Li Yinhe talks about sex

Chapter 34 Homosexuality and AIDS
Giving legal protection to homosexuals so that they dare to come out of the shadows to check their bodies is effective and the only way out.

According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, since the AIDS epidemic began, more than 2000 million people have died of AIDS in the world; currently there are 4000 million AIDS patients in the world, and 500 million new cases are added every year; nearly 14000 new infections occur every day More than half of them, that is, more than 7000 people, are young people under the age of 25.

Since 1995, the number of reported HIV-infected persons and patients in my country has risen sharply.Data show that since the first AIDS patient was discovered in my country in 1985, as of the end of June 2005, a total of 6 HIV-infected people had been reported nationwide, including 126808 AIDS patients and a total of 28789 deaths.At present, my country estimates that there are 7375 HIV-infected people, of which 84% are gay men.The HIV infection rate among gay men in Beijing, Harbin, Guangzhou, Shenyang and other places has reached over 11%. The 1 national epidemiological survey found that the proportion of homosexual men who had anal sex in the past six months had never used condoms was relatively large, such as 2003% in Changde and 42% in Xi'an.This group has a certain level of infection, high risk behavior, large population size, and the risk of AIDS epidemic cannot be ignored.

Although the relationship between homosexuality and AIDS in my country is small, it is worth noting that the views of gay men on AIDS in my country, the pressure from the outside world and the isolated situation of homosexuals are very unfavorable to the prevention and treatment of AIDS.There was an ambiguous saying in the world that AIDS was God's punishment for the abnormal sexual desire of homosexuals, which touched the fragile and sensitive nerves of homosexuals, and also involved the evaluation of homosexuality.

My questionnaire data shows that many survey respondents are worried and afraid of sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS, but most of them dare not go for examination or treatment, and most of them have not taken any disease prevention measures.The attitude of homosexuals in my country who are "fearful of seeing a doctor more than getting sick" will inevitably pave the way for the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS.From this point of view, if we really want to carry out serum monitoring to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, we have to seriously consider the legal status of homosexuals from the perspective of the health and safety of the whole society.Because as long as the police are still arresting these people, they will never voluntarily come for medical examinations, and they will never be able to find these people; only after it is legalized and made public, can they voluntarily undergo medical examinations.

This is a dilemma that legislators can only face up to and cannot avoid.If it is clearly stipulated to be illegal, then this group of people will definitely go underground. No matter how powerful the police force is, it is hard to catch—the vast majority of people will never be caught—so that the prevention and treatment of AIDS among this group of people can only rely on luck (I hope there will not be a large-scale epidemic); if the regulations are legal, this group of people may receive serological monitoring, thereby achieving the effect of preventing the spread of AIDS among this group of people.

We have also thought about a compromise method, but there are many difficulties and the prospects are bleak.For example, they are advised to do serum monitoring in consideration of their own health, but the facts have shown that they would rather not know when they are sick than reveal their identities; or in consideration of public health, let them make sacrifices, how can they be expected to risk How about making sacrifices for others with the danger of exposing one's identity and being arrested and reeducated through labor?This is also highly unlikely.Or assure them that people who do serology tests are protected by law from being arrested and sentenced, but how can they be expected to believe such assurances when the law does not clarify the legal status of homosexuality?This is the dilemma facing lawmakers.

In fact, the way out of the predicament is obvious: give homosexuals legal protection, so that they dare to come out of the shadows to check their bodies.This is valid and the only way to go.The legislators can be comforted by this: doing so will not harm anyone, nor will it harm society, and it will be beneficial to homosexuals, heterosexuals and society as a whole.

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