It is strange that so many of the people most in need of AIDS education are AIDS educators. That this is so says something about the propagandistic nature of AIDS education, so imbued with the cult of venery that its main purpose is to explain to the unenlightened what they can get away with rather than what they shouldn't even try. One wouldn't knowingly take an LSAT preperation course from someone who flunked pre-law. Why do so many people receive education about AIDS from people who contracted HIV from risky sex practices? CNN highlights the love story of Gwenn Barringer, an AIDS educator, and Shawn Decker, an HIV+ man who has been married to the HIV- Barringer for five years. "It's ironic," Decker notes. "I thought HIV would prevent me from finding love." Instead, HIV found him a wife. Whoever said "love conquers all" wasn't kidding. One is reminded of "Carlos," the unforgettable volunteer for the Gay Men's Health Crisis profiled in Rolling Stone who, despite his work telling other gay men to use condoms, sought unsafe sex encounters with HIV+ men. Carlos, known within such circles as a "bug chaser," described the hypothetical moment when he would contract HIV from a "gift giver" as "the most erotic thing I can imagine." He explained, "I think it turns the other guy on to know that I'm negative and that they're bringing me into the brotherhood. That gets me off, too."

That's sad. I read an article that 3% of Washington, DC is HIV positive, and that's only the number of documented cases, not the total number.

Sad stuff.

‘described the hypothetical moment when he would contract HIV from a "gift giver" as "the most erotic thing I can imagine." ‘

I think most of the discussion on this can begin and end right there.