Posted on 06/26/2018 4:35:11 AM PDT by reaganaut1
June is Pride Month, a ripe time to reflect on one of the most startling facts about our sexual culture today: Condom use is all but disappearing among large numbers of gay men.
Many rightly attribute the condom’s decline to the rise of PrEP — an acronym for pre-exposure prophylaxis, a two-drug cocktail that inoculates a person from contracting H.I.V. But another crucial component is the fading memory of the AIDS crisis that once defined what it meant to be gay.
After tracking the sexual practices of 17,000 gay and bisexual Australian men from 2014 to 2017, a team of researchers this month unveiled the most convincing evidence to date. While the number of H.I.V.-negative men who are on PrEP increased to 24 percent from 2 percent, the rate of condom use decreased to 31 percent from 46 percent. More troubling, condom use among non-gay men is also down significantly.
Although public health advocates have been sounding the alarm on condom use for the last decade, their calls have gone largely unheeded. Part of that is because of a shift in how we talk about risky sex: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has replaced “unprotected” with “condomless” sex.
The dangerous implication is that PrEP alone may ward off all sexually transmitted infections. Indeed, studies have shown a strong correlation between PrEP use and the contraction of S.T.I.s. PrEP enthusiasts counter that PrEP mandates testing for S.T.I.s every three months, a practice that promotes rather than discourages a culture of sexual health.
But a 2016 study by the University of California, Los Angeles illustrated that PrEP users were 25.3 times more likely to acquire gonorrhea and a shocking 44.6 times more likely to develop a syphilis infection (other studies have found no significant uptick in S.T.I. rates, however).
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Who??? I am working with a Dr. Michael Peper here in one of his churches.
I wonder if the author has considered the implications of that sentence.
“Gay people should be required to pay more than smokers for health insurance. “
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Gays are a protected class,smokers are the 21st century lepers.
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There is no such thing as safe homosexual sex. The media continuing to lie about this lifestyle will result in even more deaths.
sick sick sick...
They have internet there? Or are you posting by writing on tree bark?
Yes, they actually have internet here. Pricey and only about 75% dependability, but it is here. They have an undersea cable drop here and try to maintain it as best they can.
Corruption and a very poor culture of maintenance seems to work against them a lot.
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