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This article is out today. I know there has been a lot of discussion of barebacking recently here. Everyone should keep in mind that whether or not to bareback is not an ideological question; it is a practical one. More barebacking is occurring; more STDs are being spread among gay men. I think that gay pride & sexual freedom come with the need for responsibility, both for individuals and the gay community at large. Whatever else barebacking might be, it is not responsible behavior. If a corporation were infecting gay men with diseases at the rate we are infecting ourselves, we would all be in an uproar and it would lead the news every night. I sort of feel like the AIDS epidemic of the 80's & early 90's, when gay men were dropping like flies, has come to be our World War I. It may take a wave of drug-resistant viruses killing off another generation to learn the permanent lessons of respecting ourselves enough to protect ourselves. That would be World War II. I would love to be deemed way over-worried twenty years from now, without losing lots of our friends and family to preventable sexual infection (HIV, yes, but all those other STDs, too). Statistics, though, show that we are on that path. Gonorrhea, Syphilis Regain Traction in U.S., CDC Reports - Bloomberg