PrEP is Not a Reason to Bareback
Life isn’t a porno guys
I’m beginning to get to the point that I can’t even meet my friends for lunch without wanting to pull my hair out with stress.
I listen to their stories and I’m horrified about what they got up to over the weekend.
I don’t mind the sex, I love hearing about good sex. I mean that the sex was unprotected!
I find it completely unbelievable how many people out there are having unprotected sex in this day and age and justify it with PrEP.
Warning — the rest of this article isn’t for people who are made squeamish by adult conversation. You’ve been warned.
What is PrEP?
For the many people who don’t know, PrEP is short for pre-exposure prophylaxis. It’s an FDA approved medication taken by HIV negative people who wish to prevent becoming HIV positive.
An advancement of science this revolutionary is nothing short of a miracle, and I think I speak for the world in thanking the geniuses that created this incredible breakthrough.
In saying that, I’m speaking now to the many people out there leaning on this breakthrough of science like it’s a one-stop STI blocker -
PrEP exists to protect you from ONE sexually transmitted infection. There are MANY OTHERS that are being hosted by MANY of the people you interact with in an irresponsible way.
Please wear a condom.
If you’re offended by my frank tone, I do apologise. I just become frustrated when those I love are stricken with a completely preventable illness.
Condom anyone?
If you have friends that are irritating you with their irresponsibility, this is the article to show them.
Shall we talk about the most common infection?
Chlamydia
This is a charming infection that has been made famous by the burning sensation it causes.
Chlamydia is a swarm of bacteria that invades your body during unprotected sex and (if you’re a man) infects the epididymis. If you’re a woman it could be living in several parts of your vagina.
The epididymis is a very thin tube that’s wrapped up behind each testicle. Basically it feels like your balls are on fire.
I once watch a friend of mine silently deal with the ever growing pain until, while walking on the street one day, he clutched his balls and threw up on the pavement. Apparently the pain came and went in waves.
Chlamydia forever?
If there’s a piece of information that desperately needs to be taught in schools and shouted from the rooftops, it would be
Sexually transmitted infections are becoming resistant to antibiotics!
Are people not paying attention? We’ve been feeding antibiotics to livestock for years.
We do it because farms want to cram as many animals into the smallest enclosures possible.
The animals live in horrible conditions and would die if antibiotics weren’t killing the infections they keep getting.
The animals ingest the antibiotics and pass it in their stool. The stool infects the soil and the water, then is eventually passed onto vegetables.
So whether you’re a vegetarian or eat meat for every meal, you’re not safe unless you’re eating exclusively from your own garden.
What happens when we ingest these antibiotics?
We slowly become immune to their effects, because the bacteria living inside us get use to them.
Those bacteria then pass their immunity onto other bacteria and the immunity only worstens. (Read more about it in this report by the World Health Organisation.
Once a strain of chlamydia catches this resistance, anyone who becomes infected with the strain will not be able to treat it with antibiotics.
That literally means you could be stuck with burning testicles/vagina (a pain so bad I watched my friend vomit in public) for the rest of your life.
Why did my friend have it? Because he doesn’t like the way condoms feel.
I say *did because luckily his strain was treatable. But that doesn’t mean the next strain will be.
He also thought that being uncut kept him safer.
Your foreskin is not a freaking battle helmet
Your foreskin does not protect you from STI’s, in fact you’re actually more vulnerable.
Foreskins are littered with lots of very very tiny cuts. This is because foreskins are prone to tearing constantly whenever you pull it up, masturbate, play vigorous sports, or engage in any number of other rigorous activities.
This teeny tiny cuts act as tiny entrances that bacteria can use to enter the bloodstream.
But I’m a bottom, a disease isn’t going to enter my foreskin
I’m sorry Mr. Bottom, but diseases find it very easy to enter your bloodstream through any number of sensitive tissues inside of your rectal cavity.
Not to mention that the stress of bottoming very predictably causes tiny injuries on the inside of your anus, even if you can’t see any evidence of them from the outside. Through these injuries a disease will have no trouble finding an entrance.
Also, did I not mention that you can have chlamydia of the anus? The symptoms may not occur until weeks after sex, so you may not know who gave it to you. You can expect possible abdominal cramps, nausea, pain, discharge and bleeding.
Is chlamydia the only one that can become resistant to antibiotics?
Nope, gonorrhoea and syphilis have presented cases of antibiotic resistance, and many more will follow.
Antibiotic resistance is worsening so fast that a day is coming when we won’t be able to rely on them at all.
We’re getting so desperate that we’ve begun scientific research on bacteriophages.
Bacteriophages are organisms that are even smaller than bacteria. They’re bacteria killing machines that kill up to half of the world’s total population of bacteria every single day.
Scientists are trying weaponise bacteriophages as a defence against bacteria for the inevitable day that antibiotics are useless.
But the day of bacteriophages being processed into a reliable medicine and injected into your dick is far faaar off.
So in the meantime
Wear a bloody condom, it’s serious. STI’s are far more common than they were even 5 years ago because no one is wearing them.
STI’s aren’t just painful, they also have many other risks including impacting fertility and increasing the risk of some cancers.
Look after yourself and take sex seriously. Have fun responsibly. You owe it to yourself, and you owe it to the person who’s stretched out on your bed with a (consensual) gag in their mouth.
