Why is it that gay bareback porn is a special case where adults are treated like children? Politicians have raved about violent movies and video games over their feared effects on kids, and some rating systems have been put in place that are very often ignored. Straight porn has no massive stigma against condom-free porn either, and straight people aren't exactly immune to HIV.
I'm just wondering why the anti-barebacking movement achieved such massive success where so many other movements failed. Is there any hard evidence that people emulate unsafe behavior or at least behavior presented as unsafe that they see in porn, or did this movement arise simply based off of the belief in the "monkey see, monkey do" effect.
Perhaps it's just because porn producers are excessively responsible members of the community, and using condoms doesn't hurt porn as much as nonviolence would hurt video games. Perhaps it's also because the community had a lot more people actually dying than those other movements, and it is a much more cohesive community than America at large.
It's actually an admirable movement in the fact that it has made safe sex the rule and barebacking the exception. The fact that someone has to look for bareback porn to find bareback porn is a stunning victory for the movement. Isn't is accepted that barebacking is riskier and accepted that companies that produce it take more precautions. What more can the anti-barebacking movement hope to achieve. Complete annihilation seems unreasonable, unrealistic, and I can't see it actually increasing the incidence of unsafe sex. Perhaps this is a movement that has achieved its mission but doesn't know how to stop fighting. It seems that all that energy could be funneled into a cause with better returns.