Good find, wow this stuff is happening everywhere!
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The said truth is that if this happened to humans scientists would immediately start looking for the genes responsible. For example up until recently 90% of all Autism research money went towards genetics. (facepalm)

Patrick
By the time someone is an adult it seems almost certain that virtually everyone would have come in contact with the “gay germ.” That makes it really tough.
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Maybe scientists could look at young children with gender dysphoria for increased reactivity to something. Realistically speaking sheep are the easiest because scientists can remove them from their normal environment and crank down the variables until they get an answer. If a “gay germ” actually exists and they find it then they can look for it in humans.

As for Paul Cameron – he is an extremely antigay propagandist who uses BS stats to try to paint gays as diseased and depraved.

Thanks for the heads-up. I don’t know what causes that kind of belief/behavior from someone who’d say that.
I am always reminded of John Knowles, who through his narrator Gene in
A Separate Peace spoke of “something ignorant in the human heart.”

If you are talking about non-STD pathogens – then the most likely mode of transmisson is inhalation and/or physical contact (shaking hands – handling contaminated objects etc).

We really don’t know. What we do know is that germs are like the inimitable cockroach–always changing or ready to change. Yes, many of these non-STDs would gain their mobility through a host’s sneezing, coughing, touching, not through sexual contact. A lot of them don’t transport themselves at all. They are content to live on us–skin, hair, eyelashes even–and in us,–in our mouths, ears, nose and other orifices.
The thing is, however, when those germs happen to get introduced into a new environment, one that they find unfriendly, they are just like us–they struggle mightily to survive. They are looking to grab onto something that will act like a life raft the same way a non-swimmer is looking for one when he finds himself in a body of water.
So, if a germ is introduced into the rectum by a finger, a penis, a whatever…. and finds it a hostile place, it may find egress out of there through a tiny life raft–a scratch in the rectal wall (and the rectum is not hard to scratch). Some germs are better at surviving than others.
The question becomes, can that germ survive in that environment? Can it replicate itself there? If it does, and it causes symptoms, the host goes to the doctor and the doctor treats the infection. This is what happens with most STDs. Thankfully, most of them produce uncomfortable symptoms, uncomfortable enough to get people to seek help before the germ has done lasting damage. However, women infected with syphilis are often asymptomatic for a long time. This is when things are really dangerous–when they don’t produce symptoms, and thus the host doesn’t get treated quickly.
Sorry— back to the hypothetical “non-STD” germ in the rectum—if it is still alive but finds the other side of the rectal wall just as unfriendly as the rectum itself, can it transport itself to a friendlier environment like the liver, the spleen, the intestines, the wherever? Can it latch onto the outside of the colon’s wall, for instance? Can it hop a ride to another place, a friendlier place, by riding through the blood stream? Can it change itself and manage to survive somewhere in the body by not making itself known for a long while, by seeing to it the host has no symptoms? Then, years and years later, will it have been found to be the cause of a slow-growing tumor, a cancer?
Or, did the germ just die, finding that it could not survive the environment in which it found itself? Or another possibility…. did it manage to find a safe place where it could reproduce and live happily and peacefully inside us like it appears so many others do.( I’ll add here that we should not be one day surprised to discover that so-called benign germs that live in our stomach or digestive tract, say, have actually done damage we didn’t anticipate.)
As in so many cases, the load matters. A few germs introduced into a strange new place might die quickly in such an environment, but if a lot of germs are introduced a few at a time through each sexual contact, perhaps a really strong one survives and evolves to prosper and multiply.
This is where the field of molecular biology is now headed since science has accepted that the germ theory of disease put forth by people like Hamilton, Ewald, and Cochran was not poppycock. It’s taken many years for the theorists to have convinced the people in the labs that they were looking for the causes of cancer in many of the wrong places. Perhaps it was just failure alone that convinced those researchers and their progeny that they had been looking in the wrong places. Compare the number of studies of pathogenic causes of things done 20 years ago to the number today, and it is astounding.
It’s dawning on them that the brain is just like all our other organs–susceptible to those wily germs. And the most intriguing question of all is, “Are there germs that have hijacked our brains and thus our behavior to their own advantage, like T. gondii, which uses the rodent as an intermediary host to get to its ultimate host, the cat and a few other animals, including man? The rodent infected with T. gondii loses its fear of cat urine and is eaten by the cat. Viola! Mission accomplished. (BTW, there is no suggestion here that SSA is the by-product of such a hijacking.)
People can die from the brain cysts of T gondii. Pregnant women lose their babies or their babies suffer damage. However, millions of people in the world, particularly people in countries that eat undercooked meat, have T. gondii infections and researchers are studying whether their behaviors have been affected even though they certainly do not appear ill. France is one such country although there are many others. Yes, it’s a great subject of jokes among researchers that the French are loaded with T. gondii. Does that explain the de Gaullian personality of so many? LOL.

I would think that the celibate gays would be just as likely as the sexually active gays to have these pathogens (as well as everyone else).

Yes, of course, these same non-STD pathogens are on and in the bodies of both celibate and non-celibate people of all orientations.
However, because a celibate person, gay or straight, has had nothing introduced into a rectum, colon, or vagina, (unless they placed an object there) those pathogens don’t enter those places where they then might find a passage to another part of the body as I described above. And, I will repeat that it’s much easier to get from the rectum to another part of the body than it is to get from the vagina to another part of the body.