From Aidsmap via Carnal Nation New research in the online journal AIDS shows that more than 50% of HIV transmissions among gay men are from main (as compared to casual) sexual partners and 46% of infections were from partners who thought that they were HIV-negative. That’s pretty scary- lots of people out there are telling […]

Four different articles on related topics came across my inbox today. First, according to MSNBC.com, 3% of Washington DC residents are living with HIV or AIDS. As if that weren’t appalling enough, “almost 1 in 10 residents between ages 40 and 49 are living with HIV, and black men had the highest infection rate at […]

The interwebs is buzzing with the news. According to an article published in Nature today, glycerol monolaurate or GML (a common ingredient in cosmetics and medications, as well as a component of breast milk) seems to stop HIV cold. Before you get too excited, the experiment looked at monkeys and SIV (the monkey equivalent of […]

From 3News in New Zealand Until now, sex educators and researchers have been assuming that in order to transmit HIV, there needed to be some sort of break in the skin. That made a lot of sense given that HIV is a blood-borne disease and that it can be transmitted through blood contact. There’s now […]

In the articles and blogs that I’ve read about porn, every so often, someone talks about the “cum shot“. For the most part, I see people talking about it as objectification of women, a way to humiliate the recipient (generally, this is an argument about humiliation of women since gay porn is consistently left out […]