[neverdem]

Bizarre - viral apartheid - how about Russian roulette. I wasn't going to post this article until I saw that comment. Paging A.B. Normal!

[neverdem]

PING

[Graybeard58]

About a third of those who take publicly financed standard H.I.V. tests fail to return for their results

Let's see now, the queers come in, take the test, I pay for it, then they don't bother to come back to get the result?

[Asclepius]

That sort of discrimination, however understandable, long ago earned a name in the gay community: viral apartheid.

We all have to pay for this man's lunacy and the lunacy of his entire "community" in higher insurance rates, medical costs, increased risks of infection and even antibiotic resistant super-infections.

[Hotdog]

Go to Massachusetts and get a license to die!

[antienvironmentalist]

Sounds like a future Darwin award nominee.

[A Jovial Cad]

"You drive yourself nuts"

Well, I guess that statement certainly is true, though the sentence is lacking the preposition "towards" in between the words "yourself" and "nuts"...which is the basic cause of the whole problem this sweetie-pie quivers and trembles about finding himself with in the first place.

[Spirochete]

You replay your recent sex life.... You drive yourself nuts... You stumble through... ...wave of relief helps to quell, at least for a while, the chattering in your brain.

Speak for yourself. Why do people use "You" when relating first-hand experience?

[F16Fighter]

I certainly know men who have come up positive in recent years. Broken condoms. Slip-ups. Impulsive acts fueled by lust and drugs and a hunger for connection. I have known the pain that brought them there - the death of friends and lovers, the loneliness.

Gee, haven't these people read an AIDS pamplet yet, or learned about the risk of AIDS on MTV? sarcasm/

[ikka]

Homosexual behavior in all its neurotic, unhealthy ways. His "chattering brain", his refusal to avoid those who are already HIV-positive, etc. Sorry I don't buy the "homos are just like everybody else" rhetoric.

[scripter]

How many partners in the last year? Enough. Positive partners that you know of? Yes.

That's a very dangerous sex life. It's too bad his counselor doesn't tell him about the thousands that have left the homosexual lifestyle, and that there is hope for him.

[txzman]

"But I treasure human touch, so celibacy does not feel like a viable option to me. "

Remember this comment. It does not pertain only to gay men - it is a part of being human.

AND! Aids is spreading faster in heterosexual communities - and all sin is the same before God. What I cannot accept is the behaviour and culture, which I believe Paul was speaking drirectly to in his age.

[L.N. Smithee]

I know that one answer to the epidemic for a single gay man is to avoid sex altogether. But I treasure human touch, so celibacy does not feel like a viable option to me.

"I treasure human touch..." Oh, how melodramatic. What's amazing is that this guy apparently doesn't see any irony in saying that avoiding AIDS is not "a viable option..."

Mr. Tuller, remind me and the rest of America why we are supposed to care more about your life than you do. I keep forgetting.

I could also, I suppose, limit my contacts to H.I.V.-negative men. Straight people recommend that strategy as if it is a no-brainer.

That's right, we do. If you had a CAT scan along with your HIV test, maybe you would know why -- or, actually, perhaps someone could try to explain it to you.

But they are not confronting a dating pool so full of potential risk. In my city, lots of the gay men I meet are H.I.V.-positive. Thanks to the current crop of medications, many have successfully kept illness at bay and continue to lead full lives.

Giving you all the freedom that you desire to fornicate like rabbits. Yeah, that worked out real well in the 1970's, didn't it?

To reject such a huge number of people out of hand feels wrong, like rejecting someone for having cancer or diabetes. That sort of discrimination, however understandable, long ago earned a name in the gay community: viral apartheid.

Yeah, buddy, it "feels wrong" to reject someone with this communicable disease that you have so much trepidation about, "like rejecting someone for having cancer or diabetes," which you can't catch.

Well, that does it. Not only is homosexuality abnormal, it rots your brain, too.

[A.J.Armitage]

I see how getting infected might bring some flicker of relief; it's done, the fight's over, you can relax now.

And people live like this voluntarily.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Ah the fear pain and suspence is horrible, but once cleared he goes right back for a deplorable repeat performance.

Except for the high cost passed on to tax payers, these stupid Darwin Award seekers can go the way of the dodo bird with no regret on my part.

[cherry]

cry me a river, fella.....

[Clock King]

Was this article for real?? It is so wrong on so many levels. I really hope that vast majority of gays are NOT like this author. And I know they ones I've met in my life haven't behaved/thought like this. Don't know what to say...

[Caipirabob]

ANYONE WANT TO ARGUE HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT A MENTAL ILLNESS NOW?

Didn't think so.

[Caipirabob]

Bring a "bag" BUMP!

[Taxachusan]

To reject such a huge number of people out of hand feels wrong, like rejecting someone for having cancer or diabetes.

So now AIDS is on par with Cancer and Diabetes? Huh?

[Desdemona]

Um, reading stuff like this can render one speechless. The level of selfishness without wanting the consequences is unreal.