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Mark, sometimes I am glad I am old. Young people today, some of them want to live like we did in the early eighties. Back then, I went into a factory job and stayed almost thirty years--no drug test, credit check or background check. Now look what they check for just so you can get a job, that includes social media. In Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Dallas, we gay men ran amuck on alternating weekends; you might take a phone number, but that was it. Now young gay men think, 'If I get HIV, no big deal. I just take a pill, that's it.' If you don't have health insurance, the Oklahoma Dept of Health will help you, but they literally own you. So if someone else names you for gonorrhea or some other std and they are seeking free treatment, that's where the prosecution could come in. A lot of young people say us oldies are trying to judge them. No that's not it, you live in a different world now, so protect your health at all cost. Don't get me wrong HIV testing is still anonymous, but when you go to the state for treatment your name is on record and you will be held accountable for your sex life, thank you.
There are still lots of infections one can get with or without condoms. Good hot sex is good hot sex, with or without a condom. The idea that condomless sex is better sex is just a myth. Everybody should get the name and number of every sex partner; that way if you get something, u can call people and tell them to get checked. Not all infections show up in symptoms that would send a person to a doctor. Also, I question the idea that being a top will somehow keep u from getting HIV. I am only a top guy, and I still got HIV back in about 1979, diagnosed in 1983.
Christopher
I agree, Mark. We all can only live until we die. Donna Summer - a goddess. She excites my soul. I go to sleep most nights to MacArthur Park Suite (which I have remixed on youtube to include the 12" Single version of Heaven Knows). My only regret about her is that she and Babs never made a video for No More Tears (Enough is Enough)!
January 22, 2015