Gone is a generation of men that suffered and died during the pre-cocktail days. Gone is the fear of living a life on borrowed time. Gone is the fear of death. Now, young gay men and many not so young ones prefer to take their chances, because they cannot imagine, can't face spending the rest of their lives only having sex using a condom. AIDS has become like smoking.
People know it s dangerous to smoke, but they choose to do it anyway.
The difference with unsafe sex and AIDS is that where second hand smoke can be curtailed and controlled, the second hand effects from unsafe sex is that people can be infected with a deadly disease often without their knowing. But as easy as it is to put down that cigarette butt, and after all the safe sex dialogue with proof that condoms are effective when it comes to preventing HIV infection, you'd think people would cover their asses when having anal sex. But humans continually to choose dangerous thrills over safety. Next we have the crying inner urgency for intimacy. That human desire to truly connect to someone in a deep physical, emotional and spiritual way.