Abstract
Everywhere you turn these days there seems to be another report about the alarming breakdown in safe sex among gay men. In a current study financed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two-thirds of the gay men participating say they had unprotected sex in the previous 18 months. After levelling off in the late eighties, the HIV infection rate among gay men is once again on the rise. These reports have not surprised me. In moments of profound carelessness, I habe also engaged in unsafe sex. Now I find myself in total uncertainty about my HIV status, yet am fearful ofbeing tested. The chilling statistics, combined with my own predicament make me question the message most AIDS organisations have been sending in their safer sex education campaigns. In general, they have refused to emphasise the particular responsibilities of HIV positive men, and have not been attentive to the needs of HIV negative men, who often feel guiltridden because they are still healthy and who still refuse to admit their vulnerability.
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