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Your odds of dying from cancer are approximately 1 in 2.
Think about that for a moment.
My odds of contracting HIV through heterosexual contact are almost 0 (though not quite, like all things in life, sex, eating a hamburger, wind surfing, etc. carries risk).
The US gov't pours 23 billion a year into AIDS related issues. It pours only 5 billion into cancer research. Again, not saying not to protect yourself, however, the hysteria around AIDS is way out of proportion. Statistically speaking, it's hard to explain.
AIDS Funding:
http://www.kaiserfamilyfoundation.or...ad/7029-03.pdf
Cancer Funding:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0020918-5.html
The Hassle Free Clinic is screening its users to avoid unecessary over-testing. You might think that by getting tested every time you want to have sex with someone new makes perfect sense to you, and you are being responsible, however, the fact is is that if you are engaging in low risk sexual activity, you are wasting valuable resources and you are ironically being irresponsible. At the Hassle Free, they know this. You call to make an appointment, they ask you on the PHONE -how long since your last unprotected intercourse and how long since your last test?
If it's been less than 3 months since the last time you went in bare back, they tell you to wait. If you are a straight male and only engaging in heterosexual contact, and you have had a test in the last 2 years, they tell you to wait because quite simply they KNOW that as a hetero male, you don't have HIV. They have more urgent demands to attend to other than giving you your next bare back action card for that new little girl you've been trying to get under the covers with.