Sensible stuff from bloke.
The question still remains where are all the bare backers and the folk who ride their bikes in jeans and a t shirt.
I hate it when threads turn into group think.
Statistically I do think HIV is blown out of all proportion as a risk. Yes we would still use condoms (given the chance) in a swinging situation but it still does not change the facts as a few have said.
Here are a few things I have been told over the years. Some may be correct others not so.
1: Chances of catching Aids from Vaginal sex as a man with a HIV+ woman 1 in 100
2: In Bristol where I live at any one time there are only 6 people who unknowingly have aids or HIV+
3: Very surprised this has not been mentioned yet but HIV passes far more easily from anal sex and thats why its more predominant in the Gay community. Membranes are thiner in the rectum so I was told.
4: The whole huge 80's HIV scare originated from countries in Africa where men giving the ladies anal sex is a contraceptive measure and widespread.
On a side note, how many people using condoms for swinging smoke? Smoking giving you a 1 in 3 chance of death. Interesting how people weigh up risk.
HIV in the United Kingdom: 2008 report
Authors:
HPA
Publication date: November 2008
Synopsis
* An estimated 77,400 people were living with HIV in the UK at the end of 2007, of whom over a quarter (28%) were unaware of their infection.
* During 2007 there were 7734 new diagnoses of HIV, a similarly high figure to the diagnoses made in each of the previous four years.
* New HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men continue to increase and over four-fifths of these infections were probably acquired in the UK.
* The estimated number of people infected through heterosexual contact within the UK has increased from 540 new diagnoses in 2003 to 960 in 2007, and has doubled, from 11% to 23%, as a proportion of all heterosexual diagnoses during this period.
* Almost a third (31%) of persons newly diagnosed with HIV were diagnosed late, that is at a point after which therapy should have begun (CD4 cell count less than 200 per mm3).
* Seventy percent of the 56,556 persons seen for HIV care were receiving anti-retroviral therapy. Almost one in five HIV-infected persons with severe immunosuppression, however, were not on treatment.
* Uptake of HIV testing in genitourinary medicine and antenatal clinic settings reached 75% and 94%, respectively.
Tells me that HIV is increasing and the largest section of society it's increasing is in the heterosexual community - Nuff said.
"* An estimated 77,400 people were living with HIV in the UK at the end of 2007, of whom over a quarter (28%) were unaware of their infection."
How do they know 28% were unaware of their infection? If you don't know you have it, you can't have been tested??
And "estimated"? Surely the health authority should know how many people have HIV in the UK.
I'm always very dubious about statistics!
Mrs Secksy
Its no surprise that the numbers of heterosexual Aids contractions has risen but from what I can tell its only risen in line with the rise in young adult heterosexual promiscuity. Makes sense.
I just have to say i've been on here over 2 years and have prob seen 100's of profiles with bareback pics....and just the other day a single guy took a strop when i gave him the reasons i wld never meet him he is bareback with at least 2 different women in his pics.. and his retort was 'they wanted it bareback', i'm always amazed on here that as a swingsite people are casual about protection...
I just have to say i've been on here over 2 years and have prob seen 100's of profiles with bareback pics....and just the other day a single guy took a strop when i gave him the reasons i wld never meet him he is bareback with at least 2 different women in his pics.. and his retort was 'they wanted it bareback', i'm always amazed on here that as a swingsite people are casual about protection...
I only ever f*ck J and thats a choice thing ever since I met her.
I think that nature takes over. you and your partner lose responsibilities and coherent thought as you enjoy the ecstasy of a 'mad fuck'. that is what good sex is supposed to do.
And there's nothing any authority can do to interfere with that mad fuck. And both men and women are going to go for it, because nature does it for them.
humans are proliferating because of it. we probably would not have evolved quite so fast without that mad fuck genetics in our favour.
So what does nature want us to do next, apart from having mad fucks? I don't know. But perhaps hiv and aids is actually how we are supposed to go on evolving.
Also before antibiotics came into use, many of us died from immunity defficiency in a variety of forms. And we would still die now from 'common' complaints without antibiotics. And equally people are dying from things which are currently unrecognised and the idea or concept is not new. But it was admirably re-presented at the outset of the discovery of aids.
u can still fuck madly with a condom....lol