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William769

(55,147 posts)
Thu Apr 19, 2012, 03:16 PM Apr 2012

Conservative Group: Feds Spending Millions on 'Gay Porn' Website

The National Institutes of Health has spent millions of dollars over the past decade to fund the construction of an HIV-prevention website that, among other sexually explicit features, includes a graphic image of homosexual sex and a Space Invaders-style interactive game that uses a penis-shaped blaster to shoot down gay epithets.

The grant money went to a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota that created a site called Sexpulse. The goal was to draw in what are termed MISM -- or "men who use the Internet to seek sex with men" -- in order to educate them and ultimately reduce their risk of contracting HIV.

But the site used unorthodox methods to get subjects' attention and keep them interested. The site includes pornographic images of homosexual sex as well as naked and scantily clad men. It includes several risqué interactive features, like the Space Invaders-style arcade game.

The conservative Traditional Values Coalition, which flagged the government-backed research and described it as "gay porn," complains the website and studies are a multimillion-dollar waste.


Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/porn-sites/2012/04/19/conservative-group-feds-spending-millions-gay-porn-website#ixzz1sW12IdRg

I wish they would take some of that money & give me a subscription!

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Conservative Group: Feds Spending Millions on 'Gay Porn' Website (Original Post) William769 Apr 2012 OP
They must name names! Behind the Aegis Apr 2012 #1
If you can get men to play Gay Space Invaders for hours on end... Ian David Apr 2012 #2

Ian David

(69,059 posts)
2. If you can get men to play Gay Space Invaders for hours on end...
Thu Apr 19, 2012, 03:20 PM
Apr 2012

... then that leaves less time for gay sex, thus less of a chance they'll get AIDS?

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