Risk factor for sexually transmitted infections you mean? We know how to avoid spreading them: get tested regularly, and use barriers when necessary. The number of partners is less important than those two. If you don’t do the first two, even one partner can be a problem.

Sure, but if you don't do the first two, your risk increases linearly with the number of partners.

The relevance really comes down do what question you are trying to answer.

If you want to know what factors have the biggest impact on reducing transmission, you will get one answer.

If you want to know what populations are at higher risk and what are they doing different, you will get another answer.

It’s less socially acceptable to shit on gay people directly nowadays, so some people use topics like the one you are mentioning as “proxy wars”, so to speak, where they can indirectly express their distaste.

Not saying you are doing this, but by bringing it up, some people might think that’s what you are doing. I feel like I have seen it often enough that it is a fairly reasonable concern.

Is there a specific reason you are focusing on this issue, out of all of the thousands of issues you could choose to care about?

> Is there a specific reason you are focusing on this issue, out of all of the thousands of issues you could choose to care about?

I am not focusing on it. I am just bringing it up on a thread where it seemed appropriate to. One person can care about more than just one issue at a time.

>The sheer amount of sexual partners the average gay/bisexual man has, in comparison to straight ones, is, in my eyes a huge risk factor.

Ride a jet ski wind up in the water.

If the tradeoff wasn't worth it they wouldn't do it.