The Free Love Bus Hasn’t Stopped Here In Years

A comment here on ErosBlog from someone who’s had no sexual contact since the start of the Covid pandemic caused me to reflect on the AIDS epidemic as experienced by, for example, rural teens who didn’t know (didn’t know they knew) any gay people.

There was a cruel window in the early 1980s during which it was possible to pass through puberty steeped in the delicious propaganda of the sexual revolution, with its alluring promises of easy sex and promiscuity, only to watch in horror during your teen years as the AIDS crisis annihilated it all. Free love (and all that) got buried in in fearful and grudgingly-pair-bonded layers of latex while we watched, and before we ever got our first adult taste of pussy or cock or whatever we were wanting to lick and suck and fuck.

Of course, even acknowledging this feels churlish, petty, and self-absorbed now. For the obvious reason that this recollection of frustrated horny teen angst pales to insignificance when compared to all the lives literally destroyed by AIDS.

So why mention it now? Because of the Covid thing. I won’t say it hasn’t been covered in think pieces on smart websites, but I don’t think we’ve fully apprehended or begun to count the costs of all the intimate isolation that resulted from Covid and continues among people who are still trying to avoid new courses of infection every third month. What’s our culture going to look like when we have an entire generation whose dating and hooking up and casual fucking was constrained in novel ways by a respiratory pandemic? That’s going to express itself culturally, it has to. I just don’t know — none of us know — what to expect from it.

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Safe Sex After Covid

Have you been wondering When Is It Safe to Have Sex after COVID? Scientific American has got you covered:

Nelson Bennett, a urologist at Northwestern University School of Medicine, and Justin Dubin, a urology fellow specializing in male sexual medicine and infertility at Northwestern University School of Medicine, both say that while they hope to see more research in this area, the risk of transmitting COVID via sexual activity is “very low.”

The virus has been detected in stool samples of patients with COVID-19, and more studies are needed to determine whether one might spread the virus during anal sex or such sexual activities as rimming (placing the mouth on the anus).

Even after 10 days and even after vaccination, “there is some risk of viral transmission via air or saliva,” says A.J. te Velthuis, a virology and molecular biology expert at Princeton University. But if you’ve tested negative after a lateral flow assay — a rapid antigen test — that risk is limited, and “sexual activity should then also be no problem,” he adds.

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According to NASTAD, the National Coalition of STD Directors, you should make sure three things have happened after you have recovered from COVID before you resume sexual activity with a household partner: no fever for three days without the use of fever-reducing medications; improvement of other symptoms; and the passage of 10 days since your symptoms began.

Michael Mina, an expert on rapid tests and chief science officer at EMed, says that if you had COVID but then posted two negative rapid tests 24 hours apart, you’re “very, very unlikely” to pass the virus either through kissing or by having sex. “I’d argue it is not even necessary to wait the full 10 days,” Mina says.

There is, of course, much more nuance and detail in the full article.

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Bend Over For Your Shot!

It’s a good thing the Covid vaccination isn’t under the control of aggressive young anime doctors:

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