How Internet Sex on Demand Spreads HIV

From his HIV diagnosis in 1985 until his death in April of 2009, Cass Mann was one of the world's longest-term HIV-positive survivors. He founded Positively Healthy, the UK's only HIV/AIDS charity staffed exclusively by openly gay men, which provided HIV services including education, support, and peer counselling. These videos now archive his wisdom and insight for future generations. Here he talks about how the Internet is the most radical tool we have today for sex. You can search for people who want to have sex right now in your neighborhood. When people show up, they often don't care about safer sex and don't use condoms unless you specifically request it. For more information, visit http://www.AIDSvideos.org/. This video is freely downloadable from http://www.archive.org/details/HowInternetSex-on-demandContributesToTheSpread... . [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate our videos into other languages! Click http://AIDSvideos.org/translate.shtml to to learn how you can help!!! © Copyright 2008-2011 Global Lifeworks. All rights reserved. This work is licensed to be used for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.]

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[PhilipRochester]

The new HIV infections amongst gay men known to me have come about as result of their having had take-away sex via the Internet with gay men who were HIV-positive but did not use condoms or disclose their status, not that my friends are without responsibility in this respect. Almost all the Internet take-away sex chatrooms and websites promote barebacking (unprotected sex) and this, coupled with the drug and alcohol intake which accompanies such lethal sex, causes these new HIV infections.

[globehunter2]

The internet is the new bath house for instant

sexual availability. Sex has evolved into a ditgital fast food market` web sites promote

it like a social pass time with no real fear

of disease? they make it seem so harmless

with all the easy steps in attaining it. Thats

why HIV his spreading faster due to easy access and computer contacts.

[DerekChaunessey]

Okay don't rail me for this comment but I'm still a bit in denial about HIV being real. Yes people don't die from AIDS per se but from other ailments, but how do we know this was all caused by AIDS and HIV? I'm skeptical of pharmaceutical companies and their motives so perhaps I'm also skeptical about motives for providers of antiretrovirals for HIV. Any thoughts?

[atp777777]

lmao this guy is awesome

[marcusuk]

There's nothing I disagree with in the video, it's a list of facts about certain websites. However what isn't mentioned is that many people build long + lasting relationships online and that it's lower risk to meet someone for 'fun' when not under the influence. Many gay men start want a LTR, experience the scene and then accept that sex-on-demand is au fait. However I can think of more term non-open monogamous LTRs who met online than through bars and clubs. There's also more accountability.

[aquamanvan]

Online you do have the choice to express "safe-sex only",

and also to see if the profiles you are viewing state this as well. Furthermore, one has the ability to look out for profiles that mention "pnp" or 'bb", and avoid them. Therefore, it can feel safer in some regards than hooking up in more traditional ways. I think the problem lies in the depersonalization of others, and fast-food nature of many internet meet-ups.

[guppy478]

We should be thoroughly ashamed that as a community we have allowed our young men to carelessly pursue pleasure-on-demand to the exclusion of respect and compassion for their own and other people's lives. We have to find a way to live again, not dissipate into the general chaos.