THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT OF AN ARTICLE APPEARING IN THE NEW YORK POST OF JAN 2, 2014, AUTHORED BY CARL CAMPANILE

The Centers for Disease Control report that men who engage in sex both with men and women can acquire HIV from a male partner and then transmit the virus to female partners.Women who had unprotected sex with bisexual partners accounted for most of the new female HIV cases in the city last year,  according to a new Health Department study.

The NYC Health Department study found that 1.578 people died from AIDS in the city in 2012, down from 1,699 in 2011. Men still account for 8 in 10 of the new cases in the city, mostly transmitted through unprotected gay sex. In total, there were 3,341 new cases of HIV and 1,889 full blown AIDS cases, down from 3,404 HIV and 2,208 AIDS in 2011. There are 114,926 people living here with HIV/AIDS.


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If people would just use condoms this wouldn't be happening.  Lots of those men probably weren't openly bisexual but rather men who identify as straight but secretly have sex with men on the side.  They of course often don't use condoms because that would require admitting to themselves what they are doing.  Then of course they are not using condoms with their girlfriends because they are pretending to be monogamous while secretly having unprotected sex on the side.

I have always used condoms with everyone, including my long-term boyfriends, and plan to keep it that way.  Not worth risking my health on someone else's honesty.  I can't think of anyone who I would trust with my life in that way.  Gay, straight, bisexual, pansexual, whatever.  But then again when I came of age, I learned to use condoms and sexualized them from a young age.  I think they're hot.  It makes me feel safe.  I guess I'm lucky in that regard, lucky to have learned that young and always played that way.  It has kept me safe despite my promiscuous nature.  

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Guess he is just seeing what he wants to see and hearing what he wants to hear.  Some people have to do anything they can to justify their actions.  He probably thinks that by avoiding women who sleep with "bisexual" men he is keeping himself safe.

The key word in the headline is actually that these women are having UNPROTECTED sex with these "bisexual" men.  But all SEXEGENARIAN can process is that they got HIV from bisexual men.  That way he and everyone else who wants can keep telling themselves that barebacking with straight women is totally safe, as long as you have your HIV test from 10 days ago that says you are negative, right?

PS. Those tests only test for HIV antibodies, not the virus itself.  It takes up to six months after contracting HIV for your antibodies to reach a detectable level.  I know of instances where both partners decided to be monogamous, got tested after being together for three months, both tested negative, started to forgo the condoms, and then suddenly both tested positive another six months later.  Why?  Because the HIV test can only test for your antibodies which can take up to six months to reach a detectable level.  So anyone who contracted HIV anytime in the last 5 months can still test negative for the virus and spread it to others, because HIV TESTS ARE NOT AN ACCURATE REFLECTION OF YOUR CURRENT HIV STATUS, only what your HIV status was as of SIX MONTHS AGO.

The truth is inconvenient.

Okay sorry I will get down off this soapbox now.