Homosexual relationships (married or not married) are ultimatley beneficial to society.

you seem very knowledgeable and it is a pleasure to debate this with you. i will attack the route the PRO has taken throughout this debate, attack the claims the PRO has made against my case while reaffirming my case simultaneously. II. Homosexual relationships encourage promiscuity, leading to the spread of aids. my opponent's first attack on this point went through explaining that the studies done by Barry adams were not representative of the whole, however it was for this reason-to enhance diversity and demonstrate a more accurate view- that i provided several different studies pertaining to the same subject, promiscuity within homosexual relationships. i will include more to further emphasize my point. - nationally representative survey of 884 men and 1,288 women published in the Journal of Sex Research found that 77 percent of married men and 88 percent of married women had remained faithful to their marriage vows. (Wiederman in 97) -telephone survey conducted for Parade magazine of 1,049 adults selected to represent the demographic characteristics of the United States found that 81 percent of married men and 85 percent of married women reported that they had never violated their marriage vows(PR Newswire 94) in comparison to -The Dutch study of partnered homosexuals, which was published in the journal AIDS, found that men with a steady partner had an average of eight sexual partners per year (AIDS Magazine 94) -A survey conducted by the homosexual magazine Genre found that 24 percent of the respondents said they had had more than one hundred sexual partners in their lifetime. The magazine noted that several respondents suggested including a category of those who had more than one thousand sexual partners ( Lambda Report, January 1998) -In their study of the sexual profiles of 2,583 older homosexuals published in the Journal of Sex Research, Paul Van de Ven et al. found that "the modal range for number of sexual partners ever [of homosexuals] was 101-500. " In addition, 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent had between 501 and 1,000 partners. A further 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent reported having had more than one thousand lifetime sexual partners. (Van de Ven 97) the second attack my opponent has made against my 1st contention in this round has been in the attempt to discredit the classic Bell and Weinberg study of 1978, and while this tangible piece of evidence may be in the past, it is not obviously not outdated, for promiscuity is still an ideal that is evidently being accepted and practiced within a large portion of the homosexual community. "Gay culture allows men to explore different forms of relationships besides the monogamy coveted by heterosexuals" (adams 03) additionally, just because the study has been done in 1978 does not negate the validity of the other studies and sources used in this round. the third attack against my first contention stands to be the fact that my opponent believes that there are large discrepancies between unmarried and married homosexual couples. however research indicates that it isn't what type of relationship, its more the ideology taught within homosexual culture. hayton in 03 states that "Homosexuals. .. are taught by example and belief that marital relationships are transitory and mostly sexual in nature. Sexual relationships are primarily for pleasure rather than procreation. And they are taught that monogamy in a marriage is not the norm [and] should be discouraged if one wants a good "marital" relationship what's further, is while the rate of fidelity within marriage cited by these studies remains far from ideal, there is a significant difference between the negligible lifetime fidelity rate cited for homosexuals and the 75 to 90 percent cited for married couples. This indicates that even "committed" homosexual relationships display a fundamental incapacity for the faithfulness and commitment that is axiomatic to the institution of marriage. " the complete attack against my HIV/ AIDS argument has been backed up by three arguments which i will contend now. 1. no link between aids and homosexuality the link is found in promiscuity within homosexual culture. it is an undisputed fact that sexual promiscuity generally puts individuals who are promiscuous in grave risk of getting the disease. additionally, The journal AIDS reported that men involved in relationships engaged in anal intercourse and oral-anal intercourse with greater frequency than did those without a steady partner. Anal intercourse has been linked with a host of sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. (Coxon 93) 2. the CON has neglected lesbian relationships in this round i suppose the evidence that i have given out has been a tad one sided towards homosexual men. however, to make the claim that i have not included any evidence pertaining to female homosexual relationships is completely untrue. further on, evidence indicates that The assumption that lesbians involved in exclusive sexual relationships are at reduced risk for sexual disease is false. The assumption that lesbians involved in exclusive sexual relationships are at reduced risk for sexual disease is false "The journal Sexually Transmitted Infections concludes: "The risk behavior profile of exclusive WSW (women who have sex with women) was similar to all wsw. " One reason for this is because lesbians "were significantly more likely to report past sexual contact with a homosexual or bisexual man and sexual contact with an IDU (intravenous drug user). " 3. lack of education real problem while i do agree with my opponent that lack of sex education plays a large role in HIV/AIDS. the level of promiscuity seen within homosexual culture, and shown to you through statistics provided, is something that no sort of sexual education will cure. notice that i am in no way advocating that every homosexual person has aids, nor am i advocating that every homosexual is promiscuous, however, what i am advocating is that promiscuity is an ideal generally accepted within gay culture and ideology. (provided sources for that claim earlier in both rounds) the plain fact is that sexual promiscuity increases the spread of HIV/AIDS and the risk of being diagnosed with such. additionally, even if my opponent had proved to you that the statistics for promiscuity were less than i've shown in this debate round, my opponent concedes the fact that the statistics are still there, ultimately saying that homosexuality does more harm to society than good. deeming the resolution FALSE. i win this point. II intimate partner violence my opponent has attacked this contention through merely stating that we cannot conclude on domestic violence polls because the results are unattainable, however, he has not provided any evidence that shows correlation between different sexual orientations and their willingness to report abuse. my evidence still stands. he attacked this point secondly with stating that 50 percent of all victims report domestic violence. however, there were no statistics on what percentile of those were homosexual. according to the U. S. Department of Justice: Office of Justice Programs, in total victimized individuals 40 percent of homosexual females, and 23 percent of homosexual males report abuse, comparatively to 22 percent hetero females, and less than 9 percent of males. again the evidence is right before you, showing that intimate partner violence is more common in homosexual relationships than in hetero. III. i am running out of characters so i will shortly contend his third attack, he argues that there is a variety of genetic and environmental factors that could lead to suicide. reread eviden I contend that the tests were done with identical twins to rule out biases, and that the correlation lies within homosexuality.