Xref: utzoo sci.med.aids:2462 soc.motss:40113 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucla-cs!news From: SECBH%CUNYVM.BITNET@oac.ucla.edu Newsgroups: sci.med.aids,soc.motss Subject: Unsafer Sex? Message-ID: <1990Nov29.192745.6713@cs.ucla.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 18:30:29 GMT Sender: news@cs.ucla.edu (Mr. News) Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center Lines: 32 Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu Note: non-commercial reproduction. Nntp-Posting-Host: squid.cs.ucla.edu Archive-Number: 2766 Earlier this week I attended a meeting at which there was a person who gives presentations on safer sex to gay men. In these workshops anonymous questionnaires are filled out asking about the participants sexual activities. According to what this person said, for many months more than 20% of the gay men 25 and under had reported having unprotected anal sex one or more times in the prior six months. However, recently the responses from same age group at these workshops had indicated more than 50% had had unprotected anal intercourse one or more times in the previous six months! I have heard that a similar pattern is emerging in San Francisco. This group of people would have been fifteen or below at the start of the epidemic, and in many cases might not have been part of the gay community for a large part of the past decade. If this is the case, I can understand how not having experienced personal losses as a result of AIDS may account for what I see as a considerable lack of interest on the part of the 25 and younger groupin doing direct PWA-related work. However, I cannot imagine that now being active in the gay community this group would be unaware of safer sex educational efforts. I would be interested in hearing whether other people who are active in AIDS-related work have notice, or heard of the this trend. And, especially I would be interested in comments by gay men in their early 20s as to what the AIDS epidemic means in their lives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Carroll "I knew there was a void in my life that was missing." Charlene Tilton of _Dallas_