Sexual Harm Reduction

Sex! Sex!! Sex!!! and Speed!

The man you’ve been fantasizing about since you were a budding baby fag has just walked into the erotic temple of choice: your bedroom, the curtained backroom of a bar’s once-a-week lights out party, that open-all-weekend sex club, the conveniently out of town bathhouse.

This sex god looks like the kind of man you want to give you the ass pounding of your life and, from what you can see, he carries the right tools to make this possibility a reality. As an added bonus, you’ve got the favors and are willing to share. You’ve obviously done your best to lure him in because he saunters right up to you and starts to peel out of his jeans or his briefs or to drop the towel. You can see that he’s ready and you know that you’re more than ready. As you reach for it, the conversation begins:

Man of your Dreams:

“Let’s make this really hot.”

You:

“You need a line?”

Man of your Dreams:

“No, I slam and I only fuck bareback.”

That little light bulb in your head blinks on and you tell yourself: “He must be on PrEP, otherwise he wouldn’t want to fuck me raw.” Or, if you’re negative, “He must be undetectable or negative otherwise he wouldn’t fuck me raw.” Or “Tops don’t get HIV.”

Or “If he pulls out before he cums, it’ll be okay.” Or “With all the risks I’ve taken, I must be immune.
Or, possibly, you’re high enough that the light bulb blinks on and then off again so fast that you don’t have to think about any of this.

And it’s on.

We at Tweaker.org want you to have a lot of hot sex. And to know the options so you can decide what works for you.

It’s good to know that we have options when choosing to have sex the way we want to and lower our risk for HIV or STIs. In 2012 a new medication was released that would become a key strategy in HIV prevention. PrEP, which stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis, is an effective way to prevent HIV. With PrEP, people who are HIV-negative take a pill (Truvada) once a day to reduce the risk of getting infected if they’re exposed to HIV. PrEP is an additional method that is recommended to be used with other HIV prevention strategies such as condoms.

While there are lots of things that lower our risk, it’s important to know that none of these strategies are foolproof. When we’re out in the mix and having sex with other guys, there can be the risk of getting or transmitting HIV.

If you or your sex partner is HIV-positive, communicate about viral load. A HIV-positive individual who has a suppressed viral load (undetectable) can NOT transmit HIV. Watch stories about what it means to be undetectable. Sometimes the term used for using HIV treatment as a way to limit transmission is “treatment as prevention.”

Have a strategy for anal sex with guys whose HIV status is different from yours: use condoms, PrEP, or treatment as prevention.

If condoms or PrEP aren’t in the picture
Have sex with guys the same HIV status as you. (serosorting)
Only do things you both agree to, like having the HIV negative guy do the fucking. (seropositioning)
Use lube and LOTS of it! This reduces the amount of tearing in the ass, tearing that might help HIV transmission happen.
Have more fuck buddies than anonymous partners. In other words, know your tricks better and treat your tricks right.

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Sex! Sex!! Sex!!! and Speed!

Man of your Dreams:

You:

Man of your Dreams:

And it’s on.

Sexual Harm Reduction

Don’t miss the money shot! Pull out before you cum.