HIV/AIDS: Gay Porn Industry Scandal

AS sent me this link from the BBC -- he's one of my dear straight friends, so it's an unusual source for a gay story.

There is a scandal going down in the gay porn industry in Britain about the barebacking movement, which, according to the article, makes up 60% of all sales these days.

Most heterosexual pornography has never featured condoms. But showing unprotected sex became taboo in gay porn after HIV and Aids emerged in the 1980s...

Some health officials believe this is a sign of a wider complacency in society about the risks of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases which is mirrored in rising statistics for new infections.

Ceri Evans, Senior Sexual Health Adviser at West London Centre for Sexual Health, told Newsnight: "I think that there is a possibility of something being called condom fatigue.

"We have been talking about condoms so long that people are bored or think they know it all. Education in schools is not what it could be, for anybody, for heterosexual but particularly if you are gay."

Thank god someone is finally doing something about this. Barebacking vids on all sorts of websites, all the time. There's a problem there.

Thank you to Ms. Evans for calling the lack of sexual education for LGBT youth. Thank to Chi Chi LaRue and directors like Sean Cody and Rob Navarro who continue to pointedly use condoms in their films.

Well, most of them, at least.

(I am not researching the names of the films, or actors, or anything else about the films because I do not want to be the one to make them famous. Especially the one that, reportedly, shows the point at which someone became infected.)