Todays attitude vs yesteryear attitude

[Ponystallion]

I have been pix for more than 30 yrs and know what my take on safe sex was about. I wanted to always have unprotected sex! Now for those who have been around doing the beginning of this plight, how did you feel then vs. now?

[evilqueerpig]

No different from then to now..."If it ain't bareback, it ain't fuckin...and it ain't happenin!"

[PozBearWI]

I've only been a barebacker for decades now.  Pretty much what @evilqueerpig wrote...

[viking8x6]

I always wanted  to have bare sex (my first time was bare, back in '85). I just knew with my brain that it was risky. So I was judicious - and mostly didn't, until around '98. At that point I gradually got more comfortable with the risk and did play bare some of the time, until PrEP came along in around 2012 and changed the landscape.

Ironically, my ex (dated from about '00 to '03, long distance, non-monogamous), whom I lured over to the raw sex camp, wound up seroconverting sometime around when we broke up or a little after that, while I was still negative. I'm guessing he might have been at greater risk, because he had poor dental health and hemorrhoids. HAART kept him a healthy poz man, though - he died of a heart attack.