Excellent article on an under reported subject.
(sexual public health is one of the Left's Science! blind spots)
Here is the skinny.
Promiscuous (aka non-monogamous) sex will ALWAYS lead to STDs.
Always.
Not because of God or Reagan or Jerry Falwell.
Because of Science!.
The only variables are how fast and how bad.
Rigorous condom use makes promiscuous sex slightly less unsafe but does not make it safe;
condomless promiscuous sex is the recipe for the next STD Plague.
It is Science.
Remember.
There is no 'if';
only when and how bad.
Now you know.

Stupid is as stupid screws.

But hey, at least the people arguing that condom use wouldn't go down were being ideologically pure!

Katie, many heteros also resist using condoms, the rise in STDs isn't because of gay men using PrEP alone. It's a confluence of many things, changes in sexual behavior and attitudes - reduction of stigma for no-strings sex and non-monogamous relationships, apps for hook ups, fewer religious BS and hang-ups (all of which by themselves aren't bad things, BTW), etc. When more people are having more sex with more partners and strangers, and are less afraid of dying from AIDS, or being demonized for it, STDs will rise. It would have been better for you to describe all the different STDs people can catch, so they know what they are risking when they go bare, than to ascribe the rise to PrEP!

You could have reported that there's been a case reported this year of a strain of Gonorrhea that is super-resistant to antiobiotics and that Clamydia, and Syphilis are also becoming more and more drug-resistant. That's right, folks, we are runniing out of drugs that can treat these things! Did you know that late-stage Syphylis causes megalomania and sometimes highly homocidal behaviors (think Henry VIII and his murderous offsprings!). Most STDs also will render you impotent and sterile if treatment is left too late, or is ineffective! Think about that, boys and girls, no sex and no kids even if you want them! You could also put up some pics showing how these diseases ravage the genitalia, that should deter all but the most drunk and self destructive of us!

I realize you're not trying to teach a health class here, but I can't tell what you're trying to say with this incomplete and maybe even misleading reporting.

I want to make it clear that I believe today's more open attitudes and behaviors toward sex is a good thing for all of us, lest anyone should mistakenly think I agree with the cranks @1 & @2

*Syphilis *running
all thumbs today!

Eek! *HOMICIDAL!

Prep = you're a slut. Avoid people who take this shit

Also avoid people who derisively refer to other people as sluts. Though I've no doubt most folks, particularly women, already do so instinctively.

Mike @9: want to avoid STDs? Avoid people who take a drug that enables them to freely engage in what was once risky sex. You're right, squirrel should have refrained from throwing around the word 'slut', but its point is valid.

Total bullshit that some guys can't fuck with a condom. See how fast they put that condom on when a partner says "no condom, no sex". Speaking from experience, I can only feel a condom when I'm going gentle and slow. More rigorous, and I can't feel it, and I simply don't believe guys who say they can.

@12 in don't have any skin in this game (straight, hereto, cis, married, monogamous, guy here)... But I can say it's pretty true for me. Pre-marriage, condom usage was always a struggle for me... And not because I was some careless asshole.

I'm not saying it never worked, but often one of two things would happen: I'd go soft during the process of getting it on; or I'd get it on and the penetrative portion of the fun time would go on and on (and on), until I went soft. And FTR, I don't have any ED problems sans condom.

I don't know if it's physical, mental, or some combination. But condom use was always very intimidating for these reasons... Which sucked.

Granted I'm not young anymore acting like a cat in heat, but what an ordeal to go through! Curious to know if there are any middle-aged to elderly PrEP users. If so, that's kinda sad.

@16 - Except for HIV positive partners, it just seems like an ordeal to go through that would eventually subside to other priorities in life.

Let's take up a collection for Our Dear Friends at #1 & #2 to rent them a sex worker of their choice. The poor things need a good explosive orgasm to clear their minds.

PReP exposed the taboo subject in gay society

a lot of us weren't wearing them consistently anyhow

18
Gosh Cat, what gives?
You used to be so witty and sassy and insightful.
Now it's like you're letting GermanSausage barf up your posts....

Brint dear, I am the same as always. It's your lack of sexual release that is making you the way you are. Are you one of those incels I read about in "Reader's Digest"?

@22 - Ooops! You just let it slip that you read Reader's Digest.

Raindrop dear, I am proud of my long
Subscription to “Reader’s Digest”. Indeed, I maybe the only surviving subscriber. I credit my regularity with it (that and my breakfast of stewed prunes). What could possibly make you think otherwise?

This is another gay sex panic article that is so misleading and hyperbolic that it's not worth my time responding in depth. I will only note that syphilis rates were already headed up well before PrEP. Condoms have never been enough- will never be enough- and we should be demanding better tools for dealing with STIs rather than using this as another opportunity to shame and degrade all gay men for not being able to use a terrible public health tool.

At least we know know the author would eradicate male homosexuality if she could.