"...a gay young man today has a 50 per cent chance of being HIV positive by the time he reaches his late 40s."

From an article on 365gay.com:

...a gay young man today has a 50 per cent chance of being HIV positive by the time he reaches his late 40s.

Can this possibly be true? Is it still really this bad? I have so many (idiot) friends who have unprotected sex, anonymous sex and promiscuity problems that it scares me. I like to watch bareback videos, but the thought of doing it in real life scares the hell out of me. I like to watch horror movies, too, but I would never go out and chainsaw someone's intestines. Porn is fantasy. Real life is not? Why don't gay men get this yet?

Well, like everything else in life, it's more complicated than that.

"These are guys that are the products of a virulently homophobic culture, who've been viciously stigmatized because of HIV for 25 years. They believe being gay means death. Being gay means getting AIDS. Being gay means dying early. This is what's supposed to happen.

"They would even say they want to get it over with. Gift givers would offer to end the waiting."

That scares the hell out of me. Some gay men are just waiting to die because it's somehow part of their fate? I shiver.