Mash-up Music Video and Diatribe on "Gay Boy Birth Control"

by MAGPIE SUDDENLY

CREDITS:
Text: Adapted from “My Life on PrEP” by JAKE SOBO

Music mashup: “Smells Like Stayin’ Alive” Juan Martinez/Nirvana/Adam Freeland
By KOBALT


THE KEY

to HOOKING UP online HAS ALWAYS BEEN A
Tricky game You gotta show YOUR BEST ASSETS

To TURN ON

Your audience
Without looking like a DESPERATE SLUT

Never mind that MOST OF US Online Are

a)somewhat DESPERATE

and

b)EXTREMELY promiscuous

it’s all about the FANTASY when it comes to CHATTING online
I favor HONESTY OVER Fantasy
A fact that has COST ME SEX

On a rREGULAR BASIS

I’ve never been ASHAMED of my SEX life or my DESIRES for many guys MY HONESTY is a
DEAL BREAKER TOO MANY GUYS out there are deeply ASHAMED of their sex life

it’s
EMBARRASSING
for them
they’d rather  PRETEND that we’re all just GOOD BOYS who  NEVER hook up

but make an  ‘EXCEPTION’
or two…
(or three…)
(or 3,000….)
on our road to MONGAMY when I first started TAKING TRUVADA as PrEP
(which my friends call
GAY BOY
BIRTH CONTROL)

I thought
SOMEHOW
That it would HELP ME CUT THROUGH SOME
Of the BULL SHIT OUT THERE
I could FINALLY HAVE

The kind of
SEX I WANTED
Without SHAME
Or  REGRET
Or GETTING HIV

I supposed I was NAÏVE
Just a few DAYS  AGO
Some guy online
Was Complaining
That only  WHORES
Were lining up to Take TRUVADA

He said:
“Having a THERE’S-A-PILL-FOR-THAT
Attitude…
…is absolutely
DISGUSTING”

I found myself FACE-to-FACE
With the same kind of
SHAMING And  PRETENDING That has PLAGUED HIV PREVENTION
Since the  BEGINNING
This approach to SEX Is just ANOTHER VERSION
Of the
SEXUAL SHAME
You see online

It’s the same
STIGMA
That leads MANY GAY MEN
To
NOT GET TESTED
To NOT DISCUSS
HIV with sex partners
To pretend like onlyWHORES Get HIV …which NEVER includes YOU or ME
Or the guy who CAME in my ASS LAST NIGHT
It’s what’s DRIVING  PLENTY Of INFECTIONS

TRUVADA as PrEP
Can help STOP THOSE INFECTIONS

But dangerously MISINFORMED HATERS SHAME
Gay men Into PRETENDING like THEY DON’T
NEED IT That they are just
“GOOD BOYS” WHO MAKE ‘EXCEPTIONS”
every now and again
taking
TRUVADA as PrEP
doesn’t make me A WHORE
I refuse to feel
DIRTY
Or
ASHAMED
Of the sex I have

TRUVADA as PrEP
Helps keep ne HIV-negative
IT CAN KEEP YOU
HIV-negative too
START  ASKING
For it

LET’S QUIT
The WHORE-BAITING
And start the REAL WORK Of PREVENTION

Remember:
YOU HAVE THE KEY
To your
SEXUAL HEALTH
PrEP
PrOTECT
YOUrSELF