Why do gay guys use condoms

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Thanks for your scrutinize. You are right – using condoms correctly, helps prohibit unplanned pregnancies with vaginal sex (vaginal-penile sex). Using condoms also helps stop sexually transmitted infections, such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Therefore, health tend providers recommend using condoms with oral, vaginal, and anal sex. The great news is that condoms come in different varieties including shapes, flavors, lubrication, and texture. We recommend trying alternative condoms and seeing which ones you like the most.

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Having unprotected penetrative sex is the most likely way to pass on a sexually transmitted infection (STI).

Using a condom helps protect against HIV and lowers the risk of getting many other STIs.

If you’re a man having sex with men (MSM), without condoms and with someone new, you should own an STI and HIV try every 3 months, otherwise, it should be at least once a year. This can be done at a sexual health clinic (SHC) or genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic. This is crucial, as some STIs do not cause any symptoms.

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis A is a liver infection that's spread by a virus in poo.

Hepatitis A is uncommon in the UK but you can receive it through sex, including oral-anal sex ("rimming") and giving oral sex after anal sex. MSM with multiple partners are particularly at risk. You can also get it through contaminated nourishment and drink.

Symptoms of hepatitis A can appear up to 8 weeks after sex and include tiredness and feeling sick (nausea).

Hepatitis A is not usually life-threatening and most people make a occupied recovery within a couple of months.

MSM can avoid getting hepatitis A by:

• washing hands after se

  "What do you call a gay guy who got infected in the '80s? A victim. What do you call a gay guy who gets infected in 2010? An idiot." Well put by a reader to my gay dating column, but way off the mark.

  According to the CDC, modern HIV infection rates among gay men keep climbing and this year is no exception. I comprehend the level of fury a lot of homosexual guys have about this sobering trend. I've just had two 20-something friends turn HIV positive. Some in our inner circle went ballistic with ire. "Why didn't they exploit condoms?" seethed one ally. "It's not like they don't how to preserve themselves -- they CHOSE not to. And if that's the case don't they deserve what they got?"

  Well, no. True, if people were any more stupid about safe sex we'd have to moisture them twice a week, but the anger has no logic. When emergency workers pull dead or injured people out of car crashes do they blame the victims for not wearing seat belts? Do they refuse to help them?

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  When I talk to my adolescent patients about sex and sexuality, there’s a line I usually enclose in my patter. I tell them that they’re in my office for medical advice, not moral guidance. The questions I inquire and information I give are for the purposes of keeping them protected and healthy, not so I can pass judgment on their character.

  Ironically, it’s when I include patients who are gay men love me that I sometimes need to keep any moralizing in check.

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