Risky Sex in the City

BILLINGSGATE JOURNAL (Dateline New York City)

BULLETIN: Something is desparately wrong in Gotham City. When the NYC Department of Health issued a warning last week that they were examining a new and more virulent strain of HIV/AIDS virus that resists all current drug treatments, all hell broke loose. Doctors who issued the warnings are now defending the Department from critics who claim that these warnings unfairly inhibit sexual practices between consenting male homosexuals.

Please carefully read the next paragraph and repeat after me that you think something is morally wrong with this behavior:

From the New York Times it was reported that that "Two male contacts are cooperating with investigators and are among hundreds of men with whom the New York City man told health officials he has had sex in recent weeks while using crystal methamphetamine. The New York man who sparked the investigation is cooperating with city health officials but apparently does not know the names of all his partners."

Does anyone besides BILLINGSGATE find it unsettling that in a extremely personal encounter between one man and hundreds of consenting men, all apparently who fell head over heels for him, this unnamed man cannot remember the names of all his partners. Damn it. It's always the devil in the details. And I thought crystal meth helped one to clarify his thoughts.

Dr. Thomas Frieden, the commissioner of the NYC Department of Health said that too much risky sex takes place in which methamphetamine use plays a role. I guess that dispels my thesis that meth makes you think clearer.

Concerning the uproar that came from offended sodomites who felt restricted by having to practice safe sex, Dr. Frieden was forced to counter their squeals of protest by saying that "anyone who suggests that the Department issued the warning to scare the public into behaving more responsibly was absolutely wrong."

Evidently the warning was issued in order to give meth heads who practice risky sex a tap on the shoulder and a "tut tut." For the unlucky hundreds who stood in line to have anonymous sex with this guy, better luck next time.