WESTPORT, May 12 (LSN) – A Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted in 1995 found that teens who identified themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual are significantly more likely to engage in high- risk sexual behaviour and drug use, and to attempt suicide. The survey found that the 2.5% of youth who called themselves homosexual or bisexual were more than three times more likely to have attempted suicide in the past year, and more than nine times more likely to have injected drugs. Also, the heterosexual youth were significantly less likely to have been sexually active, and significantly less likely to have had multiple sexual partners. Dr. Robert Garofalo, of Harvard Medical School in Boston analyzed the results of the survey in the May issue of “Pediatrics” and called for “educational efforts, prevention programs, and health services must be designed to address the unique needs of gay/lesbian/bisexual youth.” He did not address another more obvious possible interpretation of the study: that homosexuality is itself a disorder, and that it is the root cause of the problems of drug use, promiscuity and suicidal tendencies so prevalent among homosexual youth. (Reference: Pediatrics 1998;101:895-902)
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WESTPORT, May 12 (LSN) – A Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted in 1995 found that teens who identified themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual are significantly more likely to engage in high- risk sexual behaviour and drug use, and to attempt suicide. The survey found that the 2.5% of youth who called themselves homosexual or bisexual were more than three times more likely to have attempted suicide in the past year, and more than nine times more likely to have injected drugs. Also, the heterosexual youth were significantly less likely to have been sexually active, and significantly less likely […]
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