Guardian: ‘Is sex worth the risk?’ Monkeypox just the latest virus to threaten gay intimacy. Decades after the Aids pandemic began, game-changing drugs restored some peace of mind. Now monkeypox puts that progress at risk. I realized how angry I was that a viral pandemic was dictating my sex life.

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[–]IridescentAnaconda 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I realized in that moment how lucky I am to have a gay doctor’s office to take my body and my feelings seriously. And I realized how angry I was that, for the third time in my life, a viral pandemic was dictating my sex life, shaping my professional life, messing with my head, and keeping me from experiencing intimacy.

Such bullshit. I'm a gay man and I have no fear, no obstacle to "experiencing intimacy". Want to know why? Because I "experience intimacy" with my same-sex spouse in the context of a long-term monogamous relationship. In fact, the quality of the intimacy that I experience far exceeds anything I experienced when I was single and free to have sex with whomever. You know what really keeps gay men from experiencing intimacy? Fucking around constantly.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Good for you, but most homos want to have sex with dozens of men a week.

This whole epidemic could be halted if you people could stop having sex with strangers for 15 days. But you can't. So this disease will likely spread to the rest of us. Yay.

[–]IridescentAnaconda 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's maybe 50-50, you just don't hear about those of us who stay at home. But I'll grant you that the other 50% are degenerate.

I don't think it will spread outside select populations, because it's functionally sexually transmitted. But the other 50% don't want to admit that because it would mean facing their degeneracy.