The simple messaging by the Prepsters is you can take PrEP and have “sex without fear”. This is of course marketing bullshit which needs to be called out. For the past 35 years gay men have been having “sex without fear” by using a condom and protecting themselves from HIV and other STIs. However you… Read More »
You should never trust a gay man who wants unprotected sex, he will say anything to not use a condom with you. Years ago the barebacker would say “Trust me I’m HIV negative”. However this strategy has now changed. A HIV positive gay man may say “Trust me I’m undetectable, you can’t get HIV from… Read More »
Gay (ill) health charities have lost the plot and are now a danger to the sexual health of the gay community. They’re eager to foist crackpot HIV prevention strategies onto gay men. Why do we call them gay (ill) health charities? They would have you believe its a term of abuse from right wing bigots… Read More »
“Stigma” was the gay (ill)health organisations word of the year 2017, “fake news” was the word of the year for the rest of society. Since the 1980s with the AIDS epidemic unprotected/bareback/condomless sex was highly stigmatised in the gay community and rightly so. Having gay anal sex without a condom was not only foolish but… Read More »
A favourite hobby horse of the bareback promoting gay (ill) health organisations is that for the past 30 years gay men have been unable to have great sex due to the spectre of HIV. We are all suffering from the fear and anxiety of sex and the condom is a cruel triggering reminder of a… Read More »
These doctors and interviewer (2 are PrEP users) are selling PrEP as some kind of sexual liberation and it’s your choice to have sex that gives you pleasure. This could be a disaster for gay mens’ health not just in terms of a dramatic rise of STIs, which has already happened in the USA, but… Read More »
You will no doubt have read the latest campaign that simply states gay men who have HIV but have an undetectable viral load “cannot pass it on” and it is untransmittable if they have sex with a HIV negative partner. The gay (ill) health organisations deal in absolutes, is this definitive statement putting HIV negative… Read More »
Lets talk facts. Condoms have stopped thousands of HIV infections in the UK and compared to other parts of the world the campaigns, including the iceberg, have been an amazing success. HIV infection rates declined in the UK along with other STIs. Yet condoms are not seen as the answer to the spread of HIV… Read More »
We have said it before and will say it again the London gay media love promoting barebacking and undermining condoms as supposedly “old fashioned”. They give the impression that the new generation of gay men are barebacking the living daylights out of each other or “struggle” with condoms and everyone is on PrEP. Gays have… Read More »
Do you read articles from the gay (ill)health charities on sexuality and see that as the given norm? Well the best advice we can give you here at GMAP is don’t! Make your own way and find what’s comfortable and satisfying for you. Remember many of the gay men at these organisations have never left… Read More »