With 1993 being over a quarter of a century ago, are we still stuck in 1993 in how we view HIV and If we get POZZED up? I have found what i think is a remarkable lack of understanding of what has happened in the 25+ years of medical progress that this posting notes. When my doc called me in 2000 to tell me that i was Poz, yes he called me on the phone, was that i was not going to die from HIV, as the rapid development of ARV’s even 7 years from 1993, would make the disease controllable. That he thought that diabetes was much more difficult to deal with as well as some forms of heart disease and Cancer. Add, essentially, another 20 years of scientific advancement, one would think the understanding of hiv would be well advanced from the 90’s... but how many guys having permiscuous sex won’t have sex with an out poz guy? How many people still think of HIV as a death sentence? I saw a guy online who was on prep, and i approached him, and saw his interest. I pointed out my status and suddenly, he didnt trust the prep he was taking, the drug that he would be taking if he were POZ, but using now to prevent him being infected wasnt enough to trust when it came to dealing with having casual sex with a poz guy like me.(not a problem really, it was an opportubity to really find out what a prep person might be thinking.) and there was this guy who catfished me by saying how much he wanted me to infect him with my poz cum only to then call me a MURDERER when i indicated i may be willing. (Again, not a problem for me to deal with, the issue has more to do with my catfish friend who clearly has some deep emotional problems.) Generally speaking, ive never been happier sexually, never have a problem finding open guys who want to fuck raw, and enjoy being poz and who i am because through my experience know what bring Poz is, while those who are not poz seem to not be willing to learn what NEG means, and how to really reduce risk if you want to even engauge in that stuff. To the rest of us, the spoils which are pretty damn good, make for realky hot nasty sex, and at my age, making uo for those early years where i was cheated out of what the sexual revolution should have been... oh well it only affected me about 20 years until i turned HIV +, and i now its the straw that puts the incredible into the gay sexual life i always wanted!