Attraction of Barebacking-- Not Sure I See It

[Steven_Draker]

bare backing when it was safer (70s) was fun ...

 

Never knew that barebacking was safer even then. Reports show that barebacking was common practice in the Pines' Meat Rack

and while AIDS haven't made an appearance yet in the 70' other venereal diseases were very frequent.

[+ deej]

Never knew that barebacking was safer even then. Reports show that barebacking was common practice in the Pines' Meat Rack

and while AIDS haven't made an appearance yet in the 70' other venereal diseases were very frequent.[/color]

 

The real irony here is that condoms were actually invented to help stem the spread of Syphilis. Gay men are barebacking more and more, and Syphilis is spreading like crazy again.

[leigh.bess.toad]

THIS^^^

 

 

I believe that many people who freely bareback these days either know for sure that they are already HIV+, or strongly suspect that they might be but are too chickenshit to do the test because not knowing absolves them of responsibility. Either way, they're not too concerned about it because many no longer view HIV/AIDS as a disease of serious short-term consequences. They think they're having fun now, but they will regret it---eventually.

 

HIV is a 'smart' virus, and its just a matter of time before it mutates into a newer and deadlier version of its current self. Unfortunately, only when people start dropping like dead flies again will we see a big change in this revived attitude towards barebacking. And by the time they seriously realize that bareback isa really bad idea, for many it will already be too late. Many of the youngsters who are all gung ho about barebacking now weren't around to see the true face of AIDS when it was wiping people out back in the 80s, and that has a lot to do with why they don't take it so seriously.

 

The HIV drugs may only delay the inevitable. Sooner or later they will either not work all that well anymore or they will begin to wreck the body. Some people take them for many years and don't have any problems, but not everyone is so lucky. People are STILL dying from complications related to AIDS, its just that the media isn't badgering the public with those images the way they were 25 to 30 years ago. It also doesn't help that the porn industry has begun to glamorize barebacking again. Deja vu?

 

Unfortunately, the only thing to say is: "Coming soon to a community health center near you". And as a bottom, it is MY life that is most on the line. That is the thing that a lot of the tops just don't seem to get. If you don't care enough about me whether I live or die, or even just if my life is more difficult and expensive, why in the world would I want to have sex with you? Anyone?