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[–]IridescentAnaconda 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Re: PrEP, fascinating to me how long-term dependency on a dangerous medication is seen as preferable to monogamy.

I have to keep my mouth shut around other gay men lest I speak heresy. My spouse and I are seen as reactionary prudes because we believe in lifelong commitment and monogamy. Smh.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

What is this medication? What condition do they have that is it curing?

[–]IridescentAnaconda 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So they're not sick at all, and they're taking this drug so they can buttfuck unsafely. Wonderful. I'm glad our scientific excellence is being misused like this.

[–]IridescentAnaconda 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well it all depends on what you mean by "sick". You could view coomer-brain sex addiction as an illness. But PrEP isn't really helping that problem, it's enabling it.

Seriously, when I first started hearing about gay men using PrEP so they could fuck indiscriminately without condoms, I set my stopwatch for the next major health crisis. Here we are.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My spouse and I are seen as reactionary prudes because we believe in lifelong commitment and monogamy. Smh.

Not that familiar with the gay community. Do you really think gay men are more 'degenerate' than heterosexual men? It seems to me that many men have a sex drive like this, but the sexual partner is where this diverges. The fact that a homosexual man has prospective partners (men) that are less discerning with a higher sex drive than the prospective partners of heterosexual men (women) would seem to account for why gay men often have more casual sex partners than heterosexual men - because its easier

[–]IridescentAnaconda 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To first order you are 100% correct. However, there is a second-order effect that reinforces the behavior: the culture. Among heterosexuals it is at least acceptable among some circles to discourage promiscuity. Among 99% of gay men you will quickly find yourself ostracized if you suggest that we maybe shouldn't be putting our dicks in random holes on an industrial scale.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It just happens to start in their genitals every time.

Also 5 people have died that we know of.

[–]IridescentAnaconda 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Does it start in the genitals? Do you have a source?

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Read literally any article by someone who caught it.

[–]IridescentAnaconda 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This one apparently began on his nose ... from his pic he looks pretty gay.

This one didn't say where it started. But a man in San Francisco with a pink-triangle t-shirt? C'mon.

The cases in this article don't mention genitals. All accounts are suggestive of being gay men (no wives mentioned, one mentioned being informed by his "sexual partner"), except for one "queer trans man". I wonder how she got a gay man to fuck her? Of course she's livid:

“In my experience, especially as a trans Latino person in New York City, my health and my concerns are not going to be emphasized,” [s]he said. “Things are going to go to people that have more access and that have more strings to pull and also who are of a different socioeconomic class.”

Anyway, that's three accounts, none of them mention spread from genitalia. I mean, yeah, metaphorically you could say that the disease is of genital origins, but I don't think that it literally starts there.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/23/i-literally-screamed-out-loud-in-pain-my-two-weeks-of-monkeypox-hell

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mattford/i-have-monkeypox-my-symptoms-so-far

I don't know why you bothered posting articles which didn't state where it started rather than funding ones which did.

If they don't want to tell you where it started it's likely they are hiding something.

Edit: also this curtesy of Raven

https://saidit.net/comments/9iyn/comment/yqxp?context=3