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  Barebacking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barebacking is a term that originated in gay slang to describe acts of unprotected anal sex.
Barebacking as a practice is claimed to have become increasingly common again among MSMs in the mid-1990s.
Bareback gay pornography exists, with some bareback films portraying ejaculation in the rectum or on the anus of the models in the films.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barebacking   (1121 words)

  
 Barebacking - Wipipedia
Barebacking is a term that originated in gay slang for anal sex without the use of a condom.
Barebacking is a form of unsafe sex which puts both sexual partners at risk for the transmission of sexually transmitted infections, most notably HIV.
Barebacking is controversial both inside and outside the gay community, and the practice is often blamed for new waves of STI and HIV infections among young people.
www.londonfetishscene.com /wipi/index.php/Barebacking   (311 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The focus of barebacking, according to the report, is the intent to engage in unprotected anal sex with someone other than a primary partner.
In the study, the researchers found that 70% of gay or bisexual men interviewed were familiar with the term "barebacking." Of this group, 14% reported that they had barebacked at least once during the past 2 years.
Of the men who reported barebacking in the previous 2 years, 22% said they were HIV positive and 10% identified themselves as HIV negative.
uk.gay.com /printit/headlines/1685   (239 words)

  
 The Body: Barebacking in the Gay Community
Barebacking is used as a way to show intimacy, sharing, and caring between men.
In addition, with the increase in barebacking, we are now also expecting to see a second wave of HIV infections in the gay community, unless interventions are quickly taken to prevent this from occurring.
Barebacking is an extremely controversial and complicated issue, especially since it is dealing with human behavior.
www.thebody.com /sowadsky/barebacking.html   (2256 words)

  
 Science's AIDS Prevention and Vaccine Research Site
Barebacking, bug chasers and gift givers are some of the expressions of a subculture that claims that "safer sex is not real sex, it’s pretend sex," a recent trend of unknown origin and yet-to-be-determined impact on the spread of the HIV epidemic.
Barebacking — or intentional anal sex without a condom with someone other than a primary partner — is a sexual behavior that has become more prevalent in the last two years.
Barebacking is not the only phenomenon in the AIDS epidemic attracting media attention or gaining notoriety among the public health workforce.
aidscience.org /Articles/aidscience030.htm   (748 words)

  
 Crystal, Barebacking in Perspective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Barebacking is not new to South Florida or elsewhere, but it’s in Fort Lauderdale that I first became aware of what I myself might have called—before reading Michael Shernoff’s “Without Condoms”––barebacking with a vengeance.
Both authors discuss barebacking, drug use, and safer sex at length, concluding that there are no easy answers and that solutions must be individualized, respectful, and painstaking.
Barebacking and crystal use are private acts and likewise affect public health, indirectly if not always directly.
www.gaycitynews.com /gcn_453/crystalbarebacking.html   (1620 words)

  
 Barebacking
BAREBACKING is sappy, corny, campy, disgusting, tasteless, self-referential, lame, and the funniest thing by John Fisher I've ever seen.
Braided through the ridiculous shows are sub-plots of romance between Peter and a dancer named Hen; Craig and a music student, Matt; and a lesbian disciplinarian dance teacher named Janet and her cute blond girlfriend Suz.
With this show, paradoxically, Fisher has stepped back from himself to admit that his self-conscious brand of "raw and radical" theater is mostly image-making, political posturing, and that artistic energy *doesn't* lie on the left or right, or in acting like a Bohemian, but in the darker currents that pull from underneath.
www.radiofreemike.com /barebacking.html   (938 words)

  
 HIV prevention messages failing to convince gays / Condom-free anal sex keeps virus on increase
The study by researchers at the CDC and San Francisco's Department of Public Health is the first serious analysis of the practice of "barebacking," in which gay or bisexual men intentionally engage in sex without a condom with someone other than their primary partner.
Seventy percent of the 554 gay men contacted for the survey said they were familiar with barebacking, and of those, 14 percent said they had engaged in the practice within the past two years.
The barebacking phenomenon is occurring with increasing frequency through connections made on gay Web sites and chat rooms, gym steam rooms, commercial sex clubs and bars, said Keith Folger, who heads the Prevention for Positives program at the Stop AIDS Project.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/04/04/MN90033.DTL   (750 words)

  
 Michael Scarece: Back to Barebacking
The unwillingness of policy-makers, journalists, AIDS prevention specialists, and gay community leaders to acknowledge the valuable meanings of anal sex and bodily fluid exchange, in all their physical pleasures and cultural significance, has fashioned a rhetoric that is as reductive as it is misguided.
Gay men bareback for a multitude of reasons, including increased physical sensation, a sense of greater connectedness or intimacy with their sex partner, excitement in transgressing the paternal proscriptions of many AIDS prevention campaigns, sharing semen as a symbolic act of bonding, and more.
Now that barebacking has emerged as a distinct identity unto itself, however, most health experts seem to have written this population off rather than attempted outreach to them in a way that will be productive yet still acceptable to their adopted practices.
www.managingdesire.org /scarcebtb.html   (981 words)

  
 Barebacking: Exploring the issue from a harm reduction perspective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Barebacking refers to the conscious decision to have anal sex without a condom.
Barebacking is also closely associated with substance use, especially methamphetamine.
Ever since the word was coined, barebacking has been the source of intense controversy, media frenzy, and impassioned debate, both in communities impacted by HIV and in public health/HIV prevention circles.
apha.confex.com /apha/131am/techprogram/paper_54882.htm   (361 words)

  
 The Sociology of Barebacking
The highest level of social disapproval for barebacking is when it occurs between gay me, but the degree of censure varies greatly according to the situation.
Social scientists have found that some barebackers are "rational risk-takers," and note that there is a group of men whose sexual behavior is based on "rational" consideration of the risks of specific sexual acts.
While the risks of barebacking are well known, the potential benefits that go into the risk analysis are not so well understood.
www.gaypsychotherapy.com /GLRbarebacking.htm   (2337 words)

  
 Barebacking in California By Gay Men : LA IMC
Though reports of barebacking (the willful practice of engaging in condomless sex) have permeated the media for the past several years, it appears that, despite prevention messages, the practice is not going away.
He was lead researcher for a barebacking study in San Francisco, released this month at the National STD Prevention Conference held March 4-7 at the Town and Country hotel in San Diego.
Mansergh said his work “is the first quantitative study of barebacking ever in the MSM community.” He also noted that the scientists took great pains to tightly define the subject of barebacking, and also to reach out to a diverse set of ethnic groups.
la.indymedia.org /print.php?id=15863   (3627 words)

  
 Ottawa XPress - News - Barebacking: Mountain or molehill?
Egging HIV along is the emergence of crystal meth amongst the circuit party scene, surging condom fatigue resulting in "barebacking" (anal sex without protection) and a marginal group of people known as "bug chasers" who willingly seek out infected partners for the purpose of infecting themselves.
Now that barebacking and such have been identified as potential problems for young gay men who are tentavily discovering a gay environment, I strongly hope that the different programs offered will include extensive discussion on the matter.
Why does the singular thrill of performing sex by barebacking that is known to provoke irreversable ruin of one or the other's health have to be more important than preventive care?I suppose the same answer could be gotten by asking sp many smokers why they smoke until their lungs are charcoal fl.
www.ottawaxpress.ca /news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=8324   (2726 words)

  
 Barebacking and anal sex among gays and straights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
At the outset, I want to emphasis that barebacking, though a term adopted by the gay male community, is not an activity that is solely the dominion of gay and bisexual men.
Through the term barebacking, the act of anal intercourse has taken on a negative meaning with (as stated above) a tendency to conjure up explicit and provocative imagery as well as a tendency to invoke a self-gratifying voyeuristic approach to the subject of gay sex.
Barebacking also means a variety of other things to a variety of other people.
www.times10.org /hiv12001.htm   (1324 words)

  
 QueerID : Barebacking
Some experts blame the current progress made in HIV research and greater life extending HIV medications for the increased perception that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is controllable and no longer the concern it was in the 1980's.
Barebacking is the act of having anal sex with another man without a condom.
Barebacking can dramatically increase the chances of contracting HIV and other STDs like syphilis.
www.queerid.com /html/articles_barebacking.asp   (516 words)

  
 Barebacking gay men   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I haev updated witha hot barebacking story about a guy who dreamt about barebacking and finally did it with bunch of guys he had never met before.
So, first of all barebacking is unprotected anal sex between gay men, taken from the horse riding term by the smae name where you ride the horse without a saddle.
When you are redy to see more pictires and videos of real barebacking and pre-comdom sex I suggest you head over to Club Bareback.
www.barebackinggay.com   (230 words)

  
 How risky is barebacking?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Otherwise, barebacking puts partners - the one inserting his penis (insertive/top) and the one whose rectum is penetrated (receptive/bottom)- at high risk for infection (or reinfection) from HIV and other STIs.
Unless both partners are free of infection from HIV or other STIs, barebacking carries a high risk of spreading HIV, whether the person is the top or bottom partner.
If you have had bareback sex (either on the top or bottom) consider getting tested for HIV and other STIs so you can protect your health and that of your partner(s).
www.canadian-health-network.ca /servlet/ContentServer?cid=1013985&pagename=CHN-RCS/CHNResource/FAQCHNResourceTemplate&c=CHNResource〈=En   (478 words)

  
 Monterey's Gay Homepage
Wenzl noted that local gay men have started to ask about barebacking after reading noted authors such as Michaelangelo Signorile and Larry Kramer condemn the activism of Sex Panic, a group that advocates a return to the sexual freedom of the 1970s despite the risk.
Barebacking isn't new to those already infected with HIV, who face the responsibility of not spreading the virus every time they have sex.
While all of those interviewed for this article had their own opinions about barebacking, they did agree that within a closed relationship-one where both partners were monogamous-barebacking has a place.
www.mbay.net /~wes/monterey/tpmar98/tpmar98._barebacking.html   (1312 words)

  
 'Super-infection' may slow development of AIDS vaccine: Barebacking may lead to re-infection, multiple strains of ...
A case study presented earlier this month at the XIV International AIDS Conference in Barcelona highlighted the case of a Boston man who was already reacting well to vaccine trials for one strain of HIV.
The study demonstrates the difficulty in reaching a viable vaccine as various subtypes and strains of HIV work in tandem to negate a vaccine's effects, according to Bruce Walker, the Harvard Medical School doctor who presented the case study.
Gay men who bareback sometimes cite greater physical stimulation and a stronger sense of intimacy as reasons for their behavior.
www.aegis.com /news/wb/2002/WB020712.html   (901 words)

  
 GayHealth: HIV and AIDS
The first study gauging the incidence of barebacking among MSM proves it is in no way a mere fantasy, rather a kind of sex that is putting MSM at high risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
A total of 14 percent of almost 400 MSM surveyed reported barebacking -- which was defined in the study as intentional unprotected sex with a non-primary partner -- in the past two years.
The availability of better treatments was given as a reason for barebacking with 19 percent of men who had barebacked saying that improved treatments caused them to have more unprotected sex.
gayhealth.com /iowa-robot/sex/aids?record=754   (982 words)

  
 BAREBACKING AND THE NEW AIDS HYSTERIA | News | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
Associate Editor Tom Flint insists that barebacking "is a real problem," and argues that his newspaper needs "to bring it out into the open." Yet Flint's paper feels no parallel obligation to discuss the topic with intelligence or critical analysis.
And while the press reported this rise of gonorrhea as "a return to the 1970s," almost all journalists failed to note that San Francisco's infection rate is still a tiny percentage of what it was before the education work of the 1980s.
At a San Francisco forum on barebacking last August, staff from Stop AIDS, a pioneering gay men's prevention project in San Francisco, acknowledged that--even with this supposedly shocking rise in rectal gonorrhea cases--the 200 cases reported in 1997 are nowhere near the 9,000 reported annually during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=688   (2625 words)

  
 Barebacking FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The only safe way to enjoy barebacking sex is by watching it on video.
I like having bareback sex, but I only do it with my boyfriend.
The guys you find having anal unprotected sex in photos and on video is rigorously tested and often they are in fact in long term relationships with eachother.
www.barebackinggay.com /faq.htm   (308 words)

  
 Pre-exposure prophylaxis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The effectiveness of PrEP for HIV is as yet unproven, and medical trials of PrEP have collapsed due to protests about the exposure of members of the control group to HIV.
One criticism of PrEP for HIV is that it might encourage risky behavior such as barebacking, possibly increasing, rather than decreasing, the risk of HIV infection both to the individual and the population at large.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis can also refer to the aggressive use of vaccination, for example in an attempt to prevent rabies in people such as laboratory workers who are high risk for being bitten by rabid animals.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pre-exposure_prophylaxis   (239 words)

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