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> Why don’t men stop having sex with each other and then they won’t be at risk for HIV?

OK, you seem to have some misunderstandings about HIV. Through an accident of history, HIV in the US spread through the gay population first. That is not the case for HIV generally, and any thought that not having sex with other men is going to protect you is totally wrong.



The overwhelming majority of new HIV infections are men having sex with men. Having unprotected anal sex with a man is absolutely the highest risk category for HIV.

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/index.html

The second risk factor is using intravenous drugs. Stay away from these two things and you are very safe.

It’s also not so much historical factors as the fact that anal sex is a little more than 30x more likely to spread HIV than vaginal sex.




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