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People that identify as heterosexual have extremely poor STD testing routines. People that identify as gay or bisexual have better STD testing routines. All g
by vmception 5y ago
People that identify as heterosexual have extremely poor STD testing routines.
People that identify as gay or bisexual have better STD testing routines.
All groups have better STD testing routines and preemptive measures than before.
Gay and bisexual groups have better results by being more proactive.
No new risker behavior is being seen as more prevalent from this data, in the UK.
- oh_sigh 5y agoI wonder if increasing public acceptance of gays is helping as well. Maybe in the past, you were kind of forced into the 'gay club'/promiscuous sex subgroup, even if you were just looking for a longterm monogamous relationship, because there just weren't many places to meet potential partners.
- vmception 5y agoprobably helps, the mobile-first dating apps have had a pretty wide and nearly immediate rollout across all orientations over the last decade - which is the time period this report looks at - so people could find each other based more so on the theme of the app (longterm, fling, religion, wealth, extroversion, introversion etc) instead of just the supposed theme if their orientation (but thats an option too)
- GameOfFrowns 5y agoActually apps like Grindr (and ofc Tinder for heterosexuals) allowed for more short-term sexual contacts than ever before, thereby massively helped the spread of STIs.
- vmception 5y agoshort term sexual encounters will outnumber introverted long term ones, this thread is about the option of choosing where you want to find connection being better, within a comment thread about only HIV spread going down, not all STIs. I think its an ok observation just not really what we’re going over or trying to imagine an optimization for