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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by Broken_Hippo on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:58PM (#28212098)
From personal experience, anal sex is definitely not limited to sex between men. I'm going to guess that there are entire websites dedicated to that, and there are definitely sections of porn websites dedicated to it. Additionally, sex between men encompasses much more than anal sex.

Which all goes back to teh point: HIV transmission isn't related to sexual orientation, even if some sex acts are traditionally attributed to one specific sort of orientation.

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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by barfingclouds on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:36PM (#28225359)
I feel like you aren’t queer because this isn’t what we think about it.

I’m bi, and hiv is a big deal in the gay community. I know people who have it, we have clinics around dedicated to treating people with it. Straight people can do anal, straight people can get it otherwise, but this is hitting gay/bi men way harder. It’s okay to acknowledge that

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Re:Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine by pavelrub on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:20AM (#28217747)
The argument you are addressing is a strawman. Nobody claimed that anal sex is limited only to sex between men. Anal sex is, however, far more common in frequency among homosexual men than between heterosexual couples, and significantly increases the risk of HIV transmission compared to vaginal sex, therefore it is a risk factor that is strongly correlated with sexual orientation.
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