On July 21, by unanimous vote, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance to amend the city’s existing health code to do away with two rules for sex clubs. These rules were put in place in 1984, at the height of the AIDS crisis. The limitations on bathhouse conduct (i.e., no locked doors, supervised sex) meant that most bathhouses closed. One rule was a requirement that the clubs could no longer have private rooms or locked doors in areas reserved for sex. The other was that management had to monitor sexual activity. The ostensible reason, believe it or not, was to help San Francisco’s economy.
The meeting at which the supervisors voted is available online. It’s notable for the fact that the clerk reading out the wording of the proposed ordinance could not stop herself from giggling as she read about the new requirement to stop monitoring patrons’ sexual activities. The new ordinance was passed without discussion.
I happen to know a lot about bathhouses because I worked for some virologists in the early 1980s, when AIDS was first making itself known. The researchers hadn’t yet isolated HIV, so the disease was still quite mysterious. They did know one thing, though: this mysterious “gay disease” was running like wildfire through the gay community, especially in the bathhouses.
It was while working for the virologists that I learned what was going on in the bathhouses: men used poppers (isoamyl nitrite) so they could have some form of sexual contact with dozens of other men per night. The men weren’t just trading HIV; they were trading every existing sexually transmitted disease. Moreover, the “live shows” weren’t theatrical spectacles. They were orgies in which participants rested up while watching each other.
Think about this: the City of San Francisco has been subjecting everyone to the most stringent shutdown requirements for months, destroying the city’s economy and ruining people’s livelihoods. Meanwhile, it’s already getting its ducks in a row to enable gay men to engage in the type of behavior that spread a disease that has killed 692,790 Americans, almost all from the narrow demographic of gay men. (AIDS has killed around 32 million people worldwide since the early 1980s.) Currently, around 1.1 million people in America are HIV-positive, with 6,000 AIDS-related deaths in 2018 alone.
Full story at The American Thinker.
Other than the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, who actually believes that an active homosexual lifestyle is private, victimless, and healthy? Those who inevitably contract HIV/AIDS will not blame politicians for enabling their behavior, but rather the Catholic Church, for not giving their sexual sins an imprimatur.
Kristin, my friend, almost no one contracts HIV/AIDS anymore because of the succes of people like Dr. Fauci who has championed the delivery of anti-retroviral therapies. Thanks be to God.
They get it, they just don’t die from it because the medication helps.
Corey, only 166 San Franciscans were diagnosed with HIV infection last year, about 2/3 of them being gay or bisexual men. That is down by two thirds in 10 years. There is massive public education, testsing and prophylaxis here, in an effort to “Get to Zero”.
“YFC”, the bath house culture breeds sin and disease and drug therapies will not keep unrepentant sinners from hell. Duty bound to tell you this, friend.
According to HIV.gov “According to the latest estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 36,400 new HIV infections occurred in the United States in 2018. Annual infections in the U.S. have been reduced by more than two-thirds since the height of the epidemic in the mid-1980s.” The goal, through testing, treatment, and prevention is to eliminate spread entirely, and we have the tools to do that. In places like San Francisco, we have almost done that already. Will you join us?
YFC, you claim to be Catholic yet you defend the existence of these dens of filth.
Join you in what, ignoring sin and insisting on more places to commit it? If you were truly committed to prevention you would demand the closure of these dens of iniquity.
I am asking you to join me in testing, treatment and prevention in order to stamp out HIV. That is what I am asking you to join me in. Or are you opposed to the proven methods of testing, treatment and prevention?
You want prevention YFC???,,, then gays should stop violating the natural law….
If you have been on the CDC website, then you know that in the US 69% of the recent infections and 86% of all cases are among males who have sex with males. It affects blacks and Hispanics disproportionately. Rates of infection are down 7%, because of a decrease in the infection rates in whites and multiracials. It has gone up among Native Americans and Hawaiians and US territories.
Among the age group of 13-24, 83% of new infections are gay males. Some are also drug users.
Most who become infected with it are under 45 years of age.
It is estimated that 1 in 7 people affected, don’t know they have it.
24% of new cases are from heterosexual contact.
love the sinner, hate the sin. There are medications which significantly reduce the risks of aids.
Don’t do it, SF! Don’t go there if they allow it! smh
It is a lifestyle that courts disease and death. In its perverted way, it loves disease and death.
Could this be from no other source except the demonic?
I don’t understand. I thought they cared about homosexuals. Making it easier to engage in sodomite behavior makes them more susceptible to Covid no? Did they forget the MSRA that swept through them years ago?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-staph-men/drug-resistant-staph-found-to-be-passed-in-gay-sex-idUSN1337175820080114
Actually it may be that the Anti virus preventative measure might protect gay people from COVID.
Or they will get covid and AIDS
Lucas it doesn’t matter what new virus or disease is discovered. These people are complete slaves to their passions, reason does not matter, all that matters is sex and lots of it with as many different men as they can find.
From my view from the first presentations of AIDS/HIV to the present, the bottom line for so many was fear of the disease spreading. At first, AIDS was praised as the “gay cancer”, meaning that only gays were getting it and that there was a divine reason that they should die for their actions. However, once supposedly heterosexuals, especially those in marriages, started coming down with the disease, suddenly it was known that the disease was getting (as it always was) among the heterosexual groups because some were either closeted gays or somehow coming in contact with someone who did (one friend knows the prostitute he hired was exposed, didn’t know she had it, and then he got AIDS from her.) The bottom line was the Church wasn’t prepared to accept that some of its congregants were gay, so there was a big push to reemphasize the Church teachings on the subject, so instead of getting help and hope for AIDS victims, overall it was blaming them and allowing them (even hoping?) that they were die en masse to eliminate the disease, reduce the gay population, and toate it as a holy sign. We should have been in the front of helping our local committees instead of banning them.