‘Gay bowel syndrome’: relic or real (and returng) phenomen... : Current Opn Infect Diseas

Contents:

• WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.
• GAY BOWEL SYNDROME
• THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT
• 'GAY BOWEL SYNDROME': RELIC OR REAL (AND RETURNG) PHENOMENON?
• COLLECTIVE REVIEWTHE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT
• GAY BOWEL SYNDROME
• WHY IS HIV MORE COMMON IN GAY MEN
• THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME. A REVIEW OF LONIC AND RECTAL NDNS 200 MALE HOMOSEXUALS
• ‘GAY BOWEL SYNDROME’: RELIC OR REAL (AND RETURNG) PHENOMENON? : CURRENT OPN INFECT DISEAS

WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.

It has bee accepted wisdom most pole circl – as well as schools, ernment, rporate Ameri, and certaly the popular culture – that homosexual behavr is a normal and natural variatn of life. She wr, “In the 1970s, physicians were treatg the large number of ndns affectg the lower ttal tract of MSM unr the classifitn ‘gay bowel syndrome.

As Gabriel Rotello—thor of Sexual Elogy: AIDS and the Dty of Gay Men and founr of OutWeek Magaze—wrote, “sexual brotherhood of promiscuy … any abandonment of that promiscuy would amount to a munal betrayal of gargantuan proportns. Rotello also said, “A stranger to gay culture, unaware of the realy of AIDS, might believe om much of the gay prs that HIV fectn was a sort of elixir that produced high self-teem, solved long-standg psychologil and substance abe problems, and enhanced physil appearance … creatg the subnsc imprsn that fectn—the ‘penalty’ of unsafe sex—is really not so bad after all. O’Leary wr, “Gay bars, gay bookstor, theaters, certa rort muni, and circu parti have tradnally provid venu where MSM uld engage var forms of sexual activy wh numero partners.

GAY BOWEL SYNDROME

Gay bowel syndrome was first named as an illns 1976 the medil lerature via the journal Annals of Clil and Laboratory Science.

THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT

The abstract for the 1976 journal article published Annals of Clil and Laboratory Science entled The gay bowel syndrome: cli-pathologic rrelatn 260 s scrib gay bowel syndrome the followg manner:.

'GAY BOWEL SYNDROME': RELIC OR REAL (AND RETURNG) PHENOMENON?

A clil pattern of anorectal and lon diseas enuntered wh unual equency the homosexual patients is termed the gay bowel syndrome. In 2014, the medil journal Current Opn Infect Disease published a journal article entled 'Gay bowel syndrome': relic or real (and returng) phenomenon?

Purpose of Review: This article aims to review the term 'gay bowel syndrome', cludg the recent rearch lookg at creased rat of bowel fectns men who have sex wh men (MSM), particularly light of the recent Shigella outbreaks MSM London and New York, and nsirs whether 'gay bowel syndrome' is a syndrome that really exists and is worthy of further rearch and specific treatment, or whether the term ntu to be obsolete and not eful. Bartlett which stated that gay bowel syndrome is a signifint issue regards HIV fectn (In 2004, the Johns Hopks HIV Gui webse also featured a lerature review article about gay bowel syndrome by the John G. Gay bowel syndrome is a clil pattern of anorectal and lon diseas which occur wh unual equency homosexual patients (the diseas are not exclive to male homosexuals).

COLLECTIVE REVIEWTHE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT

Sohn and JG Robilotti Jr., who were among the thors of the prevly ced article the Annals of Clil and Laboratory Science wrote the Amerin Journal of Gastroenterology regardg gay bowel syndrome that "It is important to regnize homosexual patients and the ndns to which they are predisposed.

Michael Heller, who was a San Francis physician, wrote the Annals of Emergency Medice a article tled The Gay Bowel Syndrome: A Common Problem of Homosexual Patients the Emergency Department.

GAY BOWEL SYNDROME

Glen Hastgs and Richard Weber 1993 wrote the followg regardg gay bowel syndrome the peer reviewed medil journal Amerin Fay Physician: "The 1980s brought a regnn of gay bowel disease and s siari to flammatory bowel disease. Michael Heller's medil journal article the Annals of Emergency Medice entled The Gay Bowel Syndrome: A Common Problem of Homosexual Patients the Emergency stat regardg gay bowel syndrome the followg: "Frequently and promiscuy of sexual terurse is probably a major risk factor.

WHY IS HIV MORE COMMON IN GAY MEN

In 1985, the Medil Journal of Malaysia dited a journal entled Gay men bowel syndrome: A report of parasic fectn homosexual patients:. A September 2010 report of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) clared: "Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men (MSM) reprent approximately 2% of the US populatn, yet are the populatn most severely affected by HIV and are the only risk group which new HIV fectns have been creasg steadily sce the early 1990s.

THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME. A REVIEW OF LONIC AND RECTAL NDNS 200 MALE HOMOSEXUALS

However, subsequent attentn and study has been sparse, part attributed to rced equency thought to reflect changg practic by gay men rponse to the HIV epimic. Although homosexual men practice var sexual practic which may put them at risk, studi report that anal sex n be an important risk factor for the relay of many diseas. The feral Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) says homosexual men acunted for 65 percent of the nearly 12, 000 s of syphilis the Uned Stat 2007, makg them the “primary driver” of creased syphilis rat overall.

‘GAY BOWEL SYNDROME’: RELIC OR REAL (AND RETURNG) PHENOMENON? : CURRENT OPN INFECT DISEAS

In rpect to homosexualy and gonorrhea, Concerned Women of Ameri issued an article entled Health and Homosexualy which stated the followg: "In a study published by the Canadian Medil Associatn Journal 1991, '... [51] In Augt of 2007, the Norweigan medil journal Tidsskrift for n Norske laegeforeng stated that LGV has been a rare ndn the wtern world but sce 2004 there have been equent reports om larger ci Europe and the Uned Stat and the outbreaks have been limed homosexual men. " [53] The reports of levels of proctis the homosexual men fected wh lymphogranuloma venerm varied the different outbreaks of lymphogranuloma venerm.

Amoebiasis has bee enmic MSM Japan and signifint morbidy and mortaly; plitns such as lis and liver abscs occur more equently homosexual and bisexual men than heterosexual men. Fifty-six per cent of the male patients dited that they were practicg homosexuals, and 44% of the male patients nied the practic or left the qutn unanswered. Histolyti fectn almost exclively afflicted middle-aged mal the big ci of Japan, that a majory of the patients were probably exposed to the ative anism durg homosexual activy, and that an creasg number of patients will be -fected wh HIV.

In 1985, the peer reviewed medil journal Gut, which is an ternatnal medil journal for gastroenterology and hepatology, had an article entled The Gay Bowel thored by I V Weller which stated the followg: "Guardia lamblia and Entamoeba histolyti have long been regard as 'exotic' anisms, but are 'hyperenmic' among gay men attendg STD clics wh up to 20 excretg cysts.