even legitimately useful sex safety advice is always phrased as an imperative to health, never do this always do that you must not blahblahblah. same with drug use harm reduction stuff, they can never just say yknow this substance is associated with these risks and you will increase them if you xyx and can decrease them if you pqr, it's always written under the presumption that the reader's risk tolerance is exactly the same as the author's and so it would be simply unthinkable to aim advice at anyone who is willing to risk something you're personally not, because of course this is not about providing the information for others to rationally adjudicate their own personal priorities and needs but merely a matter of educating the reckless masses so they too may live according to the objective truth of your own personal risk assessment. they tip their hands because it's not like anyone talks about driving a car or getting exposed to respiratory diseases this way, imagine if mainstream sources were constantly written like you're insane and stupid for deciding you're willing to incur a potential crash because you want to go on a trip or like you obviously would never exist in a room unmasked if only you knew what the flu can do -- these activities are invisible, it's the socially stigmatised nature of sex or drugs or whatever that render them specifically problematised in this way. read some samuel delany about it idfk
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