Tag Archives: AIDS

Video illustrates why San Francisco could once again be the starting point for a pandemic amongst gay men

By | 4th December 2018

17,000 men who have sex with men (MSM) are taking PrEP in San Francisco, that’s 37%, according to this video. And you can bet that hardly any of them are using condoms. In fact condoms aren’t mentioned once in the video (agenda revealed). But no surprise there, as its from the website Prepster. Using PrEP… Read More »

PrEP promoters & their hatred of “inhibitions” are a danger to us all

By | 5th November 2018

Some of the people who work in gay “health” and who are the loudest advocates for PrEP seem a little bit weird. Perhaps you’ve sensed that too? They’re keen that no one should be “judged” or “stigmatised” and one wonders whether that stems from reactions they’ve had over the years personally. Not just because some… Read More »

Why condoms are a safer choice than ever & the simple act of avoiding barebackers keeps you healthy & sane

By | 4th November 2018

As part of the desperation to drive forward PrEP and the barebacking that goes along with it, condoms have sometimes been demonised in the most wicked and false way. In fact, if you insist on using a condom, and always do, you’re probably at the safest level gay condom users have been at for 35… Read More »

Video seminars about HIV and STIs amongst gay men by a Infectious Disease and Sexual Health Consultant

By | 17th October 2018

If you’re a Man who has Sex with Men (MSM) and you really want to know what is going on when it comes to sexual health we highly recommend the following video seminars which have just been published by the New Zealand organisation PHARMAC. HIV Update Dr Massimo Giola, an Infectious Disease and Sexual Health… Read More »

Don’t Die of Ignorance II – the sequel

By | 22nd October 2017

In 1983 some of us watched a Horizon programme on BBC2. Called “Killer In the Village“, it was about a mysterious illness that was killing gay men in New York and San Francisco. To some of us in the UK it was apparent immediately that, whatever this was, it was unlikely to stay only in… Read More »

SPECIAL FEATURE: the rise of bareback as a fetish and the looming crisis we now face as gay men

By | 20th October 2016

It’s very important to recognise that bareback sex is a fetish and has only really existed and grown as a supposedly desirable “thing” since around the year 2000. Before AIDS became a huge issue in the early 1980s, gay men didn’t use condoms. But that doesn’t mean they were focused on cum (semen) and the… Read More »