Aids Foundation Research reveals shocking truth.
Recent Aids Foundation research has confirmed major concerns about the risks gay men take after meeting each other online.
The internet has allowed sexual relationships between men to flourish, and a scary amount of these fellas are not waxing up!
A whole new meaning to Safe sex for men!
“Internet dating helps people become more efficient `shoppers’ in the sexual marketplace, but whether they’re also more informed shoppers is now questionable,” Aids Foundation senior researcher Peter Saxton said.
The survey found the more often a person used websites for sexual liaisons, the more likely they were to be careless about condoms and the less likely they were to know about the risks of HIV.
A quarter of men who used a dating website daily said they would sometimes not use a condom, compared to 10% of those who only occasionally visited.
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One dating website user, who did not wish to be named, reported that he had met men who did not want to use a condom and on the odd occasion he had agreed.
“It is like when everyone is saying `smoking is bad for you’, so when you smoke, you feel like a rebel. You are doing something really, really naughty, and not even thinking `will I catch something or not?’.”
Most people did not ask each other if they had recently had an HIV test, he said.
Saxton said the reasons dating website users took more risks were complicated. Users tended to be younger and were more likely to identify as bisexual.
As society moved from persecution to tolerance of homosexuality, there had been a gradual erosion of a strong community identifying as gay.
This meant public health advertisements in gay bars and clubs were being seen by fewer young people, because they no longer considered their sexuality as the defining aspect of their personality. They tended to increasingly socialise in mainstream bars and clubs, while using the internet to hook up.
Bisexual men, a large proportion of whom were married and never went into gay bars, use the internet for convenient, and discreet, sexual encounters.
Learn from Freddie – rubber up!!!
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