tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30051204.post115628507329649263..comments2024-03-29T03:34:34.873-04:00Comments on Gay Conservative Liberal: Something to think aboutGay Conservative Liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16794634321370660899noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30051204.post-1156352843349853972006-08-23T13:07:00.000-04:002006-08-23T13:07:00.000-04:00Interesting post.Maybe some day there could be a d...Interesting post.<BR/><BR/>Maybe some day there could be a discussion about "obsession." A person might have a high interest in sex without it being an obsession. <BR/><BR/>"Obsession" has a lot of ancillary baggage which allows a reader to read something into it which a writer might not wish to convey.<BR/><BR/>If we all possessed the same level of sexual urgency (from non-urgent to NOW!!!), we might be able to use words which have multiple variations with precision. That situation probably doesn't exist. <BR/><BR/>Splitting hairs? <BR/><BR/>Regardless of the above, your point that there is, and has always been, a compelling need for responsibility in sexual activity is 100% valid.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08260190087894762997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30051204.post-1156309976356928132006-08-23T01:12:00.000-04:002006-08-23T01:12:00.000-04:00Addendum: Excuse me, I misremembered. The story wa...Addendum: Excuse me, I misremembered. The story was not that the guy with visible KS lesions was told his lesions were sexy. He was told that they were cute.<BR/><BR/>Somehow, that's worse. Shudderingly worse.Steve T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12075948665118760070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30051204.post-1156308539532114382006-08-23T00:48:00.000-04:002006-08-23T00:48:00.000-04:00I'm appalled by this, but it doesn't surprise me. ...I'm appalled by this, but it doesn't surprise me. Young HIV-neg men, young enough to have known of AIDS all their lives, seeking to get "the gift" of infection from HIV-pos men, is a symptom of a sickness in our gay culture we just must address.<BR/><BR/>20 years ago I trained as an AIDS Hotline counselor for Aids Project Los Angeles. We were told of APLA clients reporting how they'd get approached in a bar by a guy who said he thought their Kaposi's Sarcoma lesions were sexy. The 20 of us in that class were some pretty tough birds, but that was the only thing in the whole training course that shocked every one of us.<BR/><BR/>It's many things. It's survivors' guilt, for some older people. Why should I live when my friends have died? But for the youngsters, they've absorbed a culture in love with its own victimhood, and what greater victimization is there than death? It's thrilling to think of yourself as the brave but doomed hero fighting a magnificent but futile fight against inevitable death, seen as transcendence in glorious defeat. That you've invited this fight to the death upon yourself be seeking out infection is horribly sick and perverted, but the mind's capacity for self-deception takes care of that.Steve T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12075948665118760070noreply@blogger.com