I’ve learned a lot about PrEP too, and the ways it’s become much easier for those with different HIV statuses to have a sexual relationship. I thought I was protecting myself correctly, but I came to realize — through my experience with HIV-positive friends, the role on Looking, and as an ambassador to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation — that I was actually misinformed in a lot of ways about PrEP. After learning the facts, I realized I need to be vocal and help inform those who don’t have the proper information. PrEP is definitely something a lot of gay men don’t have the facts on. I feel like the biggest misconception is people can have unprotected sex if they’re on PrEP. That’s definitely something I didn’t understand. Also, heterosexual people might not know PrEP is available to them. Right now we have the tools to end new infections by 96 percent if we use them. If Hollywood recommits itself to using its influence, then we can start to see a real change with the numbers… I think that’s the exciting thing, when people realize it is possible to end HIV and AIDS. When everyone is getting tested, and people who are positive are receiving the care and medicine they need, and those who are positive are utilizing the tools available to not transmit the virus, we can do this! We’re in a new day and age, and information can reach people a lot quicker this time. We can stop HIV and AIDS once and for all!”
— Daniel Franzese, Looking star and ambassador for the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, in an interview with HuffPo
redcarpet30
“I feel like the biggest misconception is people can have unprotected sex if they’re on PrEP”
Huh? Of course you can have unprotected sex on PrEP. It’s just that there it is not really risk free like some people want to believe.
Realitycheck
Ideally with one party on PrEP an the other undetectable for over 6 months, there is virtually no risk of infection.
As long as there is no direct blood to blood exchange.
Does that mean 100% risk free? NO but almost.
Lets remember that what started all this were studies in Switzerland and
Australia on serum discordant couples, where one partner was positive for
many years and the other never got infected in spite of having sex.
The positive partners were all on medications for years and undetectable.
As suck the level of HIV virus in they sperm was near zero and too low to
infect another.
Of course some american bigoted doctor started to scream, not true, but
additional studies did show it was true.
This is some what similar to the no infection from oral sex,
for years no infections from oral sex had been reported in spite
of a doctor desperate effort to prove it was possible.
Finally one man came forward stating (with out any prove)
he got infected with HIV from oral sex.
Today to clarify, doctors will tell you that only an open bleeding sore in
one mouth would allow for HIV infection.
Basically the possibility is there but we are really talking about 1 in a million
at best.
A little known fact, saliva is the only part of the immune system that can kill the
HIV virus.
Paco
He’s correct that condomless sex with PrEP is not 100% risk free. But a cum dump is going to be a cum dump regardless of the risks, and should be on something to help slow the spread of HIV.
PrEP will not protect from other diseases so should be used in addition with condoms. A fleeting moment of raw pleasure just isn’t worth the risk of a lifetime of disease.
Clark35
@redcarpet30: True. But all the “Truvada whores” seem to think that it’s like pre-AIDS times and that they can suck and fuck whoever they want and won’t get HIV or other STDs. You also have lots of poz guys on meds who should know better but have a death wish and don’t care if they get reinfected with the strain of HIV they have, get infected with a new strain, or infect someone else either poz or neg with a strain of HIV since they think they can bareback and are invincible.
Geeker
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jason smeds
Since when is a celebrity the font of all wisdom on illnesses? Puh-lease….
As for what will get you sick in no time, it’s acting like a cum dumpster. I can guarantee you that somebody’s seed will have something in it that isn’t nice. The laws of physics are merciless….
Clark35
@jason smeds: Is Daniel Franzese a cum dumpster? Or a better question would be, who would actually want to have sex with him?
DistingueTraces
“Physics” causes not-nice things to exist in other people’s semen? Wha…?
Never mind, don’t feed etc etc.
Saint Law
@jason smeds: Four our resident geriatric virgin “a cum dumpster” is anybody with an active sex life.
Tayriffic
@Clark35: Why even say something so rude? Or a better question would be, who would even want to engage in conversation with you after discovering you’re such an asshole?
OhHellNo
It will be so awesome once everyone gets on PrEP (catchy!). Then they won’t have to live long enough to die of HIV/AIDS, because Truvada will destroy their organs long before then. But at least Truvada’s free. Oh, wait, what?