I have to reblog this because the words couldn’t be truer. We see so many middle aged men in the advanced stages of AIDS at my hospital…still denying what has happened. This is a tragically real and sad problem. And yes I am a female reading gay male-male romance…and condoms will always be sexier than disease…even in fiction.
Recently I received a very nice review for Scrum. The reader enjoyed the story, but snickered a little at the lack of condom=no anal sex business. While this is his right, it also makes me worry. He defined it as “something that appeals to women readers.”
I know, because I have gay friends, gay acquaintances, and read a lot, that condom use and safer sex practices are far from universal. The moment gets away from you, the other guy is so damned hot, you trust what he said about his status, you don’t believe that HIV is a problem, whatever.
Except, it’s not whatever. It’s someone’s life. Many someones.
CDC estimates that approximately 50,000 people in the United States are newly infected with HIV each year. In 2010 (the most recent year that data are available), there were an estimated 47,500 new HIV infections.a Nearly two thirds of these new…
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Thanks for sharing. It’s only the “perception” that Condoms aren’t sexy. Most authors who write m/m are helping to change that perception….One book at a time!
It freaks me out when they don’t use them in m/f too. I’m such a stickler. Of course in those cases the woman always ends up pregnant. Ugh
I remember the years when so very many good men died and I see what’s happening even after that. No one is invincible but too many think it won’t happen to them or it’s easy to live with. My first thought about that is that if they don’t have a lot of money or very good insurance, it doesn’t really matter that great strides have been made.