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I think that goes without saying.

Same for me. Central PA. Lots of rednecks that would beat the shit out of you for being gay. Nonetheless the musical theater crowd all turned out to be gay. ( No surprises ). The only shockers were the number of bisexual guys. Most of us married and had kids, but like to fool around. The majority of these guys WERE the jocks, who you wouldn't normally think of as dick-suckers. I am unaware of anyone in my high school, who is in a homosexual relationship today, who I was shocked to discover this. ( and yes I am very close to many of my childhood friends and we are in constant touch through social media....so I do know most people's business through the grapevine ). We did have a surprisingly large gay population for such a conservative community. None of us really quite understand why that was. (Distant parents maybe.) But we did go way beyond the usual 10% model. Anyway...as I stated before the ONLY guys who I found attractive were the sporty, masculine guys. Purportedly "straight". That's still what I like and fortunately I've now discovered that bisexuality makes some of those guys available. Something I was unaware of in High School. Foolishly I somehow believed I was "broken" and I was the only one.

No one is faulting the pharma company for that. I am merely pointing out that the representation of 99% efficacy is often touted out of context to the results in the general community. It's also exaggerated because every independent study comes up with different numbers ranging from 95% to 97% but not 99%. Either way it's an efficient drug but should not be relied on solely. Condoms should still be part of your safer sex model, especially if you're very sexually active with multiple partners.

As is often quoted and is true: All stereotypes are based in some truth. Does everyone from any group NEED to follow the stereotype ? NO. But do stereotypes come from commonality within the group ? YES

Don was an extremely pretty young man. I'm sure everyone in Hollywood was trying to ride that horse.

What "self loathing " ? People are attracted to who they are attracted to. You can't apply modern social justice theory to sexual attraction. Sexual attraction doesn't spend time thinking about what's "fair" or equal. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-022-01332-y

When I was in High School, ( 1980s) nobody talked about being gay. But everyone knew who was gay. It's not that difficult. What you couldn't pick out were the bisexuals.

Very sad. I was just commenting yesterday about what a great space this was for young providers who can't host at home. I hope they are able to rebuild and restore the business. I have donated to their GoFundMe page. I hope others are able to be charitable as well. https://gofund.me/505fdc0b

What's wrong with Macy's ?

In fact the majority of gay men do NOT keep up with their HIV medications 100% of the time. The research paper I attached, shows that 100% dosage adherence is uncommon in the gay community. The statistic about Truvada being 99% effective is a distortion by Gilead to give a false sense of security in taking their medication. Efficacy in the general population is FAR lower, because the majority do NOT take their meds 100% of the time. Even with 100% dosage, the statistics still don't add up to 99% efficacy. Independent studies show a range from 95% to 97%. Unfortunately Gilead is a multi-billion dollar corporation and they do a lot to suppress independent study reports and when you request data on Google, the first few pages are Pharmaceutical sponsored with glowing reviews. It's only when you dig a little further down, that you find the actual data from independent research laboratories that paint a different picture of the risk involved.

I came across this article that I had saved. Obviously I don't save everything I read. HIV combination prevention strategies consisting of condom use, access to HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), postexposure prophylaxis and treatment-as-prevention with antiretroviral treatment (ART), contributed to the fall in new HIV diagnoses in men having sex with men (MSM) reported globally [1–3]. Oral PrEP as tenofovir disoproxil-fumarate (TDF)/emtricitabine (FTC) has been approved for a daily or ‘event-based’ dosing (EBD) around the time of a potential exposure to HIV. Its effectiveness in preventing HIV has been attested at 86% in trials [4,5] and as high as 95% when adherence is optimal Shover CL, Shoptaw S, Javanbakht M, Lee SJ, Bolan R, Cunningham N, et al. Mind the gaps: Prescription Coverage and HIV incidence among patients receiving PreP. AIDS Behav 2019; 23:2730–2740.

https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/fulltext/2022/03150/rising_rates_of_recent_preexposure_prophylaxis.9.aspx

Condoms prevent more than just HIV. And people need to worry about more than HIV Syphilis is spreading in the gay community because of the prevalence of PreP and condom use is no longer standard. https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-msm-syphilis.htm

The data that indicate(s) prep is 99% effective is the data sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry Independent organizations come up with a different number. But as always...people will believe what make them happiest...so you do you. I will stick with the actual research numbers.

Then why did @BtmBearDad just indicate that both his doctor and his reading agrees with my statement ? So clearly I am NOT "spreading misinformation". You may be reading misinformation because the pharmaceutical industry likes to paint a rosier picture of their product.

I fail to see why you immediately assume I am "pretending". I am hardly here "from morning until night". I take mental breaks during the day to get away from paperwork, so I check various online chats that I participate in. It's five minutes here and there.

Ah. Well hello again ! Sorry, I over estimated the time passed and had you closer to 40 by now. I don't know why I remembered you telling me you moved here from Turkey. Just shows that I'm getting old and cant' keep my handsome companions straight in my head. Nice to see you're still well and in the business. Will have to reconnect some day soon.

Again...this is a discussion board, and not my college dissertation. I didn't include a bibliography. My comment stated clearly that this was my conclusion "from all the reading I've done". I didn't just read it today, so I don't have the articles at my finger tips, but I can say that I am not inclined to believe puff pieces. I also don't believe articles that are sponsored by the Pharmaceutical Industry. So you DO need to do some digging. If I have a minute, I will look to see if I did save any of the articles. Right now, I'm at work and just taking a lunch break.

From ALL the reading I've done the efficacy that the pharmaceutical companies taut is ONLY valid IF you never miss a single dose. Then the range is 97% to 99 % . ( Pharmaceutical company claims 99% while independent studies show 97% ). You need to dig a bit to find the independent studies because big pharma spends a lot to keep their data coming up first when you research. To me, 3% risk is still a risk. However topping as opposed to bottoming also reduces your risk.

Prep is never 100% effective and it's only 97% effective IF you take it 100% perfectly on schedule ( which virtually NO ONE does ). So yeah...if you KNOW someone is HIV positive and they just shot a load in your ass..you should probably wait to see if you got the bullet in your game of Russian PreP Roulette

So you're 14 inches hard ? 😳

I am guessing Goecke's award winning 2015 choreography "Thin Skin" was autobiographical 😉

No I literally have no idea how one has anything to do with the other.

No. But they were pretty irregular in their doses. Gilead likes to promote their 99% efficacy number but what they don't tell you is that it's actually 97% in independent trials and that's ONLY when you take it 100% daily ....which 77% of gay men DO NOT !!! https://www.poz.com/article/iPrEx-OLE-results-25922-2484

NO. Gay men like to pretend they have no idea what that means. Ignoring something doesn't make the obvious not obvious to others.