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Had a great Pride weekend in Boston. Started with a brunch party, then the parade, a block party, dinner with friends then 2 bars on Saturday. Sunday was another big block party with great dance music and good drinks. Boston Pride week and weekend is always lots of flirty, shirtless, sexy fun. So how about it, guys? Anyone else do Pride weekend (if it happened yet where you live)?
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Have a look here at the answer to the question "I talked to my doctor about PrEP and they won't prescribe it because they don't know what it is. What can I do?" http://men.prepfacts.org/the-questions/ BTW, that whole website http://prepfacts.org has lots of good information about PrEP and was put together by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. See also this link on this site: https://breeding.zone/threads/26655-Take-These-Documents-to-Your-Doctor-When-Discussing-PrEP Hope this helps.
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After lots of conversation over months my husband and I decided a some months ago to open up our relationship more fully. I went on PrEP and we worked out our rules: must know where you are, can't interfere with "us time," no emotional attachments outside, etc. It's been a definite improvement for both of us. Talking honestly is hard and it took us months to get there, but I encourage you to start the conversation. Have you asked him what he wants and if he's happy, lately? If you're HIV negative and want to stay negative, I strongly encourage you to look into starting PrEP. (Your insurance WILL cover it.) And you should agree to get tested regularly (every 3-6 months) for all the other STDs. Oh, and you have been vaccinated against Hepatitis A and B, right?
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Reactions I've gotten about being on PrEP have been very different from yours, Blueyedsoul. Mostly curiosity: e.g. "What's PrEP?" I have received NO negative reactions or shaming. So when I get one of those questions, I answer and briefly explain that its an FDA-approved, once daily pill to help prevent HIV infection and that I take it because I am a bottom, HIV- (and want to stay neg.) and like bareback. The next message back is usually "Thanks, cool - didn't know about it" or "Great, let's fuck." (I love the 2nd answer!) I'm now putting "Neg. and on PrEP" on my profiles and agree with Rawfuckr -- more awareness about PrEP benefits the whole community (as does more awareness of Treatment as Prevention).
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Here's a direct link to the Gilead Truvada payment assistance options for those both WITH and WITHOUT insurance: http://www.truvada.com/truvada-patient-assistance
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Your thoughts on BreedingZone.com vs Breeding.Zone?
tallbtm replied to rawTOP's topic in General Discussion
RawTOP, basically I think the reason you're seeing a preference for the status quo is inertia and familiarity. People know "www.breedingzone.com" and recognize it as a URL. Before reading your explanation I would not have guessed that "breeding.zone" was a URL unless it had the http:// in front of it. "Breeding.zone" just looks like a stylized word or brand, much like the capital letters companies put in middle of their names (e.g. iPhone, eBay) or the odd punctuation other companies use (e.g. Toys "R" Us, Macy*s). I'm sure that as the 900+ new TLDs start to become familiar it won't matter much either way. Does this make sense? Does it help? -
Two words: Condom Fatigue. When I started having sex, no one knew about AIDS. (It didn't even have a name yet.) Condoms were for guys trying to avoid causing a pregnancy not gay guys. Not long after (sometime in the 1980s in my experience) condoms became required and expected for sex because the possibility of HIV infection was so frightening. Men of my age all saw friends die around us and it scared us. (The HIV cocktails only became available in that later 1990s.) I hated condoms but just put up with them (and insisted on them) because becoming positive seemed so dire. When the HIV cocktails arrived they gave a glimmer of hope and it was years more before the drugs became far less toxic, simpler to take and, for the majority taking them, well tolerated. Today we know so much more about the low risks of sex with guys who are undetectable and the opportunity to protect HIV- men with PrEP. Condoms are no long the "only" way to protect yourself if you want to remain negative. I hated the condoms I felt compelled to carry and use for decades. Now, on PrEP, I feel I can have the sex I really want to without that nagging concern and worry I was taught for so long to have. The "safe sax" messages worked on me for a long time but now falls on deaf ears. I know I'm not alone. That's what I mean by Condom Fatigue.
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Take These Documents to Your Doctor When Discussing PrEP
tallbtm replied to Poz1956's topic in PrEP Discussion
Agreed. This post is worth a sticky. Thank you for compiling all this, Poz1956. And no, I didn't have to sign anything to get my prescription. I'm fortunate: My doctor has a lot of gay patients and is already knowledgeable about HIV (including PrEP) so it was an easy conversation. Mostly he counseled me on the importance of adhering to the once-a-day pill instructions, emphasizing how important it is to not miss doses to achieve the most protection. -
Is this the video you're thinking about? http://www.xtube.com/watch.php?v=IXBUv-G564-
