Racism.
But in an inverted positive way—-Black racism towards other people/cultures and White gay men who have less racism towards sexual partners.
(Yes, there are 5 not 10 men. So I duplicated the picture. Insanely it is very difficult to find 10 Black men in a picture together that aren’t real people—-not stock photos for what is about to be a very enlightening but graphic paradigmatic presentation on Black LGBTSGL Sexuality vs. White LGBTSGL Sexuality.)
The CDC and Dept. of Health Have Answered this Question Through Racial Surveying of Bluntly, How Men, of Various Cultures, Fuck. And More Importantly WHOM They Fuck (or Get Fucked By.)
The common thinking from the Dept. of Health and CDC that I got in trainings when I worked for several non-profits, that were specifically 80% full of men of color, that got HIV testing/programmatic funding was that it’s a group probability mathematical theory.
I know right……math in sex!
Any who. what they were able to figure out is if you have 10 men, you have to isolate those ten men’s behaviors based upon culture and race.
Men who sex with men still act out their cultural norms similar to heterosexuals.
What??????????
What this means is that, and I lived in these neighborhoods, I can agree to the theory—- so they were able to study groups of Whites, Blacks, Latinos——that each culture had sex with men differently.
Paradigm # 1
Jamal, Andre, Leroy, John, Ted, Jumanne, Hugh, Joey, Ted, Farouk—-all are sexually active in Harlem, Manhattan, NY.
What happened is the first 6 men are in relationships with one another and the latter 4 are single or either men they have had sex with in the past or include in their sexual actions, even though they’re in relationships.
Black men in the 10 Man group tended to circulate sexually within their 10 Man cultural Group.
White Gay Dudes
Johnny, Bill, Dwayne, Gary, Ron, Fred, Teddy, Horace, Frank, Mike—-all are sexually active in Chelsea, Manhattan, NY.
What happened is say the first 6 men are in relationships with one another and the latter 4 are again single or either men they have had sex with in the past or include in their sexual actions, even though they’re in relationships.
White men in the 10 Man group tended to circulate sexually differently/throughout other 10 Man Groups.
What About Latinos?
Juan, Hector, Jose, Juanito, Miguel, Theo, JoJo, Mario, Nico, David are all sexually active with men in Washington Heights/Inwood, Manhattan—-and all of some sort of Latino-Hispanic descent.
What happened is say the first 6 men are in relationships with one another and the latter 4 are again single or either men they have had sex with in the past or include in their sexual actions, even though they’re in relationships.
Latino men in the 10 Man group tended to circulate sexually within their 10 Man cultural Group.
HIV+ Infections Rates Climb in Black & Latino Groups But Lower in White Groups. Why?
Okay, so from the three “cultural control groups” suddenly the HIV infection rates come out:
- (Black) Group 1: 50% are HIV+
- (White) Group 2: 10% are HIV+
- (Latino) Group 3: 40% are HIV+.
Checking that everyone was negative as of the counting/calculation and that they were all sexually active during the year long monitoring, the researchers then looked at what made them different—Black, White, Latino.
What they found in the sexual practices of each individual based upon culture/ethnicity/race were different sexual intra-community standards and preferences.
Blacks-Group 1, those 10 men, over a year’s time, circulated sexually within the 10 men within their cultural Group. They had say only 1 man of sexual separation. They all didn’t know each other but upon investigation they had all had sex with someone that the others had had sex with.
Jamal had sex with his partner Ted, who had sex with Hugh and Joey, in the past and present, within the year. And so on. The cross sexual connection was not broken.
Jamal has now technically, biologically had sex with Ted AND Hugh and Joey.
Andre had sex with Jamal—-so technically biologically he’s also had sex with Ted, Hugh and Joey.
Hugh and Joey have technically had sex with Jamal and Ted AND Andre. Plus Hugh has had sex with Jumanne and Farouk. Joey has had sex with Farouk AND Leroy and John.
Jamal, Leroy, John, Ted, Jumanne, Hugh, Joey, Ted, Farouk and Andre through permutations of combinations have all had biological sex with people that they haven’t had physical sex with. But HIV can still be transmitted. And ironically HIV can be transmitted by someone who isn’t registering as HIV+ themselves.
So ALL 10 African Americans have technically/biologically had sex with one another. (Psycho/Social Sexual Point#1)
Now what shifts their level of HIV Infection is how many of them are practicing Safe Sex (PRep and for arguments sake, condoms as well.) The further questioning into the study was that people who were HIV+, knowing or not knowing had a greater chance of catching and passing on another Sexually Transmitted Infections BESIDES and including HIV.
In for one—-HIV, you’re exposed to, potentially, others. So let’s flip the scripts, we won’t say who—-but of the 10:
- 3 are religiously on PRep, so even if they’ve come into contact with an HIV+ person, they are pretty much (not perfectly) but a good gamble not to get infected.
- But 4 of the other Black guys, insist on raw dogging it, barebacking, as the Receptive—-getting penetrated partner.
- Another 3 practice intermittent safe sex with condoms and PRep AND are more Versatile/Tops. They spend more of their sexual time not being the anal receptive Bottom to semen.
ASIDE
Who Is The CDC Trying to Teach HIV/STI Prevention to And Why
Statistically, the average/median is about 45% of humans practice safe sex constantly and religiously; 45% don't’ practice it at all, constantly; 10% waffle back and forth. The CDC and WHO and all of the agencies are truly aiming all of their campaigning and information to try and sway the 10%.
See, if you sway the 10%—-then statistically it tips the balance to 55% always practicing safe sex. If you can get the majority to do it—-it’s not that they’ll just consistently do it within that 55% population—-they’ll also turn to the 45% who don’t do it consistently and will halve those numbers. It’s really trying to recruit the unscripted to join the safe sex team
How Did The Whites Do?
Whites-Group 2 did something interesting—-they didn’t just have sex in Chelsea, which meant they didn’t have sex with men who might’ve had sex with men they’d had or were having sex with.
Group 2 as a whole were far more expansive in their sexual partnerships. So they were screwing guys from Brooklyn and the Lower East Side and Inwood and Queens and New Jersey and a dude from France and three dudes from California—-sometimes irrespective of race/culture/ethnicity.
Johnny, Bill, Dwayne, Gary, Ron, Fred, Teddy, Horace, Frank, Mike—-all were sexually active BUT they were diverse in their fucking, bluntly. They may have also had a higher degree of versatility—-switch hitting being penetrated and the penetrator. (Psycho-Sexual Point #2)
Just like our Black cohort 4 of them directly had sex with one another in some permutation (Johnny, Bill, Dwayne, Gary) within a span of time before, during and after long term relationships.
But Ron, Fred, Teddy, Horace, Frank, Mike had sex with:
- Stavros (Greek tourist)
- Nick (from Brooklyn is the only one who has sex with two of the 6, Ron and Fred)
- Raul (from the Bronx)
- Bill (from California)
- John (from Washington State)
- Richard (from Florida)
- Theodore (from Australia)
- Xiu (from Mainland China)
- Castro (from Manhattan is the only one who has sex with 2 of the four of Johnny, Bill, Dwayne, Gary—-thereby “entering” biologically into their cohort)
- Jamal (from Harlem who is part of the Black cohort but only has sex with Mike. They cross pollinate into each other’s cohort Grouping but they are both studious safe sex practitioners with PRep and condoms.)
- Amber (a transsexual from Pennsylvania)
- Joseph (from Texas and California)
Latinos-Group 3—-Juan, Hector, Jose, Juanito, Miguel, Theo, JoJo, Mario, Nico, David—-and this actually happened a couple of years ago in Washington Heights/Inwood—didn’t transmit HIV as much as Group 1, though they did so for the exact same reasons as Group 1 but those ass eating and pinga slurping amigos had increased the gonorrhea and syphilis and chlamydia rates by 300%—-they essentially would do specific sexual acts—-you know three amigos just eating each others asses clean but not penetration nor semen receptivity.
They had created what they thought were “safe sex” practices in analingus, fellatio, fingering and kissing.
Juan, Hector, Jose, Juanito, Miguel, Theo, JoJo, Mario, Nico, David none of them thought to wash tongues, mouths, fingers. (There was the ever so brief thought that it had to do with more Latino men not being circumcised—-but that actually both causes limited protection and greater infection based on the sexual act and/or being the receptive or penetrating partner.)
Where as the Blacks in Group # 1 may have cross-pollinated to most of their cohorts, the Latinos cross-pollinated to ALL of their cohorts—-just not always HIV, but definitely an STI.
(Psycho/Social Sexual Point#1 about Group #1)
Group # 1-What this sums to is Black MSM tend to practice safe sex semi-regularly—-about 50% or less of the time but let’s go to our above 10 guys, if half of them are already HIV+ by the time you get to them in the sex merry go round, you have a greater chance of infection.
Because HALF of your sexual community is statistically infected and you keep having sex with diagrammatically speaking of probabilities, the same “ten” men, who keep having sex with the same “ten” men.
ASIDE
In an interesting sub-read of how this occurs in two ways, one deliberate by Blacks and the second deliberate towards HIV+ folk.
Infections Through Self Sexual Segregation
Blacks fuck Blacks more than they fuck outside of their race group. Historically one can look at that yes, Blacks can go to outside cultures but if 40% of Blacks, nationwide (thereby 40% of Black LGBTSGL folk) are in forms of generational poverty—-they have been susceptible to segregation more than the other 60% who through resources—education, finances, social levels, mentorship, a partner moving them to a different level—-have more access to non-Black LGBTSGL sex partners.
That 60% though habitualized the same self segregation to sexual partners, not entirely, let’s say to a third. Bt that means that 70% or more of Black men who are LGBTSGL, sexually self segregate to only other Black partners.
Infection Zones Through Economic Segregation
When a person becomes HIV+, NYC and 4 other major cities around the USA, have had for years a program called HASA. One is immediately able to receive cash, food stamps, rent subsidy and health insurance. The initial design of this was when HIV metastasized into AIDs faster. Now the window rate for someone under immediate care is potentially 27+. But it can be as low as 3–5 years before AIDs onset in places like North Carolina, Florida, Texas, etc.
Which means one sure thing—-if you find out you’re HIV+ in any of the cities or towns that don’t have the immediate HASA program—-you hightail it to one of the five cities. Which increases dramatically the HIV+ population, particularly among LGBTSG: men; pointedly due to healthcare disparities based upon race, for Black and Latino men.
More HIV+ Black and Latino men are in the 5 cities than any place else.
Then the second affect to cause the higher infection rate effect occurs:
The concentration of HIV+ males (and females) occurs in Brooklyn—-Bed Stuy, Brownsville, Crown Heights; Manhattan: Harlem, Hells Kitchen, Washington Heights, Inwood; and the Bronx.
Why those places?
HASA allots $999 monthly for rent. You can not only find an apartment in those areas (mayhap with a roommate) for that amount BUT landlords in the other sections of the city have the right to refuse the HASA voucher/agreement. In the densely infected areas are where HASA refers you to buildings that are amenable.
Which means that HIV+ people, pointedly those who are Black and Latino are segregated into Black and Latino neighborhoods.
(Psycho/Social-Sexual Point #2)
(Psycho/Social-Sexual Point #3)
(Psycho/Social-Sexual Point #2)
Group 2, White men:
- tended to broaden geographically and culturally who they had sex with—so their sex groupings tended to include Asians, Blacks, Latinos, Laotians, foreigners, two Russians, a dozen men from out of state, two trans FTMs, a scientist from Greenland, and a naughty traveling German circus group who were made up of Arab refugees.
- White dudes are equal opportunity fuckers (or fuckees or fucked.). Such a broad sexual demographic meant that condemnation of sluts and man-whores is presumptive. Spreading the jam and the jelly tends to equate to more safety because you’re lowering who you have direct or secondary indirect contact with on the Fuck Merry Go Round.
Group # 3’s, the Latino's/Hispanics misleading thoughts about safe sex actions and how HIV is transmitted meant that they increased hundreds of fold——higher than the entire planet-—concentrated in WH and Inwood——for other sexually transmitted infections BUT once a person has one of the other 7 STIs, their percentage increases by 5x-7x to catch HIV because they lax on safe sex practices. In for a Herpes penny, in for an HIV infection pound.
Teaching This After Being Taught This By the CDC
I’m standing up in front of 80% Black men at a Black LGBTSGL agency teaching, after this training and results are given to me/the agency, to explain this scientifically tested knowledge and info, that potentially can save lives.
Ok, so I tell these Black and some Latino and one White guy (there’s always one White at Black LGBTSGL agencies) all the info, then I boil it down for them.
“Go fuck more White men. Safely. Statistically there is less of chance that they will be HIV+.”
Even I thought I was crazy announcing this, explaining it.
The Effects of Racism Are Multi-Fold And Everyone Is A Participant
Which though I’m being both sarcastic and sardonic is predicated on health related resources which is folded into overall resources culturally and racially. By that I mean, financial, intellectual, social, mental, emotional, educational, etc. privilege.
White men, White gay men, White men who have sex with men, still tend to have greater resources in the previous areas than Black or Latino men so they have better information about what truly constitutes safe sex (whether they practice it or not). Better information, clearer information, leads to better healthcare and better healthcare leads to being a healthier White guy who enjoys the soft, and hard loving, of other men.
Racial disparities have rippling effects through all strata and kinds of individuals in society, which hopefully current constructs of protest will help to shift because then guess who pays more in taxes for health services and things like HASA (HIV Welfare)?
Systemic poverty that HIV diagnosis tends to push Black and Latino folk into, which takes them out of being productive workers within this capitalistic grind and therefore become just Consumers but not Producers. But those who have the most resources are taxed, charged, nibbled at.
More resources, more taxes. And ironically a White man’s own prejudices and preferences to stay exclusively White tends to increase his likelihood of HIV exposure. It’s White men who are willing to move outside of their cultural field of origin physically and spatially have a greater roulette wheel of being missed by STIs (if they practice safe sex too.)
lol
Ain’t nature a natural ruinous bitch to human ideological insanity like racism?
And right now, similar to how Jim Crow and segregation has been far more expensive to White people than the prohibitive systems it instituted to Black/Latino people, White people are paying for all of this because of restrictions, strictures and systemic racist structures; it costs more to be racist than to be integrated—-ain’t that fucking hilarious? lol
Yet at the same time by practicing skin based racism as “preference” people of color are at higher STI risk.
It’s almost like Nature wants us to be integrated, huh?
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