ACON looks to inform bareback porn buyers
ACON is looking to re-instate a partnership with the Eros Foundation to provide buyers of bareback porn with information on safe sex.
The move follows the publication of an enlightening interview with HIV specialist Dr Wilbert C. Jordan on the adult industry website, JLR.
In the interview between Keith Witchka and Dr Jordan, a practitioner of infectious disease medicine for over 37 years, Jordan highlighted the dangers posed to actors and the danger of promoting a conflicting message to the ideals of safe sex through bareback porn.
Of course there are people who can watch this and let their fantasy be fulfilled and take it no further, but there are others who cannot, Jordan told the interviewer.
We need more messages that say sex without a condom is wrong, bad, not wise, should not be done in casual encounters. At least if we make that the standard it will allow people to know what they should be doing. Privately they will do what their needs dictate.
In response ACON is looking to re-establish a partnership with the Eros Foundation, an advocacy group which works closely with the adult industry, to ensure information can be sent to people who order bareback porn.
ACON’s acting community health director Dermot Ryan said while most people were capable of distinguishing between fantasy and reality there may be a small fraction of men at risk, and that warrants providing information.
ACON’s education program is very broad and we do address the issues in regards unprotected anal intercourse, he told Sydney Star Observer.
In the past the HIV sector has successfully worked with the adult entertainment industry so that, where people have ordered bareback videos from distributors, whenever they have ticked the box saying -˜give us the catalogue for bareback videos’ we have in the past been able to have campaign information sent along with the catalogues, which is just really base level issues around safe sex and maintaining a culture of condom use and providing people with access points if they want to get in contact with an organisation like ours, he told Sydney Star Observer.
We are now looking to work with Eros to see whether we can re-do that, because there are always opportunities to take a targeted approach to spreading that message.
Have your say: Do you think bareback porn promotes unsafe sex?
Paul Mitchell …you call yourself an activist…what a joke!!
here you are advocating murder..go and crawl back under the rock you came out of and stay there..
You can’t have immunity without a community. Let’s be sensible for a moment and commit ourselves to wearing condoms with casual partners and not rely solely on herd immunity to protect us. Given a long enough timeline those who regularly bareback outside of specific, controlled situations are guaranteed to expose themselves to HIV.
People with HIV are out there and deserve to have satisfying sex lives. The onus is on each person to protect themselves, their partners and their species.
If you have an overwhelming urge to bareback find yourself a regular partner and go get tested together.
No Paul, it is called being selfish, reckless, irresponsible, showing a total lack of respect for the health and wellbeing of the partner you could possibly be newly infecting or re-infecting with a new strain of the HIV virus or another disease that might hasten progression to full-blown AIDS… and expecting the tax payer to pick up the bills for the new meds you will need as a condequence. What have we become as a community that we now condone those among us who are effectively destroying our collective health? Larry Kramer was spot on when he said in 2004: “I wish we could understand and take some responsibility for the fact that for some years we have been murdering each other with great facility, and that down deep inside of us, we knew what we were doing…”
Paul, I wouldnt sleep with them!!!!
Without the leather, those two men in that picture at the top are very sexy, even I would love to sleep with them!!!
People choose to not use condoms by thier own admission, I personally would use condoms. People also have a right not to use condoms also – It is called a personal choice.