Unsafe Sex and the City
It really bothers me to read stories like this one:
A new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that between 2001 and 2006 gay male sex was the largest HIV transmission category in the U.S. and also the only one which recorded an increasing number of HIV/AIDS diagnoses.
- The most affected are gay boys and men between the ages of 13 and 24 years,
- with minorities even more.
- Other factors such as genital herpes could actually double a person’s risk for contracting HIV.
- According to the New York City Health Department’s Bureau of Epidemiology Services 40 percent of New Yorkers with multiple sex partners did not use a condom the last time they had sex.
- Also about 11 percent (610,000 adults) of them had multiple sex partners, a fact that increased their chance of contracting sexually transmitted infections
Seriously, what the hell has happened. It’s like an entire generation of gay men has suddenly lost the ability to perceive history. What has to happen to turn statistics like this around?
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Is it wrong that I’m turned on by that picture?
I think the problem is that HIV/AIDS is perceived to be no longer the death sentence it used to be. If you catch it, the cocktails of drugs you have to take will keep you alive. Therefore it is treatable.
The misconception here is that people think they’ll be “healthy”, when really, the drugs will always make you feel like shit.
On the brighter side, that is one hell of a crab!
OK that picture gave me nightmares. Seriously.
*shudder*
Though that guy sure has a nice ass.
i don’t get the picture of the scorpian/crab thing. what does it try and show???
@PansyBoy It’s from a French Ad Campaign using nightmarish imagery to illustrate the dangers of unsafe sex.
If you can find them (do a Google images search on AIDES), the ones of Wonder Woman and Superman have an even more disturbing quality about them.