1983 ISIS Survey

The 1983 ISIS Survey was a survey conducted by the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality under the leadership of psychologist Paul Cameron, in an attempt to "expose" what Cameron felt were insidious going-ons among homosexuals. The survey asked a series of questions regarding sexual and social practices to 4340 people; only 65 of the people surveyed claimed to be homosexual/lesbian or bisexual. According to Cameron, his findings supported his hypothesis that homosexuality is a deviant lifestyle that encourages sexual perversion and crime; chief among his findings:

• The average homosexual has between 20 and 106 sexual partners a year
• Out of all the mass-murders in the US over the past seventeen years, homosexuals killed at least 68% of the victims.
• Homosexuals perpetrate between a third and a half of all recorded child molestations.
• 100% of all homosexuals have oral sex (which Cameron referred to in his notes as "tantamount to drinking blood")
• 90% of all homosexuals regularly engage in anal sex
• 92% of all homosexuals regularly insert their tongue into their partner's anus
• 70% of all homosexuals regularly ingest feces (some re-prints of the study change this number to 17%)
• 50% of all homosexuals regularly ingest semen
• 41% of all homosexuals regularly insert their clenched fist into their partner's anus
• 37% of all homosexuals engage in sado-masochism.
• 29% of all homosexuals urinate on their partners.
• The average life span of a homosexual is 39 years; fewer than 2% survive to the age of 65.
• 33% of homosexuals aged 20 will contract AIDS by the time they are 32
• 76% of homosexuals have one or more STDs

In regard to STDs, Cameron had a sub-section specifically dedicated to the prevalence of veneral disease in the gay community, claiming that his survey proved gay men were:

• 14 times more likely than heterosexual men to contract syphilis
• 3 times more likely than heterosexual men to contract gonorrhea
• 3 times more likely than heterosexual men to contract genital warts
• 8 times more likely than heterosexual men to contract a form of hepatitis
• 3 times more likely than heterosexual men to get genital lice
• 5 times more likely than heterosexual men to contract scabies
• 5000 times more likely than heterosexual men to contract HIV/AIDS

In regard to lesbians, Cameron claimed that they were:

• 19 times more likely than heterosexual women to contract syphilis
• 2 times more likely than heterosexual women to contract genital warts
• 4 times more likely than heterosexual women to contract scabies

Cameron insisted that the survey's results were accurate, and went on publishing them in pamphlets he began to hand out after moving to Washington, D.C. in 1984 and setting up the Family Research Institute. These pamphlets are often purchased by or given to Christian and family values groups, who regard the information as accurate. Numerous anti-homosexual groups use the ISIS Survey as evidence of the unhealthiness of homosexuality or to discredit homosexual rights movements. Most famously, the ISIS Survey is often quoted by the ChildCare Action Project and Fred Phelps, both of whom insist that the study is accurate and unbiased.

This article is based on a GNU FDL LGBT Wikia article: ISIS Survey 1983 ISIS Survey

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