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by koheripbal 2213 days ago
There are still a lot people spreading the misinformation that hetero sex is as risky as anal sex, because they have some odd agenda to push.
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You understand heterosexual people have anal sex too, right? It's become quite trendy.
Everyone here knows precisely what was being discussed. Me, the writer, you. Why quibble?
I suppose I should have written "vaginal sex". ...but the majority of hetero sex is still penis-in-vagina so I think my comment is still mostly correct.

The fact that it was downvoted sort of underscores my point, that people prefer reinforcing their feelings, rather than know the truth.

s/hetero/vanilla and the point stands
do you mean that vaginal sex is less risky than anal sex? Wikipedia says otherwise https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Transmission

do you have any source for what you believe?

You may wish to try https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Transmission

Receptive penile-vaginal intercourse* at 0.05–0.30% Receptive anal intercourse* at 0.04–3.0%

Given the error bars ...