This is mostly because the acts and diseases you mentioned are equally capable of being present in heterosexual partners as homosexual, ... The reason AIDS crossed over into the Heterosexual community is because the original purveyors of the disease gave blood, used the same needles, had sex with bi-sexuals, etc. Of course, they didn't know at the time that they were doing this because the disease can take up to eleven years to incubate. BUT ...
After they found out what the source of the disease was, they still refused to take matters in hand. They still kept the bathhouses open for three years before the city of San Francisco shut them down. They have now reopened.
In the bathhouses, one could go to a "gloryhole" where a strange man on the other side of the partion would fellate the man on the other side anonymously; or he could present his penis through the hole for similar treatment. There were also "gloryholes" for one to back up to as well.
They had "barebacking" parties where part of the thrill was the possibility of contracting the disease.
From:
http://www.managingdesire.org/scarcebtb.html
Back to Barebacking
-- Michael Scarce
Reprinted with permission from the NY Blade, August 21, 1998
Whereas some gay men have continued to engage in unprotected anal sex since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, only lately has there emerged a heightened eroticization, premeditation, and form of structured organizing devoted to the practice of unsafe sex. An abundance of Internet web sites, online chatrooms, e-mail listservs, personal ads, private parties, jargon and slang terminology, and even amateur and professional videos dedicated solely to barebacking have been created in the past two years. A few of these venues extol the pleasures of intentional infection with HIV as well as the open exchange of bodily fluids. Taking place against the current backdrop of sex controversies permeating gay male communities, barebacking has become a lightning rod of political contention in the United States.
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It should come as no surprise that a cultural phenomenon of conscious and sometimes defiant resistance to safer sex has emerged among some gay men, both HIV-negative and -positive. Some barebackers discuss AIDS prevention workers as "latex-obsessed" and "condom Nazis." Perhaps most interesting is a cross-cultural comparison. In countries such as Australia where harm reduction and negotiated safety were instituted early in the epidemic, it seems that no culture of barebacking has emerged in the sense that gay men have not created social movements based on their unprotected sex.
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Gay men bareback for a multitude of reasons, including increased physical sensation, a sense of greater connectedness or intimacy with their sex partner, excitement in transgressing the paternal proscriptions of many AIDS prevention campaigns, sharing semen as a symbolic act of bonding, and more.
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Whether we like it or not, barebackers have organized around their sex.
(Nightfall)and I for one certainly fail to see how a gay waiter possibly carrying an STD has to do with this thread, seeing as how a straight waiter can do the same as easily.
Hepatitis A is not an STD. I know SDSs are not spread through casual contact, mosquitoes, or dirty toilet seats. However, Hepatitis A is spread through the Homosexual community by their behavior.
Felating a penis that has just finished anal intercourse is not exactly sanitary. Neither is analingus. Both have the potential to spread Hepatitis A.
Once one has Hepatitis A, however, it is easy to spread the disease through casual contact from someone who has not washed their hands after visiting the toilet. That comntact could come through shaking hands or having one's food handled by an infected person.
Due to their sexual activities, the incidence Hepatitis A is far greater in the Homosexual community than in the general community at large.
