“I started unraveling around mid-June. There was a contract I had with a company for a male enhancement product, and they were going to pay me monthly, but they decided to pull the contract. I was like ‘Ah!’ I was going into July, and then I got this positive on the syphilis test. It was just slam, slam, slam, and …
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On The Female Condom
One group at the AIDS Conference in DC is trying to bring attention back to the female condom for gay men. Via press release: ‘Strange,’ ‘unnatural,’ even ‘squishy’ sounding – these are just a few of the comments overheard in discussions around female condoms. Yet, listen to those who have actually used them and the conversation changes: ‘thinner,’ ‘more pleasurable’ …
Read More »Dickhead
Copyranter reports on the latest safer sex ad out of Germany: Translation: “Don’t risk your neck. Your decision for safer sex at love-rocks.de.” Got that, dickheads? Something like “Don’t think with your dick” would have been a better headline. One of these images is bad enough, but the ad agency, JWT in Frankfurt, felt that five were needed to convey …
Read More »LOS ANGELES: Referendum To Require Condoms In All Porn Makes County Ballot
Proponents of mandatory condom usage in all porn productions have succeeded in their bid to place the measure before Los Angeles County voters in November. In January the city council of Los Angeles adopted the same requirement. Via press release from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation: “We are extremely pleased to learn that our County of Los Angeles ballot measure to …
Read More »Lambda Legal Files Suit On Behalf Of Man Convicted Of Exposing Sex Partner To HIV
Lambda Legal has filed an appeal on behalf of a gay man originally sentenced to 25 years in prison for exposing a sex partner to HIV. The sentence was later reduced to five years of probation. The men used a condom during their one encounter and there was no transmission of HIV. Via press release: “The law only applies to …
Read More »Safer Sex Comic From France
Via Copyranter.
Read More »At The Condom Factory
An extended commercial for Trojan, but still interesting.(Via JMG reader Alan)
Read More »KENYA: Street Mob Storms Safer Sex Conference Held By Gay Activists
Clip description: “There was drama in Likoni , Mombasa this afternoon when angry members of the public stormed and broke up a training session for homosexuals. The trainees many of them young men escaped unharmed through the backdoor and as NTV’s Yassin Juma reports, organisers of the sessions are defiant and say they will continue with the activities.”
Read More »CALIFORNIA: Activist Group Launches Drive To Outlaw Bareback Porn Making
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has launched a petition drive for a ballot measure that would require condom usage in all porn produced in Los Angeles County. “The county has a primary responsibility of protecting the public health,” foundation President Michael Weinstein told The Times. Weinstein asserted that the county Board of Supervisors has “steadfastly refused” to take action against porn …
Read More »New Safer Sex PSA From Israel
Often I do not understand the metaphors of modern film making. This may be one of those times.(Tipped by JMG reader Eric)
Read More »AIDS Group To File Complaint Against Barebacking Porn Company
The controversial AIDS Healthcare Foundation says it will file a complaint against a Florida-based porn company after one of its actors became HIV-positive. According to a little-noticed item in Florida’s public health code, not using a condom during a porn shoot qualifies as a “sanitary nuisance.” So says the AHF, at least. “This is yet another suspected case of HIV …
Read More »HIV Infections Rise For Young Black Men
Today the Centers for Disease Control issued multi-year data on new HIV infections. While the number of new infections overall seems to be stable, young black gay men in particular are seeing a troubling increase. “More than 30 years into the HIV epidemic, about 50,000 people in this country still become infected each year. Not only do men who have …
Read More »AUSTRALIA: Safer Sex Activists Act Out Actual Anti-Gay Letters To The Editor
AUSTRALIA: Safer-Sex Campaign Reinstated After Ad Company Relents
Brisbane’s safer-sex ad campaign has been reinstated after widespread outrage across Australia. The campaign had been yanked after complaints from an anti-gay Christian group. Announcing their backflip this afternoon, the company said it had changed its mind because it did not realise it had been subjected to a campaign from the Australian Christian Lobby to remove the posters. “Following ACL …
Read More »AUSTRALIA: Christianist Group Forces Removal Of Safer Sex Campaign
An anti-gay Christian group in Brisbane, Australia has forced an outdoor advertising company to yank a just-launched safer sex campaign. The ads featured a fully-clothed gay couple holding an unopened condom. Adshel, the company that provides advertising for Brisbane’s bus shelters; Goa Billboards; and the Advertising Standards Bureau were targeted in an orchestrated campaign by the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL). …
Read More »Linda Harvey: End All Safer Sex Education
“This is the statistical face of deviance, out-of-control lust, and desperation. Most of the campaigns in this country to prevent HIV/AIDS do not take a strong stand against these unnecessary behaviors, but instead, talk around them and try to teach people to manage their misbehavior better. The numbers tell the story: it’s not working. What is that old definition of …
Read More »Safer Sex Park
Copyranter tips us to this possibly NSFW animated safer sex clip from France’s AIDES.
Read More »Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Promotion
A new campaign from the Men’s Sexual Health Project: With the kind support of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, M*SHP will be unveiling a program to provide emergency HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) in a streamlined and community-appropriate way. PEP has been recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for high risk sexual exposures since 2006, but very …
Read More »NYC Women & HIV/AIDS
In observance of this week’s National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, the New York City Department of Health has issued the above infographic, which is part of their NYC Knows campaign to get every city resident tested for HIV. (Tipped by JMG reader John)
Read More »Inspired By The Hefty Cinch-Sak
No, seriously, that was the inspiration. For the quickly-wilting man, one presumes.
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