Mr.Devine

After reading countelss posts on this topic...you guys need someone like ME, who as studied HIV for close to13 years. I am a skeptic-so I did it THOROUGHLY and intensely and from countless sources and even participatd in many risky studies MYSELF to make sure. These are the facts. All doomsayers and bitter housewives can go against me all they want...it is LIKELY they have chosen to believe scare tactics. So here we go:

1. Notice THE GENERAL POPULATION DOES NOT HAVE HIV or AIDS. Why? It's not so easy to get.

2. Once HIV hits AIR, it is dead. So those of you worrying about cuts and hand-jobs can rest. No chance there. HIV NEEDS A HOST. It is a WEAK VIRUS. That's hard for you to believe, because it has the power to kill, but it's GETTING IN YOUR SYSTEM--where it is weak. There are many factors there.


2b) An infected person is more likely to spread the disease if they have a HIGH VIRAL load. Most people with a high viral load have more important things to tend to than having sex. While it's not 100% impossible to spread the virus with a LOW viral load, it is less likely.

3. A woman has thick vaginal walls, it's not as delicate as many believe. HIV rarely enters the bloodstream via vaginal walls. Also HIV must enter the womb, it is said, and for whatever reason, that rarely happens. The chances of HIV infection via unprotected vaginal intercourse are actually 1 on 8000. Via anal intercourse it is 1 on 500.

4. If a man is ONLY having straight sex, it is extremely unlikey he has HIV, as there are no means of HIV entry into his bloodstream. WHY?

5. BECAUSE nothing enters the male urethra except bacterias (such as bacterial STD's, which HIV is NOT). Do you honestly believe that if someone were to put Cool Aid in their mouth and blow in a man's penis, that COOL AID would invade his bloodstream?! Come on! Even a catheter is for EXPULSION only. Not to mention, the chances of blood entering the male urethra AT ALL is minimal at best.

6. Gay men are not at ANYMORE risk than women! MANY> MANY women engage in anal sex with a man. The rectal area is rather delicate, but not as much as was previously believed. Your chances are 1 in 500, with unprotected anal intercouse with an infected partner. Why do many gay men have it? Because those who do NOT use condoms are no doubt exposed to HIV SEVERAL TIMES. ONE of those times it's BOUND to finally get in a persons bloodstream. So the chances of infection are higher, given those circumstances. Also, anal intercourse is a gay man's only method of penetrative sex. Not all gay men "bareback" so most gay people are not at anymore risk than anyone else.

7. Oral sex? If you RUSH home from having a root canal at the dentist's office and perform oral sex on an infected partner, you may get infected. But probably not. And who wants to perform oral sex right after dental work? Stomach acids (if semen containing HIV is swallowed) kill all HIV, with no problem.

8. Even if HIV is DIRECTLY injected into you, HIV must have a host to cling to and invade. There is not a 100% chance that will happen, although it is an outrageous risk.

9. We must never forget people in Africa are STARVING and subjected to a NUMBER of diseases. It is faster AND CHEAPER for the government to chalk it up to "another AIDS death." Also, many men engage in anal intercouse with other men to avoid ANOTHER pregnancy (in Africa) and this contributes to risk. Anal intercourse with women there, is not unusual also.

[And Magic Johnson? He got it from injecting steroids or speed...or...well....he has a secret he did not want us to know (OR his wife to know). HE DID NOT get it from "being a stud" as he'd like you to believe. (He may have had a herpes sore on his penis at the time, however).]

10. A herpes sore on a man's penis or woman's vagina is a risk factor for transmission of HIV (not to mention getting herpes!). You shouldn't be having condomless sex ANYway if you are in an active herpes stage.

So...there you have it . Here's an uncomplicated breakdown:

1. Oral sex is a VERY minimal risk. If it were a high risk, we'd ALL have HIV. Condoms for oral sex is pretty silly, but if it comforts you, that's OK. There HAVE NOT BEEN several documented cases of HIV being transmitted via oral sex. That was a lie and a scare tactic.

2. UNprotected anal intercourse is risky FOR THE RECEIVER. It is best to use condoms for this act. It is risky for the INSERTER, if they have a herpes sore, and it's risky for ALL bacterial STD's.

3. Needle injection is by far the riskiest of all.

4. There really are no "high risk groups" with the exception of needle injecting drug users and very promiscuous gay men who have unprotected sex (and these days, gay men are a lot wiser than everyone else, having been devastated by HIV and AIDS for the past 23 years).

This "on the rise" stuff is hilarious. Our sex practices HAVE NOT CHANGED IN a million years....why the hell would we ALL OF A SUDDEN change our sex lives and create an "on the rise" situation? These supposed "high risk groups" have not changed since HIV and AIDS became a global concern in 1980. This business about black gay men, or latinos or whatever being "on the rise" is dumb. IF an I repeat IF they are a "high risk group" they ALWAYS have been. Just because statistics are just being discovered NOW does not mean it's new and "on the rise." It just means it was overlooked all these years.


So DO practice safe sex, but without the frantic fear. This exaggerated fear makes sex technical and ugly. It does not have to be. If you "slip up" don't immediately think it's a death sentence, as STRESS CAN bring on HIV -like symptoms! Then you'll be REALLY stressed out.

Good luck and good sex!