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I can't see how it would have a positive effect. HIV infection rates in the gay community have shot up in recent years unfortunately as people have become compl

I can't see how it would have a positive effect. HIV infection rates in the gay community have shot up in recent years unfortunately as people have become complacent with condoms. Without the risk of pregnancy one can only assume the same thing will happen in the straight community.

digitalsushi 10y ago
To be fair, the straight and gay communities are really just opposite sides of the same fish tank, not two fish tanks, as a metaphor for compartmentalizing the sharing of diseases.
- JshWright 10y ago
  It's still reasonable to differentiate the primary motivation for condom use in the two 'communities'.
dionidium 10y ago
Keep in mind that receptive anal sex carries a risk of infection 18 times higher than that of receptive vaginal sex. Moreover, receptive vaginal sex is twice as likely to result in infection as insertive vaginal sex. http://www.catie.ca/en/pif/summer-2012/putting-number-it-risk-exposure-hiv http://www.catie.ca/en/pif/summer-2012/putting-number-it-ris...
sigmar 10y ago
>HIV infection rates in the gay community have shot up in recent years unfortunately as people have become complacent with condoms. This is not accurate in the US. HIV diagnoses among gay men have increased less than 1% from 2010-2014 according to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/ https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/
tgragnato 10y ago
There's a correlation between substance abuse (not addiction) and infections. > “Chemsex is a rapidly emerging pattern of drug use, not just amongst men who have sex with men as often assumed, but heterosexual patients as well,” Dr Richard Ma of the Royal College of GPs’ Sex Drugs Group told the Telegraph. [https://www.rt.com/uk/320758-chemsex-hiv-outbreak-doctors/ https://www.rt.com/uk/320758-chemsex-hiv-outbreak-doctors/] I see this as something related to the bar/disco/club culture rather than something linked to condoms.

digitalsushi 10y ago

To be fair, the straight and gay communities are really just opposite sides of the same fish tank, not two fish tanks, as a metaphor for compartmentalizing the sharing of diseases.

JshWright 10y ago
It's still reasonable to differentiate the primary motivation for condom use in the two 'communities'.

dionidium 10y ago

Keep in mind that receptive anal sex carries a risk of infection 18 times higher than that of receptive vaginal sex. Moreover, receptive vaginal sex is twice as likely to result in infection as insertive vaginal sex. http://www.catie.ca/en/pif/summer-2012/putting-number-it-risk-exposure-hiv http://www.catie.ca/en/pif/summer-2012/putting-number-it-ris...

sigmar 10y ago

>HIV infection rates in the gay community have shot up in recent years unfortunately as people have become complacent with condoms. This is not accurate in the US. HIV diagnoses among gay men have increased less than 1% from 2010-2014 according to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/ https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/

tgragnato 10y ago

There's a correlation between substance abuse (not addiction) and infections. > “Chemsex is a rapidly emerging pattern of drug use, not just amongst men who have sex with men as often assumed, but heterosexual patients as well,” Dr Richard Ma of the Royal College of GPs’ Sex Drugs Group told the Telegraph. [https://www.rt.com/uk/320758-chemsex-hiv-outbreak-doctors/ https://www.rt.com/uk/320758-chemsex-hiv-outbreak-doctors/] I see this as something related to the bar/disco/club culture rather than something linked to condoms.