around since the 1930s but has only really been a problem since the 1960s. It only got scientifically identified in the 1980s when people started dropping down dead.
Ok so 50 years less of a few hundred (actually a few thousand considering the Greeks) isn't all that much. You'd think HIV would have come around sooner.
However as I showed with sources earlier, HIV isn't the only disease sodomy lines you up for. the odds of all kinds of diseases shoot up way way way beyond the equivalent risk in vaginal sex. Please take the time to catch up in this thread.
No, I read that part. I just find it irrelevant to the discussion of AIDS.
Also, how many of those diseases have no visible symptoms?
Also, it wasn't as taboo at various times in human history so propositioning a guy in say... England during the 1600 likely wouldn't get you stoned to death.
You don't know what you are talking about.
The Buggery Act of 1533 (25 Hen. VIII c. 6) was an English sodomy law which existed from 1534 to 1861 and made homosexuality punishable by death.
Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it isn't done. Or enforced, as your source indicates:
Nicholas Udall, a cleric, playwright, and Headmaster of Eton College, was the first to be charged with violation of the Act alone in 1541, for sexually abusing his pupils. In his case, the sentence was commuted to imprisonment and he was released in less than a year.
No death there.
The Act was repealed in 1553 on the accession of Queen Mary.
Repealed after only 20 years?!
However, it was re-enacted by Queen Elizabeth I in 1563.
Then brought back 10 years later.
Although "homosexual prosecutions throughout the sixteenth century [were] sparse" and "fewer than a dozen prosecutions are recorded up through 1660 . . . this may reflect inadequate research into the subject, and a scarcity of extant legal records."
Hmmm... less than 12 persecution in over 100 years? Doesn't sound like a law that was enforced very well. Or utilized. I mean, how exactly do you catch someone having anal sex when they don't do it in public?
Numerous prosecutions that resulted in a sentence of hanging are recorded in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Oh wait here we go. Wow, took you brits long enough eh?
Really Thork, I expected better of you than to post a king's law to justify the will of the people. Especially a law that had very little ability to be persecuted due to lack of evidence and could be no more than a witch hunt. Especially considering the evidence was mostly "my word against yours". Unless they went around measuring the assholes of those accused and see if it was "loose".