Rates of sex with more than one partner also rose, and of those engaged in the riskiest practices, 68 percent did not know whether their partner was infected with the AIDS virus. Yesterday, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that among men who have anal sex with other men, the portion of men who did so without condoms rose to 39 percent in 1997, from 30 percent in 1994. New research from San Francisco confirms that an increasing number of gay men are having sex with multiple partners, and without the protection of condoms. "More than anger, I find it heartbreaking and tragic," said Daniel Zingale, executive director of AIDS Action of Washington, D.C., the nation's most powerful AIDS lobby. Even so, many veteran AIDS activists, who championed the "safer sex" ethic that has checked the spread of the AIDS virus since the mid-1980s, are disturbed by the trend. Only a tiny fraction of gay men are believed Four of those must be HIV negative, but the fifth is already infected with the AIDS virus. Web sites are offering lists of "extreme sex" party sites where the prospect of becoming infected or of infecting others is part of the erotic allure.Īt a "Russian roulette party" set for next month in Houston, a posting seeks three healthy men to have sex with five other men. Now a fringe element, linked by the Internet, is taking it even further.
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