I'm gay but want to date this girl...?

Doorknobs, mosquitoes and drinking glasses, baby.

Obviously, I now know that isn't true, but between acting as if it were, and treating everybody as if they do have aids anyway, I do not, and will not. Because of this, people say I'm ignorant. Whatever. First, I absolutely am not ignorant about the subject, not by a long shot. Second, your threshold for risk can be different than mine, and that hurts neither of us.

Quite frankly, if I was such a promiscuous person that I had to take a prescription pill to avoid aids, I would be re-examining my life anyway. But that's the problem. That's why teens and twenty-somethings are catching aids like there's no tomorrow.

Thing is, that lifestyle doesn't typically happen in a vacuum. You're going out to the disco, drinking alcohol, maybe taking drugs, and going to bed with some stranger. Did you take your pill? Maybe. Do you have a condom? Maybe, but this one time won't hurt, right? That's the reality.

In the 90s, when I was in college, I developed a statistical model based on data of the time. The product was a 10 question survey, where if all the (truthful) answers were no except for number 7 or 8, there was something like a .0000000000000000001%, I honestly don't know how many 0s, but several, chance they had aids. Of course, the test is useless because everybody lies, but if I knew them well enough to either know the answers, or that they told the truth, game on. First three questions were an automatic no if any answer was yes, and then varying degrees of what I would be willing to do with you and levels of protection required from there.

So, anyway, I just think it's stupid to rely on a pill and a condom to keep you safe from what is still a death sentence. And that's how it should still be thought of. Only thing that has changed is the timeline. Instead of being run over by a bus, you are put on death row in some liberal state like Massachusetts.

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