But even so, no one knows if this sudden surge in AIDS deaths will affect the resurgence of unsafe sex seen in recent years in groups at high risk for the virus, especially gay men. He knows several heterosexual partners of infected women with the same attitude, he said. The thinking is the drugs work, HIV is no longer a death sentence, you have long periods of good health. There is a very lax attitude now. And it's condom fatigue.
People are just sick of using condoms.
Davey admitted many gay men are operating under false assumptions about the dangers of HIV today. That's totally false. We've spent a long time fighting that rumor. Blamed for speeding the spread of AIDS throughout the '80s, most were shut down after the epidemic hit. But two new bathhouses have opened in Phoenix in the last few years, and a third is due to open soon.