The US Congress is once again debating this fifteen year old bill, and again the religious nut jobs are in full throttle. Again they claim that having openly serving gays will disrupt unit cohesiveness, will create untold problems, but what they don’t get, that shit didn’t work in the late 1940’s and 1950’s either when they tried to deny blacks from serving in mixed units.  Racism Never Works.

Among the most arresting debates Wednesday came when Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., a first-term congressman and the only Iraq war veteran in Congress, accused a witness of implying that U.S. service members weren’t professional enough to handle serving with homosexuals. (source – CBS News)

In some ways, I would agree. Americans really don’t seem willing to accept change, or people who are different very easily. I would call that racism, but then I am not politically correct. Course all those who oppose homosexuals, do so out of a deep moral conviction, a deep religious belief. They seem to forget, that as all man is created by HIM, that even us nasty queers are HIS CHILDREN.

So now, they have come up with a new one. They claim that allowing us Queers to openly serve, and because we are such horny persuasive people, the incidents of HIV INFECTION will rise Dramatically among the US Military Personnel.

Donnelly contended that if the law were repealed the number of HIV-positive service members would probably increase.

Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Ark., a Vietnam veteran and medical doctor, called that comment “so inappropriate” and suggested that Donnelly advocate for the military to recruit only lesbians, who he said have a low incidence of HIV. (source – CBS News)

You gotta love these hypocrites. To begin with, HIV is not restricted to just Gay Men, just as Gonorrhea or Syphilis aren’t restricted to single straight heterosexuals. Then again, I suppose this is all part of the secret Gay Agenda, to infect straight soldiers with HIV, so we can make them all Gay too. What galls me is that these people are being paid by Tax Dollars for their warped opinions. No wonder the Military is so screwed up.

For myself, the wife and I do use them, and we have been together now for 12 years. I know he won’t cheat on me, nor will I, on him. Yet we still use them, and I think it comes from fear. YES, fear, because there is no way of knowing for sure, how long a virus can remain dormant in our systems. That is why we still practice Safe Sex.

Both of us, have had our moments before we hooked up, so I don’t know, I simply don’t want to get him sick. He feels the same way, so yes we use Condoms, yet if you listen to the various forums, discussions, more and more Men are opting to forgo using Condoms.

The arguments are varied, but for most it seems to be that one, they don’t feel as natural as doing it without protection. Another excuse is that well, it is inconvenient to stop and put one on. Now, there are other reasons, but for the most part those are the two main one’s that I hear, and more than likely are what you might be thinking as well.

Truth of the matter is, IT IS YOUR LIFE. And no, not just talking about HIV either. That is just one of the many diseases that one can contract if you don’t use a condom. YES, they are not 100% guaranteed safe, you can still contract a disease, but the simple fact is, IT REDUCES DRAMATICALLY THE RISK OF INFECTION. Now that may not mean much, because after all, there are pills or shots to take, that can clear it up.

Course that assumes you get regularly tested for those diseases, and that your system hasn’t built up an immunity to the cure, or that the disease isn’t a strain that has built up a resistance to the treatment. The rise of super bugs is real, so it isn’t just a matter of getting a shot anymore.

The rate of P&S syphilis among men has risen 54 percent over the past five years (from 3.7 per 100,000 in 2002 to 5.7 per 100,000 in 2006), driving overall increases in syphilis rates for the nation. Several sources of data suggest that increased transmission of P&S syphilis among MSM may be largely responsible for these increases. Over time, the disparity between male and female case rates has grown considerably. The P&S syphilis rate among males is now nearly six times the rate among females, whereas the rates were almost equivalent a decade ago. (source – Center for Disease Control)

Now I don’t know about you, but that is scary shit. It is like the whole world has gone a bit over the edge, between flooding, warmer than normal temperatures, colder than normal in spots, and just, well everything. From falling house prices, to increase reposessions of cars, and foreclosures. Yet while they might be things we can’t do something about, infections are something we can try to limit, to mitigate.

Using Condoms might not feel natural, but then again, if your dick falls off or gets cut off because it’s diseased, ain’t nothing gonna feel natural again, now is it?

Sure, you might have to stop for a minute to unroll a condom, but if you do it the way my wife does, it can make the other person even more ready, hotter in fact. It can be fun, be very erotic too, or you can simply ignore it, and well so what if your groin is covered in ugly sores? I mean that’ll sure get that hot stud wanting to go down on you, won’t it?

Syphilis, a genital ulcerative disease, is highly infectious, but easily curable in its early (primary and secondary) stages. If untreated, it can lead to serious longterm complications, including brain, cardiovascular, and organ damage, and even death. (source – CDC)

So Is Your Life Worth It?

The issue is simply that we can all contract various illnesses. That is a fact of life.

What isn’t a fact, is that by our actions, we can speed that process up, influence it to the point where we can better our odds of catching something harmful like HIV or Hep C, or other illnesses. Take smoking, many still do, including me, which is just plain stupid. Yet it has taken hold, and the effort to stop is hard, almost impossible for some, yet we rationally know, we need to stop smoking, but we still puff away.

Sex is kind of like that. It truly is addicting, and oh so wonderful, but we fail to take the precautions needed to insure our safety. We ignore the risks of not just catching HIV, but of other dangerous illnesses. We live in our own little world, helped along perhaps by the porn we view. We see hot studs fucking, and no condoms. We see cute twinks swallowing buckets of cum, and think nothing of it.

Yet there is a risk, a huge one.  Not just HIV, but the other scourges that exist in our world, that have been around for eons. Gonorrhea, Syphilis, and others with equally devastating effects if untreated. It is something we should think about it, next time we watch some porn, and you have to wonder too, how safe are those actors? Are they even tested, or do the studios not care enough to insist on that?

Hot Desert Knights, a bareback video studio, is taking the lead in the Adult Industry, but not just testing for HIV, but other STDs that put performer’s at risk. It is a bold step in the Porn Industry (read the press release here) that has opened my eyes a little. I actually am naive enough to have ASSUMED that most performers were routinely tested by the studios they worked for.

I AM WRONG.

And that rather burns me up too, because why aren’t they doing any testing? If you work in any industry, there are safety precautions required. You can’t work on a construction site without steel toed boots, hard hat, so why can you work in a porn studio without being tested or protected from diseases?

We live in a throw away society, and I wonder, because society looks down on those who work in the sex industry, do they consider them merely ‘throw aways‘?