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Old 12-11-2013, 05:30 AM  
jigg
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Originally Posted by Robbie View Post
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

lol
Of course it's prescribed to thousands of gay men who engage in risky behavior.
They target the people who refuse to accept responsibility of their own actions. Why stop bending over for a dick sticking out of a glory hole, and snorting carcinogenic poppers, when you can get HIV meds?!

Ads for HIV meds are all over the gay rags, which practically survive thanks to HIV med ads.

$14,000/yr is pretty lucrative for pharma companies

Honestly, as a gay guy I think the CNN report is just bullshit. I would guess, from experience, that very few gay guys who become HIV positibe change their behavior. The ones I know who sleep around a lot, go without rubbers and just shrug thinking HIV meds would save them. Same thing online - guys on Grindr etc. want to fuck without rubbers all over.

Anyway. I have my views on this stuff. If you do decide to go on PrEp I hope you'd keep us updated on how it goes. I would be curious to see what happens.

Personally, the more I read about HIV, and the drugs, and tests that come with disclaimers the more I know I would never put this garbage in my body, but then I'm stubborn like that
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