sexual ecology: don't be fooled by the title, boring and no sexual exploits recounted

reading rotello's 'sexual ecology: aids and the destiny of gay men.' interesting and he raises quite a few good points. i had picked it up because it was cited in gladwell's 'the tipping point' as an excellent study in the tipping point as it applies to hiv infection. his basic point is that condoms, as a technological fix to an environmental problem, will never do the job on their own and that gay men will need to change the way they have sex, fewer total partners and few partners at the same time, in addition to using condoms if the aids epidemic is to ever end.

as i was reading i began to think that instead of the sexual vanguard that i thought i was in i was actually being a sexual conservative in not embracing change when change is obviously needed. as i read further i changed my mind again. it seems to me that i am just a guy who likes to have sex with lots of people regardless of what that makes me in any movement's view.

i was looking online and it seems that the ugandan model that many talk about as a successful example of aids prevention: abc- a(bstinence), b(e faithful) and c(use condoms if you can't do a or b) is what rotello was talking about. for world aids day someone sent a timeline in to hivpozintobdsm, one of the yahoogroups that i am a member of, and the timeline started in the late 70's early 80's but rotello cites posthumously diagnosed aids in the mid to late 60's and circumstantial evidence that is was around since the 40's. when i checked on the internet most timelines started in the early 80's too. i'm assuming that the studies and analyses that rotello cites are correct but i wonder what new info has come out, that's why i put 'rethinking aids prevention' on reserve, not sure it will give me what i want though, but hey it's free cause it's from the library.

shame of the explosion of aids into third world countries is that it takes some of the pressure off of gay men. if so many third world countries weren't having so much trouble with aids and it were still just those 'perverted fags' who were still getting it i wonder if there would still be the same amount of concern.

i also wonder if this is why so many men do have 'risky' sex, because without serious change there is no light at the end of the tunnel. i don't see aids being stopped and i don't know that that is the reason that i am ready to court this infection on bended knee, but there is an inevitability that i think i am not alone in feeling.