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This title is going to raise a few eyebrows, but keep reading and you might be surprised. In an abstract presented at the Fifteenth Conference of the British HIV Association in Liverpool, Fox and colleagues investigated the reasons behind irregular condom use in long term serodiscordant couples (where one partner is HIV-positive, the other HIV-negative).
Thirty of the 38 couples interviewed were gay men and amongst the reasons they gave for not using condoms were a failure to understand the mechanisms of HIV transmission, emotional reasons (intimacy and trust being important …

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It has all the elements of your usual sex worker story, set in the busy alleyway of the red light district of an exotic town, a low-rise stage on which naked, sexy and sweaty bodies gyrate in the night on the sound of thumping music, a crowd of patrons eyeing at the right number, a dancer who believes that “the sex industry is like any other service-oriented profession”; but this time, the dancers are male and the patrons are female.
In a rare report for The Bangkok Post, Yvonne Bohwongprasert unveils …

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After the gay version it was only fair to also show the straight one!

Rating 3.00 out of 5

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A few weeks ago, Steve Weinstein, editor-In-Chief of the Boston-based Edge, commented on “Disco dosing”, the alleged Gay-men practice of taking a cocktail made of a psychostimulant, methamphetamine, an antiretroviral, Tenofovir, and a drug used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension Viagra, better known for its ability to correct erectile dysfunction, before going clubbing. Such mix even has a name: “MTV”.
Disco dosing has been around for years. It was reported that Gay men were taking the antiretroviral Tenofovir before going on the prowl for the weekend and enjoy unprotected sex, hopping …

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