“There are more ways to have safer sex now than just using condoms, and I think it’s a great thing,” Joseph Rough stated, a month ago in his interview with Manhunt Daily. It’s a quote that resonated with me deeply, as discussions about PrEP pop up everywhere from Gawker to STR8UPGAYPORN. In this day and age, you can’t be a gay man and avoid the debate.
As more condom-only performers “go bareback“—including someone as stubborn and previously judgmental as Michael Lucas—it’s becoming even clearer to me that this tiny little pill is changing the gay porn industry as we know it. The lines are blurred more than ever. We don’t know how “safe” or “unsafe” the people onscreen are being, and unless they’ve openly told us, we have no fucking right to assume anyone’s HIV status.
Why am I bringing this up? Because I’m realizing I probably wouldn’t have written about a scene like the one below when I first started working for this blog. It would have felt “socially irresponsible”, or I’d be nervous about people accusing me of “promoting dangerous behavior”… And quite frankly? As much as my feelings on this issue are complex and scattered, I’ve come to a point as an editor where I feel like I’m just presenting the way some people like to have sex.
In posting a scene like this, I’m encouraging a dialogue on the way we engage with one another, even if that aforementioned dialogue might dabble in immature, ignorant or just plain venomous territory. I’m also giving people who want to see Adam Russo simultaneously taking two cocks up his hairy hole the opportunity to witness such a sight. That’s pretty important, too.
If someone sees this scene and decides that they simply must partake in a similar experience, I refer back to the words used in my awkward disclaimer from back in the day: “We here at Manhunt Daily encourage you to make responsible decisions in your sexual activities, however you may interpret that.”
The key words there are “however you may interpret that”. Get tested, and know your status. Be honest with your potential partners about the sex you want to have, and make sure you’re both on the same page. Use a condom, talk to your doctor about PrEP, decide that serosorting’s the best policy for you, maintain a monogamous relationship or educate yourselves on terms like undetectable.
Basically, I don’t want to tell you what’s “right” or “wrong”. That’s for you to decide on your own.
– Dewitt
Photo credit: Raw Fuck Club
Check out a clip of Adam Russo getting double-penetrated below:
Watch this scene and other raunchy, bareback content on RAW FUCK CLUB.
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Bareback is bareback is bareback. All of it is unsafe if you don’t use a condom.
What two or more informed, consenting adults choose to do with each other is their business and not open for criticism from me. If you want to engage in sex without a condom, and your partner agrees, so what?
This is NOT an endorsement for “risky” behavior. If you knowingly have sex with someone and you’re infected with an STI, it’s your duty to tell them. If you know and don’t, then you’re scum.
To be perfectly fair, even with a condom, you’re still at risk, albeit a smaller one than without. There are more infections than HIV. COndoms won’t help against a lot of stuff.
Not only are you scum; you’re also a criminal.
I whole heartedly agree. My ex cheated on me a few years ago and he ended up getting herpes from the dude. He started talking to me recently to catch up and now he’s HIV positive. Thing that pisses me off the most is he prefers bareback now and only tells guys that he has HIV but not about the herpes. I still have the screencaps of that conversation. Thank jeebus I’m still clean and I dodged a bullet with his pathetic ass. Idk why HIV is the only thing people mention when they consider barebacking.
I forgot to put that, but yes, you’re right. In most places, it’s a criminal offense (as it should be).
Warts, herpes, syphilis, a whole host of others. Not to downplay HIV, but there are other yucky diseases out there that people seem to forget to mention.
GREAT column, Dewitt!
did i miss something whats this pill ya speaking of? theirs a pill now? totally didnt know bout that at all……? i hve no problem with fellas BB its their life their choice go for it fellas and i find BB porn hot as but my personal choice is to use condoms each to ur own tho
The dialog in this clip is awesome. I’ve always thought that Adam Russo has a little Bruce Willis thing going on.
Get tested, know your status, make informed & educated decisions, notify partners. Full stop.
There is another point to add to the bareback discussion. HIV is a virus that can mutate and adapt. People with HIV with different strains of the virus having unsafe sex increases the chances of newer and possibly drug resistant forms of HIV. If people don’t remember how horrifying that is watch The Normal Heart on HBO. People still get sick and die from HIV/AIDS we need to remember that.
It’s called PrEP, which stands for “Pre Exposure Prophylaxis”. The idea behind it is that you give a low dose of an antiretroviral to someone who is at an increased risk of being infected with HIV so that they have a constant level of the drug in their system, thereby reducing the chance of them contracting the virus. It’s a good idea, though not necessarily implemented everywhere yet
As people mention that an HIV carrier is suppose to disclose their status, and that it’s criminal to do so, I realistically think it Unfair to blame them on infecting their mate. A negative mate should have the responsibility to ‘Not let anyone touch them sexually with a 10 foot pole’ if they know or suspect a mate is positive. Why should the pos person be criminal in that situation. Both have the responsibility to practice as they should, and suffer the consequences. If you’re negative, stop fucking unsafe! Simple.
Typo earlier: it’s criminal Not to do so (disclose positive HIV status).. Again, the Negative person should bare the same responsibility of their actions. It’s Not the positive persons complete fault that a negative person is taking raw cock. Stop fucking unsafe. The courts should throw this case out when a negative tries to blame a positive, yet they yre fucking unsafe!
Facts: Men who have sex with men account for 63% of new HIV infections. Men ages 13-24 account for 30% of new HIV infections among all men who have sex with men. New infections among men who have sex with men ages13-24 increased by 22%, the most significant increase of any age group.
http://kff.org/hivaids/fact-sheet/the-hivaids-epidemic-in-the-united-states/
It’s complicated. I think criminal is the wrong word to use here, and I would point out in
most cases where these laws exists on the books they were written for
individuals that maliciously exposed others to the virus. Of course, the unfortunate consequence of these laws is that they group all persons who are positive, not just the very few that use their status as a genuine physical weapon to inflict harm or practice such extreme negligence that they pose a danger to the wider community.
To make matters worse, sex isn’t like other transactions. It’s not like buying a car, where a reasonable person could and has the responsibility to evaluate the product and make a informed decision in general circumstances, and therefore for legal purpose sign and take on the ownership once it drives off the lot. We don’t have sex is that kind of structured organized way. So it is not as easy to discern when at any given moment the onus passes from the positive partner to the negative one, or if any of them have any civic or legal responsibility to disclose and upon notarized approval to proceed. It’s not even like the cold, where you could tell someone was momentarily highly infectious.
The legal system, as is, just wasn’t designed with these kinds of health issues in mind, but it nevertheless has to contend with them.
Plus, outside of just simply not having penetration, there isn’t much a negative person can do to completely erase all risk, only lower it. So unless we are comfortable with the message being, “unless you sign off on not having penetration until you get a note from your person’s doctor, you absolve your partner of any responsibility to disclosure important health related information to you” we will have to come up with something more equitable.
But I agree, right now the positive person is the one who bears all of the risk here. They are the ones that could conceivably go to jail, if their negative partner never asked and they used a condom, but it was that one out of a thousand moment when it broke they could go to prison. Even though it was the negative partner who might have taken all of the reasonable steps.
At the same time though, you could argue that as a matter of public health a person who is positive just has to bear a greater burden, regardless of how they became positive. The concern for public safety trumps their right to privacy. The number of HIV Americans are so small, depending on the population and history, that it has never risen to that level but there are other infections diseases where the CDC for example just shuts it down.
Sigh.
This is an issue where there are merits on both sides, and I think ultimately with the introduction of PrEP we are heading towards a 14th amendment equal protection issue for the judicial system to sort out.
Sorry, that was really long.
Thank you! HPV People! It causes cancer, genital warts and is believed to be contracted by touch! They are adults and make choices just like we do meaning they have the choice to get out of porn if the job requires bareback. Just like we have the choice to not have sex with someone bareback! Besides shouldn’t we be more concerned with something like our fucked up healthcare system, people getting shot, murders etc… It’s 2014 sex education is everywhere if you are that ignorant and are unaware of the risk you probably are going to die from something else anyway.
Thanks Dewitt for the discussion!
it doesnt matter if they are poz does it… then its totally fine
yeah truvada which if you take it makes you pretty close to 100% safe without condoms
no its not, not in most of the civilised world.
pfft raw sex is best . so over whiny bitches complaining that ppl bb… ive been doing it for yrs and am still negative, and really dont care either way… its not 1992 anymore, if any indication of the lets just say triple plus digits has shown me is that all men are hypocrites, 99 percent of that has all been raw. even the ones that asked me to use a rubber, then they come, i pull it off they ask if i came, i say no ,they say cum in me… always the same..
and bareback is fucking AWESOME… I will never stop
exactly so lose the rubber is my motto 😉
EXACTLY, I have fucked many men i have known were positive bareback i didnt care.. just wanted hot sex.. and im still negative… sometimes i feel like god.. fucking hundreds of poz guys and still being neg.. i shuldve died yrs ago lol
it takes two
That’s dangerously close to blaming the victim…
That wasn’t my point. My point was that condoms aren’t a magical barrier. I actually recommend them.
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