".....acknowledging that all consensual sexual activities are fundamentally healthy" ?! I'm 73 and have been around the block a few times. You can call me a prude, but seriously, are all consensual sexual activities between adults emotionally and spiritually healthy? What about quality of the relationship between partners? It seems they are implicitly encouraging lots of casual sex with multiple partners as added motivation to get on PrEP for life.
yeah, nothing is ever "consensual" between 2 individuals. Best can be is each engaging in a process of moment by moment modification... involving wants/desires/imposition/acquiesence/enticement/discord...the sum total most often being 2 individuals out of synch with self and each other, and letting 'success' be sense of pleasure/gratification as the measuring stick?
I just had image of a bar, and a table with a lone individual with an opened bottle of wine, and a full glass beside. Whilst the owner is looking the other way, the stranger slips the inebriating powder into the glass. There is the 'normal' (even if questionably healthy) behaviour/outlook to be unawarely infused with material blatantly out to harm. Placing of an extended 'normal' under the radar so to speak.
Having studied HIV/AIDS for 3 years and, based upon that research, written one thriller, A Dive Into Darkness and begun a second, The Iceberg (a fictionalised account of the CDC's response to the AIDS epidemic 1981-84), the issue goes all the way back to May/June 1981. For many reasons but mainly the preservation of the CDC in the face of the Reagan govt onslaught against public services apart from the military, the CDC decided to follow the 'single disease, single (new) cause' paradigm. The reality was much simpler and quicker to deal with. The last thing the CDC wanted or needed, if it was to survive, was something simple and quick.
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".....acknowledging that all consensual sexual activities are fundamentally healthy" ?! I'm 73 and have been around the block a few times. You can call me a prude, but seriously, are all consensual sexual activities between adults emotionally and spiritually healthy? What about quality of the relationship between partners? It seems they are implicitly encouraging lots of casual sex with multiple partners as added motivation to get on PrEP for life.
Let’s not even touch the fact that the concept of “consensual” is kind of fluid, in real life.
yeah, nothing is ever "consensual" between 2 individuals. Best can be is each engaging in a process of moment by moment modification... involving wants/desires/imposition/acquiesence/enticement/discord...the sum total most often being 2 individuals out of synch with self and each other, and letting 'success' be sense of pleasure/gratification as the measuring stick?
I just had image of a bar, and a table with a lone individual with an opened bottle of wine, and a full glass beside. Whilst the owner is looking the other way, the stranger slips the inebriating powder into the glass. There is the 'normal' (even if questionably healthy) behaviour/outlook to be unawarely infused with material blatantly out to harm. Placing of an extended 'normal' under the radar so to speak.
Hi.
Having studied HIV/AIDS for 3 years and, based upon that research, written one thriller, A Dive Into Darkness and begun a second, The Iceberg (a fictionalised account of the CDC's response to the AIDS epidemic 1981-84), the issue goes all the way back to May/June 1981. For many reasons but mainly the preservation of the CDC in the face of the Reagan govt onslaught against public services apart from the military, the CDC decided to follow the 'single disease, single (new) cause' paradigm. The reality was much simpler and quicker to deal with. The last thing the CDC wanted or needed, if it was to survive, was something simple and quick.