I still do not think it is fair to say it is just the gay populous.
Just as it is unfair for homosexuals to be singled out when:
...the accuracy of HIV screens has improved by several orders of magnitude. The ability to screen for HIV is so close to 100% accurate today that if the ban were lifted, the number of HIV-tainted pints of blood that slipped through the screening process would increase by only three per century.
This only serves to prove the deep seated distrust of homosexuals in general society.
Osiris, you have only toyed with homosexuality. Some of us have to live with this shit
every day. I am fortunate to be able to still interact with guys half my age, and I am appalled how barebacking is considered SOP in almost every first encounter.
And don't think my shit doesn't stink, because I do commit the act myself - while I insist on a condom in the early stages of a relationship (however long or short) for anything involving anal, I don't insist on one for oral in the same context.
And yeah - straight folks bareback every day, and still get to escape scrutinization. But all that doesn't address the inference (as I took it) of this thread - why, in this day, are gays still singled out.
Add meth users (with their requisite loss of judgment), looking for ass breeding for days on end, to the still too common perception in youth that barebacking is OK in casual encounters, and you might see my "large chunk of gay population not acting responsibly" in a different light.
Add to that the popularity of poppers/nitrates (which is murder on one's immune system - IIRC, a large contributor to why HIV numbers were skewed towards gays for a long time)... lessee, what else am I missing...
eh. My point is made.
all of whom contracted HIV before they realized the impact og HIV)
