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So even assuming that this very old meme was ever true to any significant degree (why would you think it is?), do you really think straight people are anywhere near as likely to engage in anal sex with massive numbers of partners like gays are? Do you know how gay bath houses used to work? A guy could go to one of those and have anal sex with a dozen men in a day. And then go back the next day or next week for a different dozen men. It was so bad that San Francisco only allowed them to reopen like two years ago, having originally forced them shut in the 80s. San Francisco!

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I assume a lot of gay men are informed of the risks and opt for alternatives like oral and/or hand jobs on the regular.

Attended a catholic private school growing up in an extremely conservative+religious part of the midwest, not really interested in divulging anything more personal than that on the subject. But I can confirm it's not a pure myth.

I'm firmly against woke culture, where you'd be attacked personally for writing up some homophobic vitriol. I don't want to live in a place like that, and I won't go anywhere near San Francisco.

Instead, here's a reminder that being prejudiced is quite normal. It's easier to associate gay people with promiscuity, to connect those dots, than to think of people differently along so many axioms of different traits.

I'm reminding myself as well. Can't judge another with one finger without the remaining fingers pointed at myself (well except for the thumb).

No prejudice here. Some gay people are promiscuous. Some straight people are promiscuous. Some straight people have anal sex. Some gay people have anal sex.

But what's also true is that gay people on average are much more promiscuous and much more likely to have anal sex. This is obvious to anyone who knows any significant number of gay people. And it is also reflected in countless surveys.

As a bisexual, I've met more promiscuous women than men.

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