Monday, July 31, 2006
Explaining Andrew Sullivan
I wrote these lines in a posting on Sunday: Now they have the ability to psychoanalyze the President. Sullivan needs to look to himself about alternative reality, I think, first.
I've been asked to explain that. OK. Andrew Sullivan was born in 1963. He was diagnosed as having the HIV virus in 1993 (at age 30). I don't believe he contracted it before he was 20, in 1983, by which time everyone was well aware of how gay men passed on the disease and what it took to avoid it. Which means he contracted it by failing or refusing to protect himself during sex with men. I'm bolstered in this belief by news that Sullivan has in the past decade been online offering and soliciting unprotected sex on a "bareback" web site. He defends his action saying he would only have sex with other HIV positive men.
So there is a deadly sexually transmitted disease out there and a condom offers a lot of protection and Sullivan foregoes it and catches the always fatal disease. Who actually was avoiding reality?
I've been asked to explain that. OK. Andrew Sullivan was born in 1963. He was diagnosed as having the HIV virus in 1993 (at age 30). I don't believe he contracted it before he was 20, in 1983, by which time everyone was well aware of how gay men passed on the disease and what it took to avoid it. Which means he contracted it by failing or refusing to protect himself during sex with men. I'm bolstered in this belief by news that Sullivan has in the past decade been online offering and soliciting unprotected sex on a "bareback" web site. He defends his action saying he would only have sex with other HIV positive men.
So there is a deadly sexually transmitted disease out there and a condom offers a lot of protection and Sullivan foregoes it and catches the always fatal disease. Who actually was avoiding reality?
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:43 PM 
