Tag Archives: safer sex

DJ Shane Stiel: Raw

From the AIDS Healthcare Foundation comes a series of safer sex clips. This one features JMG reader and Midweek Mix contributor DJ Shane Stiel.

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NYC Takes HIV Campaign To The Subway

NYC’s Department of Health is taking its controversial HIV prevention campaign to the city’s trains, where posters warning of HIV-related complications such as osteoporosis, dementia and anal cancer will appear beginning this week. Via press release: “We are very concerned with rising rates of new HIV infections in young men who have sex with men, particularly those who are African-American …

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RUSSIA: Gay Condom Ads Launch

(Via – Towleroad)

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CALIFORNIA: State OSHA Fines Gay Porn Studio For Allowing Barebacking

The California division of OSHA has fined the gay porn studio Treasure Island Media for workplace practices that exposed employees to potentially infectious agents such as semen. The company is appealing the fines, which total over $21,000 for three separate citations. Lyla Katz reports at Xbiz: “On Nov. 5, 2009, Treasure Island Media had failed to write or otherwise establish, …

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Pope OKs Condom Use For Male Hookers

In a bizarre interview with a German journalist, Emperor Palpatine has decreed for the first time that the usage of condoms is now sanctioned by the Catholic Church in “certain circumstances.” The “for example” he uses? Male hookers! To illustrate his apparent shift in position, Benedict offered the example of a male prostitute using a condom. “There may be justified …

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Totally The Worst Clip In The Entire All-Time History Of Everything

Mark this date. It’s the end of the internet.

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CDC Reports 1 In 5 Urban Gay Men Are Poz

According to a new report from the Centers For Disease Control, 19% of urban gay and bisexual men are HIV positive but one-quarter to one-half of them don’t know it. Researchers at the CDC studied 8,153 men who have sex with men in 21 U.S. cities. The men were taking part in the 2008 National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System, which …

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POLL: Two-Thirds Of American Gay Men Support HIV Transmission Laws

According to a poll published today on AIDSmap.com, two-thirds of American gay men support laws that make it illegal for HIV-positive people to have unprotected anal sex without disclosing their status. The pollsters recruited 1725 gay men via social network sites. “Believing that it should be illegal was associated with HIV-negative or unknown status, less education, having a non-gay sexual …

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Bareback In Brazil

The SFist is questioning the appropriateness of the above ad which is now appearing in San Francisco. LAN Airlines, a “gay-friendly” airline that served as the official international airline for San Francisco Pride 2010, has a new ad campaign popping up at Muni stops all over San Francisco. Hmm. Do you think LAN — who, we repeat, markets to San …

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Study Claims Using HIV Meds As Preventive To Infection Is Safe For Negative Gay Men

A study released at the AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna claims that using widely-prescribed HIV medications as a preventive for new infections (PrEP) is safe for HIV-negative men who have sex with men. Please note that effectiveness in preventing infection results have not yet been released on this study. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with tenofovir (found in Viread, Truvada and Atripla) …

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What Would PrEP Mean For Safer Sex?

PrEP stands for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, the taking of a medication in advance of a possible exposure to a disease. Commonly used for decades in travelers to exotic locales, multiple PrEP trials are currently underway to examine to effectiveness of taking an HIV medication prior to exposure. Putting aside the worrisome aspect of long-term side effects, the prospect of a daily …

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DCFUK!T Releases Sex Ed Spoof

Washington DC-based safer sex advocates DCFUK!T have created an instructional film that spoofs 1950’s sex education films. The below edited version is possibly office-safe. (Depending on where you work!) The unedited and very NSFW version is here. The clip features porn stars Matthew Rush and Brent Corrigan, the latter of which has recently taken part in several safer sex campaigns …

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No Bareback Porn On Sale At IML

The International Mr. Leather convention has followed through on their vow to ban the selling of barebacking porn at their vendor mart. Via Chicagoist: “For many years, our organization has always preached the importance of safe- sex,” explains [IML coordinator RJ] Chaffin. “It has been on the lips of many people, [the fact that] we speak out on safe-sex, but …

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Spain Gives The Middle Finger To AIDS

Andres Duque at Blabbeando directs us to the below safe sex campaign from Spain which has just won a coveted Summit International Award for advertising. Andres translates the opening of the clip: “To you, who has fucked us during so many years, who CRUSH us all, young people, older people, women, men, heterosexuals and homosexuals. To you, ABOMINABLE being… we …

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A Barebacker Repents

Former barebacking porn star Brent Corrigan has amended his unsafe ways and is apologizing to the to the gay male community by participating in a safer sex campaign conducted by the Washington-based DC FUK!T. Via press release: DC FUK!T, a Washington D.C. based safer sex advocacy group, released its latest “How to Put on a Condom” video, staring adult performer, …

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NYC Releases Condom Use Study

Gawker tips us to this new study by the NYC Department of Health. Unprotected anal sex poses well known health hazards for men, but new research suggests that the practice is a significant health issue for women as well. More than 100,000 New York City women engage in anal intercourse each year, according to a new report from the Health …

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AIDS Healthcare Sues Porn Agents For Allowing Clients To Bareback

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Los Angeles is suing nine porn actors’ agencies for letting their clients bareback in movies. The lawsuit was filed with the California labor commissioner. “These talent agencies are a pipeline for the procurement of young people for the adult film industry,” said Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation. “It is reckless for these agents …

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Elective Rectal Cleansing

Portfolio points us to a new Fleet disposable douche campaign targeted at gay men. Fleet’s new product is for “elective rectal cleansing.” “We’ve always known that some of our consumers were using Fleet enemas for reasons other than to relieve constipation, so we wanted to develop a product that would meet the needs of those users and provide them with …

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Maybe It Really IS The Big Easy

Rubber retailer CondomMania has analyzed the sales patterns of their custom-fit condoms and arrived at the above ranking of American cities by size requests. “These fitted condoms range in length from 3 to 10 inches and from super slim to extra roomy.” says Chris Filkins, Condomania’s Directory of Technology. “After gathering detailed information on over 27,000 penises, we now have …

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Dutch Studies: Newly Diagnosed HIV+ Will Have “Near Normal” Lifespans

According to a just-released pair of studies out of the Netherlands, newly diagnosed HIV+ people will live a near-normal lifespan provided they begin treatment fairly soon after infection. With that proviso, a typical person diagnosed at age 25 is expected to live another 52.2 years, yielding an average lifespan scarcely different from the uninfected. It should be noted that patients …

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