The recent Ca. HIV event hits METAFILTER - claims of 16 cases?

[Cleo]

As far as I know you can't get AIDS by eating pussy but I guess there are other SDTs that can be transmitted that way.

Why would seeing a guy using a condom be a turn off?

[Bill]

Because condoms suck in reality, for both partners?

Because I can imagine the girl wincing as the dry condom squeaks?

Because porn is reproduction fantasy writ large?

Since I'm not terribly promiscuous, and am older, so that when I was fucking around it was pre-latex, all my experiences with condoms were universally bad.

And they broke a lot during any serious fucking - thus, no real protection either.

So, pretty much no positive associations with condoms, pretty much all negative.

Condoms = regrettable sickly dry painful unpleasant bad sex with someone not worth fucking in the first place.

Which is arguably what porn is all about in reality, I suppose.

[Bill]

NYT has it as a feed article - my bet is that this will end up being a hot news item, has all the qualities the news corps love, get all the rubes slavering...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009...-HIV.html?_r=1

[Preacher]

Her last test had expired on 5/29/09 and she chose to work regardless, without the result of the pending test. AIM does not give people permission to work, or not to work; it is our sole duty to provide accurate and early detection testing in a timely manner. Our staff does not "guess" or give a verbal commitment unless the negative result is in front of them. The young woman's test came back on Saturday, 6/6/09. By this time, she had worked in the adult industry, sans current test.

That's the problem, the producers treat the test as a formality because they see so many negative results, IMO. She should have never been allowed to film without a current test, this will happen again.

[domweb]

Originally Posted by Cleo

As far as I know you can't get AIDS by eating pussy but I guess there are other SDTs that can be transmitted that way.

Ummmmm....if your partner is HIV positive and you happen to have an unnoticed cut in your mouth you are at minor risk for contracting HIV while eating pussy. Especially if you really go to town on that pussy, opening up minor tears in the delicate vaginal wall.

Saliva just inhibits the virus. However eating pussy does tend to be one of the lower risk sexual acts when it comes to contracting HIV.

Just remember to use condoms with sex toys, girls! Plenty of lesbians have gotten an unpleasant surprise after sharing a dildo or vibrator with a new friend. (Thats why some girls prefer the hard glass toys...dishwasher safe!)

[ArtWilliams]

As a person who used condoms as birth control during his early days of marriage, I can tell you that it doesn't feel as nice as no condom at all. Since surfers mentally project themselves into the scene they are watching, I can only assume they find it less attractive when the talent practice safe sex.

I also think that for a small percentage of surfers there is an element of excitement seeing someone not use a rubber -- like someone watching the Flying Wallendas or other high wire artist. Will they fall? People like to watch train wrecks too. Macabre and dark perhaps but why do guy's like to watch women deep throated until they vomit?

IMHO, it is a public health issue and the performers should be made to wear condoms. I guess I am not the libertarian that I once was.

Originally Posted by Cleo

As far as I know you can't get AIDS by eating pussy but I guess there are other SDTs that can be transmitted that way.

Why would seeing a guy using a condom be a turn off?