I created 'How I Roll' to strengthen current efforts to stop the spread of HIV and STDs. Whether bacterial or viral, these diseases are easily preventable yet still take a toll on our lives.
The mission of this site is an effort to stop the spread of HIV and STDs by:
• promoting condom use
• providing information
• opening a dialogue about prevention methods.
The Inspiration for ‘How I Roll’
I was getting an HIV test one day when my counselor at the SF Department of Health asked questions about my sexual history. Piecing together the last year I realized a disturbing trend. First was that I fucked a lot of guys (ok not so disturbing).
And second, more and more guys were asking me to bareback. Truthfully, the only place I felt safe from this pressure was at work on a porn set. (shrug) How ironic right?!
So then I began to wonder why our attitudes toward condom use had started to relax? Especially now when the number of new HIV infections is on the rise.
At the same time I’d be blind not to notice a similar trend within the porn industry. Bareback porn is selling like crazy! So if we're watching guys have unprotected sex for entertainment, are we also having more unprotected sex? Are we willing to take risks because we think it’s hotter? Are some negative guys only hooking up with other negative guys because we feel its safe way to bareback? And how often are we testing these days anyway? I mean, how do you really know who’s negative?
All of these questions led me to ask myself the big question:
"What could I do to raise awareness not just in my industry, but also in the community?" And so the 'How I Roll' Campaign was born.
Yeah, I work in an adult industry, and as adults we reserve the right to decide for ourselves what prevention methods are working or not working for us. But I don’t believe it’s ok to simply say that and then absolve myself of any responsibility for the work I help to produce. So to go one step further, I created this site to present men with the facts about HIV and STDs. Armed with knowledge, I hope we can better take care of ourselves and each other.
I am not here to wag my finger in your face. You have figure out 'How You Roll'.
If nothing else I am here to remind us all that safer and hotter sex is still happening…
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The mission of this site is an effort to stop the spread of HIV and STDs by:
• promoting condom use
• providing information
• opening a dialogue about prevention methods.
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Design: Steve Cruz
Promotion: Steve Cruz
Facts and Information: STOP AIDS Project
Photos: Kent Taylor
Copy Editor:
Nathaniel Grey
Concept Inspiration:
Tom Kennedy
Resources: InSPOT.org
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