shirenomad | I must admit this is a new take on things.

In the 18th century, getting knocked over in the street too hard and getting even a scratch was sometimes fatal, because the cobblestone streets were coated with horse dung stains and discarded chamberpot contents. Should that injury get badly infected (as such materials in an open wound tend to do), you were pretty much doomed to, at best, have to amputate the injured area or suffer a slow and debilitating death. Even today, with modern medicine, we have sanitation laws for a reason -- antibiotics or no, infection of this type is extremely unpleasant.

Now picture a situation where someone regularly injures himself and exposes the open wound to fecal matter. Today, that person would be at constant risk of health problems. If it happened in the pre-antibiotic era, you've got someone who's got virtually no chance of living to a ripe old age, even in comparison to others from his time period.

Now picture it happening in Biblical times.

By now you've probably figured out where I'm going with this. I got this medical tidbit from a nurse, who can be considered a total liberal on almost every subject, but opposes any encouragement of the homosexual lifestyle because she's seen case after case of people with infections in, well, very personal areas. You've got two of the most sensitive regions of the body coming into direct contact, forcefully and in a way they weren't designed to do. There's going to be open wounds, and unless you had an enema right beforehand, there's going to be all the ingredients to infect it badly. Even without AIDS and other STDs and blood diseases entering the equation, it's literally not healthy.

But for the record, no, I am not saying homosexuals deserve what they get. I am saying that this is a real risk that many have no idea they're putting themselves through -- no more deserving of the results than a person deserves to get sick from drinking water a nearby industry has been secretely dumping waste into. But in both cases, the people in danger need to be told of the risk. And that's exactly what I'm doing.