The CDC has done a psych evaluation of the population to answer their efforts and thereby their funding needs around HIV/AIDs.
Here’s how it shakes out:
If you have an HIV-Safe Sex Message which basically explain what the disease is and it’s transmitted and it goes to 100 people, we process it in 3 ways.
45 people “get it” and regularly practice safe sex, buy condoms, even enjoy it (I used to have a bowl of about 200 condoms on my living groom table). They drink the Kool Aid as it were and internalize the message. If they get infected it’s by accident, rape, or the most common way, from exposure in a long term relationship (which is how well over 60% of people become infected.)
45 people “don’t get it” and simply don’t give a fuck. They will continue to do as they will and it’s a chore, an effort, a hit and miss, a space they will readily lie to partner’s about, when in sexual congress. They fall into the category of people who don’t get tested, don’t know if they’re infected or who can pretty much assume by amount of sexual activity that they are positive and don’t care. They also assume that it’s a partner’s responsibility to protect themselves and if you optioned into the sex, you optioned in to the risk.
10 people “are on the fence”—-this is whom the CDC is aiming for, trying to sway, to convince, to get to drink the Kool Aid, to believe the stats, to see the truth. When they would come to the LGBT organization I worked for an explain this, my mind was blown. Then they dropped the next bomb—-70% of the newly infected over 30 something are generally——people who work in LGBT agencies, HIV testers, counselors—-the idea being that we were desensitized to the danger because we saw our HIV+ clients regularly and therefore saw them living normal lives. HIV no longer appeared unconsciously “bad” to us.
The 10% the CDC is aiming to sway are thought to be the population that will maintain relationships and force safe sex upon the 45 who don’t care. That a majority will be created and the majority will over whelm the unsafe majority.
Okay, it gets deeper. I’m reading this behavioral economics book, More Sex Is Safer Sex , and he’s worked out that the problem is how the 45% who are Safe Sexers already, do so because they are more sexually conservative. If they were more sexually active then they would cross convince the 10% who would then overwhelm the Don’t Care 45%.
That those of us who are not rampantly sexual when single, are essentially not flooding the dating pool with our “responsible way of thinking and acting sexually”.
That instead of PSAs and ads that talk about simply Safe Sex, they should include encouragements to have more sex.
I’ve also always thought from the work that I did, that even if Dynamic Duos Alpha Beta—-15%/85% held—-our targeting ads should be to Bottoms who are the highest risk of infection as they are the receptive partner.
“How to be Safe As a Bottom”
“Is Your Bottom Safe?”
“Yo, Bottom, we’re talking to your ass”
You know, subtle like.
Infection rates continue to skyrocket because we don’t have enough incentive towards the other 55% to practice safe sex and teh remaining 45% to be sexual. This can of course be tied to social acceptance. If men are more accepted for their non-heterosexuality—-space made i teh social domain—-marriage, equality, job safety—-they can literally have sex from a healthier place than furtive, frustrated, rushed, clandestine. The more normed same sex relations are, the more STI rates will plummet. The opposite occurring is because it’s still in a transition period where some areas of teh country/world are liberal and accepting and others are not. It generally takes 10–20 years form when something is legalized for it to socially shift the population as a norm. You can also see the limitations in the roles in entertainment around sexuality. Most of teh times it’s about sexuality, the role.
When the action hero is just incidentally not straight, then we’ll be somewhere.
Marvel Studios? Can we get a Northstar movie?
Now THAT I would go see as progressive. I still haven’t seen Black Panther, that was just to capture the Black Audience, in a totality net.
Smile, Kyle
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