Bareback Culture, HIV, and Our Gay Future
Category: QUEER VOICES
If you make an informed decision to practice barebacking, then so be it. I can't say I will never do the same. However, short-term pleasure, a sense of belonging, and the excitement of abandoning homonormative sociosexual practices cannot be divorced from either a willful rejection of long-term health or a romanticized concept of what HIV infection leads to.
By J Nelson Aviance, ContributorOpera singer, author and PhD student in musicology/cultural st..., 2014-09-04