Ignorant, or the tak ape attitude, has reached a climax. Condom does not guarantee a clean slate. More are infected daily. Girls are found pregnant still. The rubber is only a tool. It is the practice that counts. Putting on the wrong side doesn’t help. Putting on after penetrative sex doesn’t help too. It is either incorrect use or too late altogether. Pre-cum or that fluid that releases during foreplay, may also contain sex bugs. On top of all the efforts “raw sex”, “barebacking”, “sticky hump”, “free & easy” is getting popular. The “touch N go” sex has gotten more attention lately. A friend proudly proclaimed he had bareback with this hot guy before, and as anal as I am, I always probe the less desirable (and perhaps the less expected) question of all, ‘aren’t you afraid of getting infected?’ He simply smiled bigger as if he has the best answer to my question, ‘on the last check I am still clean’. To make things worse he smirked after that. Initially I had my usual speech about the sex bugs prepared, however that day I didn’t share it. I believe I myself have lost hope of thinking that people will more responsible and there might be a possibility of reducing (if not curb) the spread of sex bugs. I even come to a point where I secretly wish that one day the control pills for the sex bugs will cease working, or a bigger sex bug will exist (which is quite possible with in swapping of sex bugs amongst random people who play unsafely). I know it is ill thinking. I also know it can very well be reality in the near future… if we continually to live too freely.
Below are some works done by The One Academy in collaboration with Malaysian AIDS Council to creat an information material on safer sex and injecting. The project has produced interactive games, motion graphics, posters, animations, and illustrative comics. I had the opportunity to work with them on this project which has sustained my passion and hope. It is desirable to see this project able to reach people in a larger scale, in fun info-tainment manner, and only then hopefully we might live to see the slightest change in people’s behavior. You can obtain a copy of the comic in English or Malay version from Malaysian AIDS Council, or if you prefer, you can get it from me (plus I will get a chance to practice my cob-web speech). Wait no more, safer action starts today, and by you.
