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Your list is great! The easier list to make would be for the reasons why you should wear a condom, there is absolutely no reason for gay men to wear them.

Only two comments/suggestions: Item 6 "Pre-cum is a natural lubricant that gets blocked with condoms." - The main point is true, Pre-cum gets blocked by condoms. However I disagree that pre-cum is all that most people need for (comfortable) penetration. Pre-cum is nice 'n slick, delicious, etc, but some people produce only a small amount and others drip gobs of it. My experience has been that you usually need something in addition (spit, 'proper' store-bought lube, etc) to help it out. I would change it to a bullet point about condoms requiring more and different lube. Maybe re-work part of your wording in point 8 into this revised bullet point. Something like: "6. Condoms require more lube than going bare - Condoms require lots of lube, otherwise the increased friction will damage your hole and make you hurt. Sex shouldn't hurt.. Condom-compatible lubes can also be worse for the environment than regular lubes." Item 4 "The hottest porn stars don't use them.". I agree with what you're trying to go for in general, but I'd re-word it to "The hottest porn is always bareback" and re-work the rest of the line accordingly. I've seen a lot of really hot young guys in porn that use condoms. The condom is an instant boner-killer, but the guys themselves are undeniably hot. I'd also move it down towards the bottom of the list, since this is more of a subjective point, and most of the rest are more fact-based. I'd list the fact-based points first. For that reason, I'd swap points 7 and 8, and move this one to where 9 currently is (or at least after 7). In general, I like it. It's well thought out, and I commend you for bringing this point of view into your gay youth group. Gay youth, just like gay adults, need to look at all sides of an issue and make their own informed decisions, rather than just blindly do what other people in their life tell them. In school all they hear is either "always use condoms" or "don't have sex at all". You're giving them another viewpoint, and backing it up with logical reasoning. Good job! Btw in your header you mentioned that you're out to them as 'pro-HIV'. I'd stress to your group that they can be anti-condom but still not be pro-HIV. All of the points in your list are valid regardless of whether they are on PReP, or want to be come chasers like yourself. The list is all about reasons not to use condoms. Being an active chaser is an entirely different matter (though if they want to go down that road too, that's very cool :) )

We all owe our lives to bareback sex.

Eric, thanks for this and other updates. I've been following you for a while, since before I decided to de-cloak last week and sign up (again). Not to dis anyone else (many other cool guys here too), but I think you're one of the hottest of the latest crop of chasers, and I'm very impressed by the way that you've came out publicly to your social media followers and to your family as a barebacker. Kudos to you for that! I wouldn't worry about coming out publicly as a chaser though. That's on a need-to-know basis. The ones that are into that will likely seek you out once they know you bareback, and coming out publicly as a chaser would almost surely be more trouble than it would be worth. Starting up a chat group for <21 bb subs/cumdumps/chasers is especially commendable, and I wish you the best of luck with it. Doing that shows signs of leadership and caring for your community and your peers. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in there, but I'm sure you don't want old farts getting in the way, since most of that crowd isn't likely to be as age-agnostic as you seem to be (I know I wasn't back then). Tell your Mentor friend that he has a thumbs-up from me when it comes to his efforts to increase your obedience and sleaziness. Sleaziness (and perviness in general) are my favorite attributes in a young sub (after being a chaser or being poz of course :) ) Let us know the results when you finally decide to do that test! Peace