Gay sauna hiv
California study contests belief that saunas facilitate HIV transmission
Most male lover and bisexual men do not engage in high-risk HIV transmission behaviour in saunas or bathhouses according to a study from the University of California, San Francisco published in the June 1st edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The study’s results – which found that some men who reported recent high-risk behaviour in other settings actually had safer sex at the sauna – contest the long-held belief that saunas facilitate HIV transmission on a large scale.
It has been a long-held assumption that saunas (known in the Merged States as bathhouses) facilitate high-risk sex amongst gay and attracted to both genders men. Although previous studies possess suggested that saunas attract men who visit a variety of public sex environments, a recent study from Australia suggested that there are different kinds of risk attached to particular types of public sex venues, and that men who had sex in the backroom of a bar or club were nine times more likely than men who had sex in saunas to have unprot
Did you know that men have been cruising each other for sex at bathhouses since the 15th century?
While the original intention of men&#;s bathhouses may have been hygiene, today’s gay bathhouses or saunas, along with other types of sex-on-premises-venue (SOPV) or sex venues, are intended as places where you can meet others for casual sex. SOPVs offer a place to examine and play with a wider variety of people, many of whom might not appear on a dating app grid.
Walking around a gay sauna or SOPV, you might quickly realise a whole new put of rules is at play; with everything from navigating consent to existence comfortable in a sexualised space, there can be a lot to understand. Here’s what you should know before heading into a sex venue for the first time.
How does a homosexual sauna operate?
Like a hotel, you’ll enter at your venue, and there will be a front desk where you’ll pay an admission fee, and in return, you’ll accept a locker key and a towel.
From there, it’s a matter of heading to the changerooms to change into the towel and store your clothes in a locker. Upon arriving, many p
The stigma that comes with HIV has prevented a lot of people from seeking treatment, or even entering facilities that evaluate for it—and this is a part of why we have nearly million people in this territory unknowingly living with the virus, with the uncertainty of potentially spreading it to others.
As someone who&#;s been in healthcare for years—working my way up from a community health care worker to a director of testing and counseling—I&#;ve learned that I couldn’t afford to be shy when fighting an HIV epidemic that is estimated to hit nearly half of black men who have sex with men (MSM). Black women are still the extreme group infected of all women, and Latino MSM have a contraction rate of 24 percent over their lifetime—numbers that are disproportionate in comparison to our white counterparts.
It was while working at one of the oldest black community-based organizations fighting HIV in the nation that I learned the importance of going into the community and becoming a familiar face people saw. Building trust with people who have been jaded by poor treatment from the medical industr