Gay blood donations ban likely to be lifted in UK

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axumblade said:

sapphi_snake said:

phinch1 said:

aha just do as you said before, don't try to reason with him, i agree with this 100% 

 

@Sapphi This is nothing to do with being "homophobic" its to do with low risk infection of the blood and higher risk infection of the blood and Homosexuality leads to a potentioal Higher risk of blood infection...so COMMON sense would be to take more precaution in dealing with higher risk of blood infection

Can you please explain to me how 'homosexuality leads to a potential higher risk of blood infection'?

It's moreso to do with anal sex than homosexuality if I remember correctly. There's a higher risk of infection/tearing in anal sex. Or that's what I've always heard. That could have just been an excuse I've heard time and time again to "justify" homosexuals being banned from giving blood.

The problem is that this ultimately leads to people getting banned for simply being gay, even though there otherwise isn't any reason they would be believed to be HIV positive. A HIV negative gay person who is in a monogamous relationship with another HIV negative person would be banned, while a heterosexual man who has had sex with a different woman every night for the past month would be qualified.