Barebacking

The barebacking , literally “ride with vintage”, indicates the practice of not protected sexual relations, and by extension a polymorphic current preaching the worship and the claim of this form of sexual practice, as well as the worship of the Sperme.

Born as a practice asserted and wanted inside part of the gay community American, this practice tends to be propagated in Europe and finds followers more and more, at one time when the AIDS still makes devastations. Today, this phenomenon is very present in France and in particular in the young people.

French figures of the current

Among the figures of the homosexual movement asserting this practice publicly, one finds Guillaume Dustan, writer, and Erik Rémès, author of a book decried by part of the public: Serial Fucker, newspaper of a barebacker . The most known opponent with the bareback is Didier Lestrade, which devoted part of its test The End to this phenomenon. Other contributors and opponents find platform active on Internet sites bound for specific communities, such as the community hardware and sadomasochistic: this community is indeed very concerned because there exists commonly a confusion of kinds between the practices hardware and SM and the practice of the barebacking, practices which are not however absolutely dependant.

Aspects of the phenomenon

The barebacking consists in not being voluntarily protected, and with a partner who does not protect himself either. It is an act wanted, assumed, asserted by a certain number of homosexual. There does not exist strictly speaking of claims in favor of the barebacking among the heterosexuals. Admittedly, one saw well in 1987, in an emission of Mireille Dumas, " Low masques" , teaching to explain why it had become HIV positive after having had knowingly reports/ratios not protected with her companion, and actually the not protected relations are much more frequent in the heterosexuals than at the homosexual ones because of the less risks, but the word bareback appeared under gay culture answering, adapting the practices of collective sex not protected from this community, and not to indicate traditional love affairs. Thereafter, the studies on the bareback will seek all the causes which lead any individual not to be protected. The relapse will then indicate the irresponsible behaviors under influence of narcotics, the " négligences" (if they exist…), the barebacking will represent by opposition not only the practice at the risk but also the culture and the engagement of the political type (with the direction considered and argued class action suit) to even justify to promote the practices at the risk (barebacking prosélte) II the American origin of the word bareback should not make phenomenon an innovation of American origin. It is also advisable to explain why the word appeared in the United States. In the homosexual mediums, the refusal of the hood was very extremely at the beginning of the epidemic, during the time of blur surrounding the disease, and shared responsibility regulates it was essential in a tacit way. Then, with the lawsuits of contaminated blood and the judiciarisation of the transmissions, those which wanted to continue and to assert their practices without hood in spite of the risks had to adapt to the legal risk by visibilisant their practice openly instead of leaving it tacit and restricted with the " milieu" gay: the bareback thus appeared in the United States, where the AIDS struck in first in the Western countries, and where the law punished the reports/ratios at the risks not " éclairés". The posted barebacker thus has in theory a statute clear, militant, irreproachable with the eyes of justice, which explains why the bareback is developed more in the countries which penalize the AIDS (the United States) that in those where the legislation remained unchanged without creation of offense specific to the AIDS (France).

Reactions

The barebacking is condemned by certain fight associations against the AIDS, certain homosexual associations. But the AIDS touches in priority the barebackers, and they for a long time fled associations which denounce them, i.e. which the preventive associative medium is today without any catch and dialog with the people most concerned. From where total recastings of the policies to be followed from now on, as one observes today in the United States. In France, the division and the reversals of the strategies of associations appear for example in the withdrawal of Didier Lestrade d' Act-up or the dissociation of the preventive platform " Warning".

The polemic - Summary

The barebackers support that the port of the “hoods” prevents them from being in erection and/or harms the quality of the feelings. They associate with the practices not protected the feeling to be given completely to their (S) partner (S) and have a large erotisation of the report/ratio not protected. They leave the principle that each one is free to practice sexuality as he hears it and than he is responsible for his health to trade by itself. While their opponents reproach them for promoting a jouissive design of the sex and to endanger the life of the others with the transmission risks of diseases such as the Sida.

According to the “spokesperson” of the barebacking in France, the hostility of associations of claims in favor of the homosexual ones would be primarily justified by the will to give a smooth image of the homosexual community so that the claims in favor of the Homosexual marriage and the possibility of adoption of children can succeed more easily. They object that if the phenomenon of homosexuality lost any subversive character, the thing would hardly any more present of interest.

This motivation is obviously disputed by the whole of associations concerned, the argument employed appearing very largely misleading (the " marriage homosexeuel" evoked, largely polemical concept, playing only the part of smoke screen): only fundamental motivations being those to dam up pandemia within the community, to limit the number of new contaminations by the virus of HIV and the others STI and MST which is they also in strong recrudescence, to reduce the number of surcontaminations of HIV positives which lead to uncontrolled changes and immaitrisables various stocks of the virus, the whole in a medical and saving aspect obvious. (It what the barebackers answer that their visibility is liberator and their as useless prohibition and without effect as that of homosexuality, except wasting the life of concerned without modifying that of the others: if people put the hood, how would a problem cause them those which do not put it, the meeting will not take place quite simply? If they hope to change the sexuality of the barebackers, that these homosexual starts by learning how to become hétéro) Enfin, the barebackers also rétorquent that if the MST increased between 1995 and 2005, the seroconversions with the HIV on the contrary regressed in spite of the revival of the bareback, under the preventive effect of the trithérapies which do not make disappear the transmission risk but reduce it very appreciably. The viral loads are a key element of the evolution of the epidemic, and the cases of transmission more often come from the individuals not followed médicalement, without treatment, than of the barebackers proselytes perfectly to the fact of the treatments. To stigmatize the bareback or worse, to defame it, then result in moving away from tracking the people at the risks, and cause silence, screening, and thus the fraud: on the whole, a bad preventive management which does not change anything with the practices but degrades quality of life as well barebackers as those which are protected, because of the tense atmosphere.

Statistics - questions legal

Various statistics were published which are drawn from questionnaires diffused by the gay media in order to quantify the phenomenon.

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