Do gay guys need condoms
Young gay guys never want to use condoms
Yes, OP - this has been an issue for the past 5 years in the USA. PrEP is (was?) not covered by health insurance in the UK and Ireland, and people still used condoms there. I think the NHS in the UK covers it but still not sure about Ireland.
Anyway, let me just illustrate my issue with no condoms:
1. Drug resistant gonorrhea is going to arrive & will spread very fast in the MSM community (small community with multiple partners - unfortunately ideal for STIs). We are on the final antibiotic for it. Then, we're out of options. It is already in the UK and Thailand & the dude who has it is on ertapenem as an experiment. Nobody knows if that will slay it. It still hasn't been reported what happened since his last treatment. Ertapenem might not be % effective.
2. If I am a top, I am not into getting fecal residue on my dick. It grosses me out to no cease. Sorry - I am not into scat or fecal residue.
3. I am not sticking my dick in an ass without a condom, despite how adequately it was "cleaned" visually (most bacteria cannot be washed away with douchin
Sexual health for gay and bisexual person men
Having unprotected penetrative sex is the most likely way to move through on a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Using a condom helps protect against HIV and lowers the peril of getting many other STIs.
If you’re a man having sex with men (MSM), without condoms and with someone new, you should have an STI and HIV check every 3 months, otherwise, it should be at least once a year. This can be done at a sexual health clinic (SHC) or genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic. This is crucial, as some STIs do not produce any symptoms.
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is a liver infection that's spread by a virus in poo.
Hepatitis A is uncommon in the UK but you can obtain it through sex, including oral-anal sex ("rimming") and giving oral sex after anal sex. MSM with multiple partners are particularly at risk. You can also get it through contaminated meal and drink.
Symptoms of hepatitis A can show up up to 8 weeks after sex and include tiredness and feeling sick (nausea).
Hepatitis A is not usually life-threatening and most people make a entire recovery within a
Q&A: Decline in condom use indicates need for further education, awareness
Research | Social science | UW News blog
February 27,
A new University of Washington study measures changes in sex without condoms among HIV-negative gay and bisexual men who are not taking y
New explore from the University of Washington shows that condom use has been trending downward among younger same-sex attracted and bisexual men over the last decade, even when they aren’t taking pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP.
The study, published Feb. 27 in AIDS and Deed, measures changes in sex without condoms among HIV-negative gay and bisexual men who are not taking PrEP. Using data from the cycles of the American Men’s Internet Survey — a web-based survey of cisgender men ages 15 and older who have sex with men (MSM) — researchers initiate that roughly half of HIV-negative men reported using condoms at least sometimes in the last year. That was higher than the 15% of respondents who reported using PrEP.
But HIV-negative MSM who are not using PrEP feel to be not using condoms increasi
"What do you call a gay guy who got infected in the '80s? A victim. What do you call a gay guy who gets infected in ? An idiot." Well put by a reader to my gay dating column, but way off the mark.
According to the CDC, novel HIV infection rates among gay men keep climbing and this year is no exception. I realize the level of wrath a lot of lgbtq+ guys have about this sobering trend. I've just had two something friends turn HIV positive. Some in our inner circle went ballistic with rage. "Why didn't they employ condoms?" seethed one ally. "It's not like they don't how to guard themselves -- they CHOSE not to. And if that's the case don't they deserve what they got?"
Well, no. True, if people were any more stupid about safe sex we'd have to liquid them twice a week, but the anger has no logic. When emergency workers pull dead or injured people out of car crashes do they blame the victims for not wearing seat belts? Do they refuse to help them?
The standard reasons experts give about rising infections center around "Plague Fatigue" and misplaced "AIDS Optimism" (believi