Anyone barebacked their way through the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and early 1990s?

[StlBottom]

Am a total bottom, never topped and always bareback.  Very active since 1978.  Condoms only if the Top had them and wanted to use them.  Some did as I never cleaned my ass out.  We didn't do that when I started fucking in the late 50s.  Girls or guys, living at home, parents, 1 bathroom, was not going to happen.  Still neg today tested in January 2025. 

Saw a post few years ago, researchers found that of those who did not cleanout ~90% were neg, while those who did ~80% became pos.

70s and 80s many tops would fuck a dirty hole like mine, by the 90s not so many anymore.  Never refuse a covered cock or atm on one, but will always prefer Bareback.

[Rawonly06]

Certainly ! Got so many loads in this période. Everybody was fucking raw then

 

[bareguy43]

I started from the early 80's first time I got tucked it was a guy from down the street from me in Washington Parish. It was a very small town. I kept going when moved to the Baton Rouge area fucked guys in park bathrooms. This guy from California I used to take home and fucked, once in the middle of the fuck, so.done knocked and he joined in, Around this time I introduced to poppers.

 

 

[drscorpio]

I lost my virginity to my first college roommate in 1983. I had plenty of bareback sex for the rest of college; news about AIDS was just beginning to trickle into our consciousness then. I moved to a larger city for grad school in 1985 and became a condom nazi for 6-7  years. A fuckbuddy eventually convinced me to try taking it bare again in 1992; I never really went back to condoms although I tried to for a couple of years. By 1995, I was really bare only with no condoms in my house. I ended up getting work in a fairly rural town where I still am; that protected me somewhat. There were, however, lots of trips to bigger cities for gay events where I happily took bare cock. I met my first husband in 2005, and we went monogamous for 6 years. We were open barebackers for several years until PrEP came out, and we went on it. 

[DevilDawg]

My barebacking during the peak of the AIDS Era was originally due to mistakes in lube and technique. However, as I got over the shock of my first bloody fuck with a rough rider condom on top of a regular condom deflowering, I experienced the shock and thrill of a condom snapping. As kinks go, (to my knowledge) there is not a hanky for that particular kink. In 1991, as the Gulf War was starting It was unlikely that my (then) unit was going to be deployed because an AH-1F could barely get out of a high hover with a full fuel and ammo load so I got put on a counter drug key personnel upgrade KPUP deployment at Ft Clayton, Ft Kobe, and Howard AFB Panama. Besides HIV, there was a local strain of Black Syph so I was bursting as my 45 day TDY went on over 6 months at USARSO. When I returned, I learned my landlord had tossed my stuff out in the street months before my return so most of my nights for the next 6 months was at the O Street Baths, Falcon Theater, LaCage, etc. (Where the Nationals Ballpark is now, where the Pope blessed the Nation). Prior to that, from around 1983 to when it was demolished, I would spend hours in the theater section of Casino Royal on DC's 14th St after getting loaded with beer at the DC Eagle. Play would usually start safe but the condom always seemed to disappear. Same with the corral sex section of the old Frat House, blackout nights at the The New York Ave Eagle and the earlier locations, and when the weather was good, the brush in the P Street Beach Area. You should not have too many indiscretions so close to work, but plenty of safe sex turned into unsafe bare sex especially at Lyndon Banes 'Johnson' Park by the parking lot of the Pentagon with Rt 1/110 on the other side. The real shocks came when play started safe with the surety of friction, then felt better with little friction, then you went to the bathroom to do your business and found multiple rubbers in the stool. It was a shuddering shock when you have had two cocks up your ass but find 3 or 4 rubbers in the bowl. My shuddering and Shockey question to myself: Were they picking up used ones off of the floor and fucking them up my chute? Good Times!