I’m not sex shaming anyone. I’m relaying to you that PrEP is an amazing breakthrough that helps to protect people that are at a higher risk of infection because they have sex with other men, but the developers, the CDC, many public health authorities indicate it is up to 99% effective for HIV through sex and only up to 74% effective for HIV introduced IV. As you’ve pointed out, such high protection requires diligence. You need to regularly have money to purchase the drug, take it daily, and be in a country that even has access to it. If you do that and protect yourself, fantastic. Other folks might not and having any misconceptions about what PrEP is and is not can encourage people to do riskier things that they should not. If there wasn’t still so much uncertainty about its efficacy, they’d be handing out PrEP to the gays like g*damn candy.
You’ve built your whole issue on supposedly fighting misinformation when, in fact, you, YOU are spreading lies by asserting that taking PrEP is a 100% fail-safe HIV prevention tool despite again the scientific community saying it is not 100%. That’s like saying you can’t die from COVID because you’ve been vaccinated. Just wrong man. Just like condoms, any protection is better than none, but until there is a scientifically researched and proven HIV vaccine that has been shown to prevent infection and/or a total cure to the virus, society should be encouraging safe practices regardless of PrEP status. Just because you feel safe and haven’t been infected doesn’t mean everyone else or anyone else can’t be infected.
In either case, I am glad there haven’t been any reported infections officially. Doesn’t mean they haven’t or won’t happen. There are plenty of rumors around adult film actors getting infected through their work and retiring as a result, even in studios that supposedly test frequently. Lol do creators really want to suddenly post everywhere that they’re HIV+ from their sex work?
Finally, I live on edge because I’ve seen lots of guys my age (teens through 30s) straight/curious/gay/bi that willingly and knowingly continue to have sex when they clearly actively have an STI. A lot of men, and even guys who are HIV+, do not care about spreading things to others. I just don’t genuinely believe that a vast majority of guys take PrEP. So I take precautions all the time and regardless of how many people someone is having sex with, they should too.