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?

STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) can be killers. They can blind you, make you impotent, or cause serious harm internally, and of course, THEY CAN KILL.

Lack of concise information, OF EDUCATION, is needed and it has to begin at an early enough age to have an impact. This dribble of teaching about Abstinence, of saving one’s self is nice, in theory, but in Practice it really had no visible impact on teenage sex. It doesn’t curtail it, and it certainly doesn’t lessen it, but what it does do is give a false sense of security, of invincibility that leads to serious health risks.

In Pennsylvania, one district, there is an unbelievable rate of infections, but what is scary about the story, is that on a national basis, the rates aren’t declining. That after EIGHT YEARS OF BUSHISM, the health of the young has gotten worse. This is from a lack of EDUCATION.

It’s estimated that 10 percent of the 3,000 middle and high school students in the Delaware Valley School District in Milford, P.A., are infected with an STD — including one confirmed case of HIV, Times Herald Record reported Friday. (source – Fox News)

It really is confusing. I mean there is outrage over the Supreme Court Ruling that Child Reapists can’t be Executed, and yet these same people are allowing their children to become infected with life threatening illness, because somehow sex is dirty, and not to be discussed.

It really makes no sense.

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‘?