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and transmitted to the digestive system: According to the pro-homosexual text Anal Pleasure and
Health, "[s]exual activities provide many opportunities for tiny amounts of contaminated feces to
find their way into the mouth of a sexual partner... The most direct route is oral-anal contact."

Proctitis and Proctocolitis are inflammations of the rectum and colon that cause pain, bloody
rectal discharge and rectal spasms. Proctitis is associated with STDs such as gonorrhea,
chlamydia, herpes, and syphilis that are widespread among homosexuals...

HIV/AIDS Among Homosexuals. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is responsible for
causing AIDS, for which there exists no cure.

Homosexual men are the largest risk category. The CDC reports that homosexuals comprise the
single largest exposure category of the more than 600,000 males with AIDS in the United States.
As of December 1999, "men who have sex with men" and "men who have sex with men and inject
drugs" together accounted for 64 percent of the cumulative total of male AIDS cases...

A paper delivered at the Fourth International AIDS Malignancy Conference at the National
Institutes of Health reported that homosexual men with HIV have "a 37-fold increase in anal
cancer, a 4-fold increase in Hodgkin's disease (cancer of the lymph nodes), a 2.7-fold increase in
cancer of the testicles, and a 2.5 fold increase in lip cancer..."

Homosexuals with STDs Are at an Increased Risk for HIV Infection. Studies of MSM (Men
having Sex with Men) treated in STD clinics show rates of infection as high as 36 percent in
major cities. A CDC study attributed the high infection rate to having high numbers of
anonymous sex partners: "[S]yphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia apparently have been
introduced into a population of MSM who have large numbers of anonymous partners, which
can result in rapid and extensive transmission of STDs." The CDC report concluded: "Persons
with STDs, including genital ulcer disease and nonulcerative STD, have a twofold to fivefold
increased risk for HIV infection."

Anal Cancer: Homosexuals are at increased risk for this rare type of cancer, which is
potentially fatal if the anal-rectal tumors metastasize to other bodily organs.

Dr. Joel Palefsky, a leading expert in the field of anal cancer, reports that while the incidence of
anal cancer in the United States is only 0.9/100,000, that number soars to 35/100,000 for
homosexuals. That rate doubles again for those who are HIV positive, which, according to Dr.
Palefsky, is "roughly ten times higher than the current rate of cervical cancer..."

Lesbians are at Risk through Sex with MSM: The homosexual newspaper The Washington
Blade, citing a 1998 study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, reported that "the study's data
confirmed previous scientific observations that most women who have sex with women also have
had sex with men..." Lesbians have more male sex partners that their heterosexual counterparts.
A study of sexually transmitted disease among lesbians reviewed in The Washington Blade notes:
"Behavioral research also demonstrates that a woman's sexual identity is not an accurate
predictor of behavior, with a large proportion of 'lesbian' women reporting sex with (often high