via Positive Lite (Canada)
Interview with Len Tooley, an HIV-negative gay guy who is taking pre-exposure prophylaxis. He works in Toronto as a gay men’s health promoter, HIV educator, tester and counsellor. In the first of three interviews about being on PrEP, he discusses his decision to go on it.
Excerpt:
Interview with Len Tooley, an HIV-negative gay guy who is taking pre-exposure prophylaxis. He works in Toronto as a gay men’s health promoter, HIV educator, tester and counsellor. In the first of three interviews about being on PrEP, he discusses his decision to go on it.
Excerpt:
I’m not perfect – even if I wish I was.
And I have to admit, I haven’t had perfect condom use throughout my life. I’ve managed to stay HIV-negative for quite a while, but this was partly a combination of “responsible” condom use and – when “not-so-responsible” – luck.
Those moments when I had done something that I knew might put me at higher risk often led to a lot of anxiety. Not constant, overwhelming anxiety, but one that prevented me from feeling good (meaning, guilt free and shameless) about the awesome sex that I had had.
Read the whole thing on Positive Lite.
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