It was just my observation. I don’t think focused PET studies have been done on sexual response. Yet. But it would explain a lot.
But the sex drive is STRONG. We are programmed to have it even under less than ideal conditions. So it is no surprise to me that often the higher brain functions (thinking) are overridden by the older, reptilian brain, which urges one to mate.
Some claim humans are beyond all this animalistic, mechanistic behavior. From my observations, I don’t think so, IMHO. YMMV.
REPTILIAN BRAIN!!!
Icke was RIGHT…!!!
I understand “relation sex” more than “bathhouse sex”. When you are dating one person, the assumption is that you are a good person, therefore, your partner is.
I would have thought that bathhouse sex (change that to orgy sex) would have died off sooner because there is no assumption that you are dating and logic would assume greater risk.
But since men have 2 heads there is a certain sexual bipolar thing going on.
I hope that’s not the answer to the OP, because it’s dangerous thinking. HIV/AIDS IS a death sentance, it just takes a little longer now days.
HAHAHA - great, now I need a new keyboard, ** vanilla. ** 
Still pretty much true. But there are individuals who are doing well after having the virus for over 25 years now. They are by far the exceptions, however. We still can’t eradicate the virus, and it still causes morbidity and mortality in 99+% of cases. But people are living longer and healthier. Unfortunately this gives some of them more opportunity to pass on the virus. Its damn frustrating that people’s behaviors are so hard to change.
I think you need to develop your reptilian brain vanilla… its being totally overidden by your rational one… not to be mean… but no sex for so long cannot be normal. 
Yes, it certainly can.
Ever heard of monks?
Or christians?
We don’t have sex (most of us) outside of marriage.
We live, we are happy, and normal (depending on what you consider normal-I like John Waters form of normal myself)
“What does egg size have to do with the pores of a condom”
It was a typo that came to light to me when I was on the street. It should be ‘sperm’.
" Though I’ve been celibate for 9 years so theres no way I am sick. "
STD’s can be transmitted without sexual contact. Blood contact, for example.
Should one ever wear a condom when having sex with themselves?
I had a longer, more eloquent post yesterday, but the hamsters ate it, and I’d saved it to notepad and then my boss came and used my computer and…
But I see that the points I intended to address were not addressed! So!
Point 1. Women CAN get pregnant while on their period.
Point 2. Condoms are not always unsexy, since cowgirl asked. Condoms are somewhat prevalent in the lesbian community (especially for butches/boys), and especially prevalent in lesbian erotic literature. I can provide cites through email. Condoms are a symbol of masculinity and prowess. There is a medical justification, too–if you’re penetrating multiple partners with the same dildo, erm, residue, can cause problems. But rubber gloves, saran wrap, and dams are much less popular, for the non-sensation reasons listed above. But condoms, rock on.
Point 3. Why do people engage in unsafe sex? Lack of self-esteem. Fear of rejection.
handy, you were warned to never again post on medical topics. Goodbye.
Lynn
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No way ! That’s awesome. Ironic that it’s lesbians, who are at the lowest risk for AIDS transmission, that have run with it …
I still find them unsexy: they smell, for one thing, and they don’t feel nice. Now that I’m married it’s not an issue but it’s something I’d certainly explore if I became part of a condom-using demographic …
[teeny-tiny hijack] Condoms help lesbians keep from getting UTIs from their toys. Gellys can’t always be sterilised using heat (because they’ll melt), and using harsh cleansers can cause the yeasties if trace amounts are left after rinsing. Of course any good lezzie washes with mild soap and warm water before and after, but condoms give a fresh, new, clean surface to toys every time, without damaging the toy.[/teeny-tiny hijack]
In conclusion, condoms make sex safer for lesbians too!
First of all, check out this link.
<quoting SD>
According to a report by researchers Norman Hearst and Stephen Hulley in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the odds of a heterosexual becoming infected with AIDS after one episode of penile-vaginal intercourse with someone in a non-high-risk group without a condom are one in 5 million. With a condom it’s even safer–one in 50 million. Just to put this in perspective, the chances of someone in your family getting injured next year in a bubble bath are 1 in 1.3 million.
<end quoting SD>
Those are odds that some of us were pretty content to live with, especially if we find condoms uncomfortable at all (which we do).
You know, one of the great tenets of the “safe sex” education program, heavily pushed back in the 80s was “AIDS does not discriminate.”
Well, you know what, it pretty much did. It was overwhelmingly connected with homosexuals and IV drug users. And they tried to get us all to believe that that wasn’t true, but inherently, we knew it. We knew at our small liberal arts college with other kids from middle income families that we were effectively at zero risk of contracting AIDS – and also at VERY LOW risk of contracting one of the ones that can be cured.
And counselors, and health-education specialists and whoever else tried to scare us and get us to believe that we were at risk, but no one believed it.
If you want to define all sex without a condom as unsafe sex go right ahead, but I don’t buy it.
I’m going to define unsafe sex as unprotected homosexual sex and unprotected sex with a hooker or needle user. So, in that sense, I wouldn’t have unsafe sex, but I’ll still have unprotected sex (well, if I weren’t married…).
The problem is that it is not unsafe to have unprotected sex with a gay man who has no STDs, and it is unsafe to have unprotected sex with a person of the opposite sex who does.
HIV is a virus, not a demographic.
Someone did take MRIs of people having sex (in the tube!) a couple of years ago. Those pix focused on the anatomical aspects (not the brain waves), however.
Science is a noble pursuit.
How did they get those big MRI machines into The Underground?
> I don’t think its justifiable at all to not have
> safe sex. Yes it may be a pain in the neck
It doesn’t sound like you are using it properly.
This is only true if you are parochial enough to confine your vision to the USA. If you consider the whole world, AIDS is far more common among straight people than gays. That’s where it started, after all – among straight people in Africa.