the study that this figure came from actually surveyed gay men from the very bars and clubs that would become ground zero for AIDS just a few years later.

it found 43% of them had 500 or more sexual partners, and 28% had 1,000 or more.

the average normie was (and is) kept under the impression that HIV was easier to contract than it really was because in reality the amount of high-risk sex the average gay man had to engage in to have even a SLIGHT risk of getting HIV was mind-boggling and no one would have sympathized with them after finding out.

— pagliacci the hated (@Slatzvish)

I know a dude who contracted it from his second sexual partner in life (he was 25 at the time). The guy was basically a friend with benefits who, on the side, had a huge amount of casual sex. That's how he got infected and then passed it on to my acquaintance. So yeah, sometimes it really is just bad luck, cases like that do exist. But overall, the VAST majority of people infected are gay men who lead an extremely high-risk sexual lifestyle. We're talking about places like the Lab.oratory club in Berlin, where people go and have anal sex with 20 different men in a single night, not to mention practices like fisting and similar acts that would make an average straight people throw up. And if a Berlin gay guy (plus tons of tourists) visits a place like that once or twice a week… Do your math. All the gay saunas and bathhouses, gay hotels, discos, nudist beaches, festivals etc. everything revolves around having sex with a massive number of strangers. An ordinary promiscuous heterosexual can't even begin to imagine what promiscuity looks like in the gay community. The realities are simply incomparable. The gay community's greatest achievement is that they have been able to sell that extremely vanilla image of themselves.

— Borgia The Pope (@Borgialord)

If an HIV+ man penetrates an HIV- bottom who uses no protection, the chance of contracting the disease is still only 1/70. A bottom using no protection can easily have sex hundreds or thousands of times before his chance of contracting HIV is high. Makes you think

— Jude (@judejon_)