If you’re a dude (or you’re a gal who’s about to have an assignation with such a guy) who can’t keep it in your pants, go grab yourself a free state-issue condom. And here’s a map to help you.
Yes, Louisiana participates in an HIV (and, more generally, sexually transmitted and infectious disease) prevention program that, among other things, tosses loads of free condoms to nonprofits and businesses to distribute. For example, feeling randy in Bossier City but concerned you’ll pick up a gift that keeps on giving? Check in to any of four motels on East Texas St. and not only can you get a room for the deed (maybe even by the hour), but a free state-issue wrapper as well.
According to the most recent numbers, the state spent $3 million of federal money on the broader program in the latest year available; how much of this went to condoms and if there were state taxpayer dollars at work is unknown. And, before accusations arise about how this is a looney leftist politicized waste of money, it is a Republican Pres. Donald Trump Administration initiative.
Those adjectives aside, it is a waste, because in reference to HIV transmission it inefficiently reduces that. You wouldn’t know that from the bleating emanating from some pro-homosexual activists upon learning that the Louisiana Department of Health has shifted policy to change the outlets where the freebies are distributed, shifting more towards official channels such as state agency sites and away from distributions ending up in the likes of barber shops.
The activists lament that this will cut down on casual, if not impulse, acquisition due to reduced access. And that’s precisely the tactic to use to reduce the incidence of HIV.
While politically incorrect but devastatingly accurate, in America HIV is a disease primarily propagated and disseminated by male homosexuals’ sexual behavior, practitioners of which make up a tiny proportion of the entire population yet dominate in those having it. That outcome and why it came to that has long been known, brilliantly summarized by activist, author (and now filmmaker) Gabriel Rotello in his book Sexual Ecology.
To summarize, AIDS came about because of cultural mores (risk-taking) that developed in the couple of decades prior to the actual discovery of the disease. Until the mid-20th century, the vast majority of male homosexuals preferred trysts with heterosexual males or established long-term relationships with each other. But with the sexual revolution of the 1960s, the idea grew that there was a “gay lifestyle” to achieve that demanded voluminous encounters, preferably extremely casual if not anonymous. This high frequency of and often physically destructive copulation that resulted provided the perfect recipe first to develop the disease in humans and then its spread, a trend which continues to this day.
Thus, in this culture trying to amplify condom use is like throwing a bucket of water on a bonfire. It will prove somewhat effective, but not nearly as effective as cultural change that reduces the intensity of the fire.
That, hopefully, is what the LDH shift in reducing contractor distribution is all about. In response, one activist alleged that “HIV [incidence] is going to shoot through the roof.” No, it already is way too high among homosexual males, but keep shouting that from the rooftops.
Because that’s the kind of alarm needed to be raised to get through to those indulging in the culture of risk. Get that subset of males to stop their high rates of varied homosexual copulation, and their being in situations where they desire condoms and HIV incidence and transmission will decrease more than it ever could by condom provision as freely as California hands out mail-in ballots. If we have to spend our tax dollars on handing them out, handing out fewer and in a manner less encouraging of risky behavior is a better strategy to accomplishing the end result of much reduced HIV.
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