Of course not, they are propagated by poneis and unicorns. Nothing to do with having sex with multiple partners.
> Gay people do not have more sex partners than straight people.
You are deluded. Not only gay people have higher median number of sexual partners, but our sexual network is tighter, since fewer people are gay compared to straight. That's a perfect environment for sexual diseases to spread, which was the case with AIDS and more recently MPox.
On average, gay men will have more sexual partners than straight men. There's no reason to deny this.
https://www.psypost.org/2020/07/lgb-people-and-extraverts-te...
>transmit HIV by sharing needles
The vast majority of new infections are through gay men having sex. IV drug use only accounts for 7% of new infections
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/stat...
>but it exposes the flaw in this notion that gay people are sluts and sluts get STDs.
Your insecurities don't change the facts. Gay men have more sex and more sex leads to more STDs.
https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/sexual-and...
In the US.
The vast majority of infections (90%) in Africa are from heterosexual sex:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12665438/#:~:text=Abstract,a....
The primary driver of the enormous epidemic ongoing in Russia is by far IV drug users (and heterosexual sex):
https://www.politico.eu/article/everything-you-wanted-to-kno...
"Although needle-sharing among drug addicts was one of the main reasons the disease spread so quickly, most HIV transmissions in Russia — 57 percent — are now a result of heterosexual sex. Drug use is responsible for 40 percent, while gay sex accounts for around 3 percent, according to Russia’s Federal Research Center for AIDS Prevention and Control in Moscow."
The majority of people living with HIV worldwide are straight women (52%):
https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/hiv-and-aids/facts-and....
I agree with you that the claim from some people to make like sex and number of sexual partners has nothing to do with STDs is ridiculous. It annoys me a great deal.
Gay men are disproportionately at risk and affected due to number of partners and type of sex. But most people with AIDS are straight.
Anyway your LGB link is funny because it claims (I think out of confusion) that lesbians have more partners as well. But lesbians also have the lowest std rates of any group. Making them obviously the best and most morally superior of the orientations.
Obviously HIV can be spread by other vectors, that doesn’t make what I’ve said above not true. This is one of the most illogical comments I’ve seen in awhile, purely wishful thinking. Promiscuity is fine, but don’t be naive.
Once you're on the receiving end of these "averaged" generalizations, you realize that it's not a great idea to think that way or to try to rationalize using them. It's like the people that say things like "on average, black people commit more crime" and then use that oversimplification to justify racial bias.
(and yeah, i'm probably gonna be flagged for pointing out the logical fallacies that get propagated to justify systemic racism, misogyny, homophobia and slut-shaming, but i'm not gonna censor myself to avoid pointing out fallacious tropes in common discourse)
Did you take a second to google this idea you had to see if it made sense? No; because if you had, you'd have found that HIV is spread by blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, rectal fluids, vaginal fluids, breast milk. People who inject hormones, silicone, steroids, and drugs, can get or transmit HIV by sharing needles, syringes, or other injection equipment. It can be spread through pregnancy or stepping on an infected needle at the beach. It's often spread by not using protection during sex. And straight and gay people both get it.
Gay people do not have more sex partners than straight people. Promiscuous people do have more partners than non-promiscuous people. Gay, straight, bi, queer, etc, can all be promiscuous, just like they can all also be monogamous or even asexual. You may not like that de-simplification, but it exposes the flaw in this notion that gay people are sluts and sluts get STDs. It just doesn't work that way. Safe sex, even if you fuck a lot of people, makes you much less likely to get an STD than if you only occasionally had sex and never use protection. In countries with limited access to safe sex, all people across all demographics contract it. It's not just poor Africans and gay men, despite that being the unfortunately common misconception.