Check out the above info instead of ads like the ones below on Craigslist, which were probably placed by guys who couldn't care less that they may be helping to extend the life of a killer virus because hey, it's as fun and manageable as diabetes these days and who cares about anyone else or anything that happened before the 2000s? (BTW, the men ID as anywhere from age 21 to their 40s.)
These ads were all placed today, on World AIDS Day, on Craigslist in NYC, where a significant % of all sexually active gay men have HIV. These ads often ask that people be DDF (these examples don't care), as if that is a good way to practice risk assessment. (My old roommate in Chicago, a stripper and sex addict, used to tell me he always asked guys if they had "it" before they screwed. He only used a condom if the guy insisted. He tried to get me to have sex with him when I visited him in the hospital for a mysterious infection of his elbow, but I declined. He died, I later discovered, in 1994 or 1995. I'm pretty sure it wasn't from a safe falling on his head.)
We all make choices. Sometimes, we make stupid choices. But when we turn our stupid choices into a way of life, it's not the choices that are stupid anymore.
And by the way, the guys in the ads above may have HIV and may think that frees them up to go condomless, but I wonder what the next plague will be and if it is being cooked in asses like these? Gay people are often thought to be at the forefront of everything...must we try so hard to be first in line for the next pandemic?
Sex is awesome and I've had my share of it—I am no prude, and would have zero problem with cum-Dumpsters in the absence of HIV. But HIV exists and is still a huge problem, and it has shown us how quickly new bugs can propagate. There are ways to cut your risks and to cut the risk that you may be feeding into another health disaster for others. End of lecture. Bring on the complaints that I'm "judgmental."
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