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Originally Posted by jigg
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well you go ahead and take some tenofovir and azt for a couple years, and come back and tell us how you doin' 
I know someone who started taking the drugs when he was 19 he's 24 now and already looks past 30 years old.
The drugs are toxic, very much so.
Why do you think so many poz gay guys in some of the porn productions look so fucked up in the face and body? It's not because the drugs are gentle it's because the drugs are destroying their bodies. |
I've also seen plenty of folks on the news who are poz and look great.
You can't take some people and compare them to others. Some of those people you are talking about might have other problems...meth, IV drugs, etc.
But for healthy people, they don't have that kind of problem. Hell, look at the most famous of all: Magic Johnson. He looks great.
I also saw a special on CNN a couple of years back about "living with HIV", and they had an entire group of guys on there who changed their lives after contracting it. They eat healthy, go to the gym every day...and look like a bunch of damn bodybuilders.
My whole point is...this is breakthrough stuff here that nobody in our industry is even talking about.
This pill was just given the green light for HIV preventative in the last year.
I'm no doctor (and neither are you)...but I do think that it's something that the industry should be thinking about. Especially the girls.
The girls are the ones who have to fuck these guys...and it's always a guy bringing it in.
If I were a girl in this industry and were fucking the talent pool in "Porn Valley", I believe I would have a talk with my doctor and find out if this is something that would work for me.
What do people have to lose by asking their doctors?
That's all I'm saying. I have no idea how "toxic" it is. And I'm sure it varies from individual to individual.
But my guess is that the performers in this industry don't even know this exists. I know I didn't until all this recent HIV stuff happened and I started researching.
I think that the talent should be told about this medication, and then go talk to their doctor about it.
If the doctor says "no", then at least they had a chance to pursue it as an option and realize it wasn't for them.
But we don't know what the doctor would say.
Apparently it IS being prescribed to thousands of gay men who engage in risky sexual behavior.
If doctors around the country are doing that for the gay community...why not for the adult industry too?
The warnings and side effects for this medication don't look to be any more "severe" than the arthritis medicines they advertise on television:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhe...s#side_effects