but you chose not to use it
illusions of trust
The more I watch this homo world that is evolving before my innocent eyes, the more I fear the next breath I take. With the advent of the internet, the ease for men who have sex with men in locating their next hookup has become a paradox more perplexing than the chickenhead who crossed the road. With HIV/AIDS running rampant and unchecked in the community, one is only left to wonder, why is it that things continue the way they do given all the information we know?
Having spent a large amount of time trolling that horrible website while my leg was broken I've come to realise many things. Here's a brief list:
- HIV/AIDS is here to stay, and regardless of how informed we become, it will take over the population before 2015
- The homos on the internet have seen this warning and have ignored it because it could never happen to them -- they're too smart for that
- By the time a vaccine/cure for HIV/AIDS comes to our civilization it isn't going to work at all because there will be super-strains of the virus everywhere due to multiple infections
Call me Chulo-damus -- granted my cryptic and apocalyptic predictions are not written in rhyming quatrains, but you get the point. I don't understand how it is that AIDS education has failed to touch on any of this... actually, I understand very well. If this was a straight issue, people would be shouting from soap boxes around the world, but because this is a homo thing, no one really cares -- except for the blacks. We all know those DL brothas who get down with other DL brothas, then come home to their wives and pass along their DL STDs that no one knew about. That's a large reason why many of the HIV/AIDS cases are black women. (For Black HIV/AIDS Resources, Click Here)
We need to be smarter people. I know everyone likes to have a good time and get their nut off, but there is no reason for ignorance -- especially blatant ignorance that leaves you sick and dying. This disease does not care if you're DL, if it's your first time, if you got a wife or a baby's mama -- everyone is at risk, and by being stupid and not protecting yourself, when you finally find that one person who means the world to you, there's going to be a lot to explain and a lot more that you're going to have to get thru before you can even think about getting as close as you would otherwise have been able to.
And as a wise condom slogan once said... "Don't be a loner, cover your boner."
1 comentario:
It does amaze me as well how people take unnecessary risks with their health when it comes to sexual activity. I find HIV/AIDS frightening even if it isn't the death sentence it used to be.
I think the fundamental problem with HIV/AIDS prevention education is that it completely dehumanizes sex. It removes desire, emotional and physical need, self-image, self-esteem, power relations between sex partners and the roles these things play in the decisions we make.
Junk food, cigarettes, drugs, lack of excercise, alcohol - there are tons of things in our society that are not good for us - in fact lethal for us - and we still engage in unhealthy and risk behaviors for numerous and complicated reasons that have yet to truly be considered. I don't think it is as easy as people think it will never happen to them - althought I think that is a significant part of STD infection. I also think that we are taught and socialized to over-rely on sex as a form of intimacy - particularly in the gay community where other (more public) forms of intimate expression are hard to negotiate in a homophobic society.
The message in HIV/AIDS prevention is one of fear and stigmatization. It has only been recently that organizations have begun to make the prevention message one of responsibility, self-respect, self-love, and love in general. "Knowing is beautiful."
I do take issue with DL phenomenon. Although DL men exist and I am certain that some DL men have gotten STDs and infected female partners - this information is mostly anecdotal at this point. There really is no solid research that can point to men on the DL as a reason for the infection rate of black women. That message is another one seeks to dehumanize and pathologize black men and infantize black women. It takes focus away from all the other factors that may contribute to the rates in Black women including poverty, IV drug use, and relations with men who become infected both through drug use and sexual intercourse (both forced and otherwise) while incarcerated. In addition, the DL story serves to take attention away from some of the issues that are common to all people having sex. Promiscuity, infidelity, and lack of adherance to safer sex practices are issues in all relationships; not just gay coupling. The DL is another one of "those people" stories that lead peopel to falsely believe that HIV could never happen to them. It makes Black women think that they just have to make their men believe that as long as they are certain their men aren't fags they can have unprotected sex and be safe. This just isn't true.
Everyone needs to be smarter and safer. Everyone needs to be a bit more loving to each other and responsible for themselves.
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