Why do gay guys use condoms
Why do guys desire to use condoms when they are having sex with other guys if they can’t receive pregnant?
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Thanks for your ask. You are right – using condoms correctly, helps block unplanned pregnancies with vaginal sex (vaginal-penile sex). Using condoms also helps block sexually transmitted infections, such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Therefore, health take care of providers recommend using condoms with oral, vaginal, and anal sex. The excellent news is that condoms come in different varieties including shapes, flavors, lubrication, and texture. We recommend trying other condoms and seeing which ones you like the most.
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"What do you call a homosexual guy who got infected in the '80s? A victim. What do you call a gay guy who gets infected in 2010? An idiot." Skillfully put by a reader to my gay dating column, but way off the mark.
According to the CDC, new HIV infection rates among gay men maintain climbing and this year is no exception. I understand the level of anger a lot of gay guys have about this sobering trend. I've just had two 20-something friends shift HIV positive. Some in our inner circle went ballistic with anger. "Why didn't they utilize condoms?" seethed one friend. "It's not like they don't how to protect themselves -- they CHOSE not to. And if that's the case don't they deserve what they got?"
Well, no. True, if people were any more stupid about safe sex we'd have to water them twice a week, but the anger has no logic. When emergency workers pull dead or injured people out of motorcar crashes do they blame the victims for not wearing seat belts? Do they refuse to help them?
The standard reasons experts give about rising infections center around "Plague Fatigue" and misplaced "AIDS Optimism" (believing that HIV is manageable and a treat is just around the corner), but there's also a not many other
Some Gay Men on PrEP May End Using Condoms. Does It Matter?
When I talk to my adolescent patients about sex and sexuality, there’s a line I usually involve in my patter. I tell them that they’re in my office for medical advice, not moral guidance. The questions I question and information I give are for the purposes of keeping them sheltered and healthy, not so I can pass judgment on their character.
Ironically, it’s when I own patients who are gay men love me that I sometimes need to keep any moralizing in check.
In 2016, the National LGBTQ Task Force Behavior Fund and the National Coalition for LGBT Health noted the need for ongoing education and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Their guide specifically notes “People on PrEP may be less likely to use condoms, perceiving other STIs/STDs as easily cured despite the troubling grow of drug resistant gonorrhea.”
“PrEP” is limited for pre-exposure prophylaxis. It’s a regimen of two alternative medications that, when taken daily, can substantially reduce the likelihood of organism infected with HIV for those at increased risk, including men who own sex with other men (MSM). Reading that people taking it may be less likely to
Sexual health for queer and bisexual men
Having unprotected penetrative sex is the most likely way to pass on a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Using a condom helps guard against HIV and lowers the risk of getting many other STIs.
If you’re a man having sex with men (MSM), without condoms and with someone modern, you should have an STI and HIV examine every 3 months, otherwise, it should be at least once a year. This can be done at a sexual health clinic (SHC) or genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic. This is important, as some STIs do not generate any symptoms.
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is a liver infection that's spread by a virus in poo.
Hepatitis A is uncommon in the UK but you can acquire it through sex, including oral-anal sex ("rimming") and giving oral sex after anal sex. MSM with multiple partners are particularly at risk. You can also get it through contaminated food and drink.
Symptoms of hepatitis A can arrive up to 8 weeks after sex and contain tiredness and feeling sick (nausea).
Hepatitis A is not usually life-threatening and most people make a entire recovery within a couple of months.
MSM can elude getting hepatitis A by:
- washing hands after se