TORONTO, June 14, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â Todd Klinck, a homosexual writer for a Toronto magazine for gays called FAB, wrote an article published in the National Post today calling attention to the deadly use of the party drug crystal methamphetamine in the gay community.ÂÂKlinck notes that the drug is of major concern and its consequences for the health of the community extremely serious. In the article, Klinck also inadvertantly gives a revealing insight into the unapologetic promiscuity and use of other drugs by Klinck and other sexually active Toronto gays.
KilinkÂwrites that crystal methamphetamine is having a “devastating effect” on America’s gay communities because it “makes gay men engage in really stupid and risky sexual practices … and in an insatiable and obsessive quest for as much sex with as many people as possible”. Crystal meth is known to lower inhibition and increase sensation. Mr. Klink implies that it decreases the use of the condom and therefore increases the spread of HIV/AIDS. The 30-year-old Klinck has believed that his generation, thanks to “safer sex”, would outlive gays of past generations, but that crystal meth. was altering that hope.
Dr. John Shea, MD, FRCP, in a letter to the editor responding to Klinck’s article points out that Klinck “does not seem to realize how exceedingly dangerous ‘safer sex’, that is, sex with a condom, actually is.” Dr. Shea notes, “The National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Workshop on Condom Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Disease (July, 20, 2001) shows that there was no proof that the use of the condom was associated with risk reduction for infection by chlamydia, genital herpes, human papilloma virus (which causes almost all cases of cancer of the uterus in women), syphilis or hepatitis B virus (which causes liver failure and cancer of the liver).” Dr. Shea continued, “Condom use lowered the incidence of gonorrhea by 13.7% in men and by 2% in women. Used consistently, it lowered the spread of HIV, which is almost invariably fatal, by 85%.”
He concludes, “Condom use, therefore, gives a false sense of security and must encourage risk-taking, as apparently also does the use of crystal meth. Sexual promiscuity, either heterosexual or homosexual, is irresponsible and deadly. Yes, do not use crystal meth. Yes, also, do not be promiscuous. Nature bites back. ‘Safer sex’ are the two most dangerous words in the English language.”
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