PrEP
New ish indications for Pre Exposure Prophylaxis against HIV seem to be trending to recommend more groups be offered anti retroviral meds to prevent HIV.
It used to be exclusively for gay men. Now hetero men having high risk exposure are included.
Anyone getting signed up for PrEP? Condoms do break sometimes, but is it really time to go this far?
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Okay, don't get me wrong, I'm really glad they've made so much progress in treating a truly awful disease. But do they have to keep saying that their drug makes you "undetectable"? I get it (they quickly flub over it in the commercials) that "undetectable" means the viral load is low enough that it won't be transmitted. But for fuck's sake, you're still carrying a potentially fatal disease, or at the very least one that will transform someone's life in NOT a good way. Sorry, but shooting your minimally infected jizz load into someone is like saying Hey I'm just gonna put a little cyanide in this person's drink, but it's such a small amount it won't hurt them.
"Undetectable" sounds so fucking suspicious, like maybe since you're "undetectable" you don't need to disclose your condition to potential sex partners, since I assume that might be an obstacle to getting laid. It just seems creepy as fuck that your goal is to become undetectable. "Ooh... I won't get caught."
But this is taking it too far. Hell, I won't even stop getting bbbj over the concerns of hiv since the odds are low enough that I am willing to take that risk. I can see why some fs sex workers would go for this since they likely have sex with more strangers than I do since I only go for extras 2 or 3 times per month.
I could also see a guy that does bbfs with sex workers or random strangers wanting to go this route since their chance of exposure is higher. Personally I'll just stick with bbbjs and covered fs like I always have.