Yeah, but the gross-out factor is 100% homophobia. Or, you know, the important 54%.

As mentioned above, it's not a policy based on great science. (Canada has just lowered its waiting period for men who have had sex with men from five years to one.)

Anonymous wrote:It has nothing to do with homophobia. Men who have sex with men are far more likely to have HIV than women who have sex with women.

This is a naive and uneducated response.

It has nothing to do with homophobia. Men who have sex with men are far more likely to have HIV than women who have sex with women.

Because this world still hates gay men, despite all the hiding behind politically correct causes and facades.

It doesn't matter that you tied a red ribbon to your car antenna in 1998 to show your support for AIDS sufferers.

The fact that you don't want our blood now in 2017 speaks volumes

Anonymous wrote:Because the risk of HIV transmission from male/male sex is much higher.

http://www.aidsmap.com/Estimated-risk-per-exposure/page/1324038/

But the risk of transmission for men who have safe sex with a small quantity of men or whom are monogamous in long term relationships is lower than a heterosexual man who has unprotected sex with many women. As a society we are okay with men loving other men and perhaps even kissing, but not okay with them actually having sex.

More:
http://www.poz.com/pdfs/P04-14p53.risk_transmission.pdf

Because the risk of HIV transmission from male/male sex is much higher.

http://www.aidsmap.com/Estimated-risk-per-exposure/page/1324038/

Why is it a woman can sleep with as many woman/men that she cares to but if a man should have any relations with another man, he is disqualified? They are already testing the blood, why exclude a group?