If you've ever lost a night of sleep worrying about the risk of getting either one, I genuinely feel sorry for you. Don't eat ass or suck a guy's dick after he's fucked someone without a condom & hasn't thoroughly showered, and your risk of hep A & B is almost nil. by AnonymousĪs noted, hep A & B have vaccines, and are OVERWHELMINGLY spread via anal-oral contact. Other communities will be more challenging to help, but at least that one particular group can all but eliminate new HIV infections among its cohorts. Truvada works, and it's your own stupid fault for getting infected if you don't take advantage of it. The fact is, as of approximately now, there's no excuse for a middle-class white gay guy with a real job and health insurance to become newly infected by HIV. Let the others deal with their own HIV risk by taking Truvada themselves, or roll the dice and risk infection thinking it's better to "trust" their partners. If you personally take Truvada daily, YOUR risk of contracting HIV falls as close to zero as it's ever going to get short of physically-enforced celibacy. R13 - The nice thing about PrEP is that you don't HAVE to trust the guy you're having sex with, unless you're stupid enough to think being "PrEP'ed by Proxy" is any better than blindly taking guys' word for it that they're "neg" and "DDF". R12 is the example of why nutty conspiracy theorists get advertisers, let alone airtime. Make your appointments TOMORROW, just in case there's a two-week wait to get an appointment. So if you want to be protected by Christmas Eve, 12/12 is realistically the last day you can be at the doctor's office getting tested and still get your Truvada in time to be protected on Christmas Eve. Reminder: from the moment you have your doctor appointment to get the lab work done, it's going to take about a week under the best circumstances before you'll have Truvada in your hands. And I have more guys who've contacted me over the past month than have contacted me over the previous FOUR YEARS to prove it. It might have existed a year or two ago when nobody knew what it meant & thought it was probably a new codeword for "poz", but NOW it's an unambiguous selling point. Hands down, no contest.Īnti-PrEP stigma is a myth. When you're effectively immune to HIV, a fun & hot guy who's poz & undetectable wins out over a neurotic, nervous guy who thinks he can get HIV from a blowjob (then proceeds to bareback for anyone who says he's "DDF", and has roughly 5-10% odds of unknowingly having a viral load in the millions). But I have so many hot guys messaging me now every time I go on, I don't even *care* about them anymore. Have any guys decided against contacting me because I'm PrEP'ed? Probably. I've had nights where I was literally getting messages, woofs, and private albums shared faster than I could look at them, let alone reply. The reality is that the number of guys sending me woofs and messages has TREBLED since I did it a few weeks ago. For the first few months, I was afraid that proclaiming my PrEP'ed status would get me shunned the same way poz guys often are. Plus, there's no real drawback to putting it in your profile. By extension of #1, it's a way to let poz guys know you're totally 100% OK with their status. It's a nice way to make it unambiguously clear that you're personally negative, with Truvada-backed extended warranty to guarantee it, without making guys who are poz feel insulted or put down.Ģ. As someone who personally takes Truvada for PrEP and has "PrEP'ed for anxiety-free fun" verbatim in my profile, here are a few reasons:ġ.
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