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  • 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 STD s


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


Further, Cameron showed that the average lifespan of a homosexual was 42; he did this by averaging the ages of people listed in obituaries in exclusively gay publications. His notes indicate he did not take into consideration closeted homosexuals and/or homosexuals whose families or loved ones chose not to list them in the gay obituaries.

In the wake of the survey's being published, Cameron suffered backlash from fellow psychologists. Leading the campaign against Cameron and the ISIS Survey was Dr. A. Nicholas Groth, then-director of the Sex Offender Program at the Connecticut Department of Corrections. Groth claimed that Cameron had purposely distorted facts and used intentionally biased survey methods in order to produce results that he wanted. Groth cited unpublished results of the ISIS Survey, which showed that, if the rest of the study were true, it also meant that:

  • 52% of male heterosexuals have shoplifted

  • 34% of male heterosexuals have committed a crime without being caught

  • 22% of male heterosexuals have been arrested for a felony

  • 13% of male heterosexuals have served time in a federal penitentiary

  • 12% of male heterosexuals have attempted to murder someone


Groth and other psychologists filed a complaint against Cameron to the American Psychological Association . In 1983 an investigation was launched, the results of which concluded that Cameron had breached ethics by conducting studies which employed unsound methods in order to secure an intentionally skewed result. The investigating committee also discovered that Cameron had falsely been using the names of other psychologists as having supported his findings. For this breach of ethics, Cameron was expelled from the APA. Later, Cameron would claim that he had resigned, but his former peers were quick to point out that members under investigation cannot resign.

Following his expulsion, Cameron was further censured for the ISIS Survey by the Nebraska Psychological Association, the American Sociological Association, and the Midwest Sociological Society.

Cameron continued to insist that the ISIS Survey was accurate, though, and went on publishing it 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, not knowing the study's fallacies, or refusing to acknowledge the study's bias, pass on 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.