Monkeypox Etc..

[RandyVue]

Has Monkeypox changed how you feel about the business or how you conduct business?

[Jarrod_Uncut]

Not really because as far as I know: it’s not a “sex workers” disease any more than it’s a “gay” disease. 
 

I feel if someone leaves or reduces biz because of whatever the latest virus in circulation comes up: then they should hold the same standards to hookup apps or other gay spaces as well. But as far as I know: people are still frequenting those platforms as well.

 

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

MP has changed (or, reinforced) how I feel about the community, not my business.

A social media generation is using it as a way to get famous, to get their dramatic story out and get views. 

This is not the '80s AIDS crisis.  People actively and quickly recover from this.  The comparison is insulting.

The community has always needed to learn that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

[Jamie21]

On 9/3/2022 at 3:58 AM, RandyVue said:

Has Monkeypox changed how you feel about the business or how you conduct business?

No. Get vaccinated. Carry on. 

[+ Pensant]

It makes me nervous, of course. I’ve only seen a long-time provider who’s as cautious as I am about these things. After getting the vaccine, I’ll feel much more comfortable. Perhaps I’ll get it in Lisbon.

[Jamie21]

11 hours ago, Pensant said:

Perhaps I’ll get it in Lisbon.

Pox or vaccine? 

[Kevin Slater]

13 hours ago, Pensant said:

Perhaps I’ll get it in Lisbon.

2 hours ago, Jamie21 said:

Pox or vaccine? 

Or just nookie?

Kevin Slater

[+ Pensant]

11 hours ago, Jamie21 said:

Pox or vaccine? 

Pox 

[Jamie21]

8 hours ago, Pensant said:

Pox 

Portuguese Pox probably 

[arnemgreeves]

On 9/3/2022 at 9:19 AM, Jarrod_Uncut said:

Not really because as far as I know: it’s not a “sex workers” disease any more than it’s a “gay” disease. 
 

I feel if someone leaves or reduces biz because of whatever the latest virus in circulation comes up: then they should hold the same standards to hookup apps or other gay spaces as well. But as far as I know: people are still frequenting those platforms as well.

 

tbf as a sex worker, bodily contact makes it more likely to transmit. that said, it's not deadly, and doesn't leave any major scarring. i don't get why they are having vaccines for it if it's not that dangerous. 

[Jarrod_Uncut]

18 minutes ago, arnemgreeves said:

tbf as a sex worker, bodily contact makes it more likely to transmit. that said, it's not deadly, and doesn't leave any major scarring. i don't get why they are having vaccines for it if it's not that dangerous. 

Well it’s the pictures of cases that seem to be causing so much alarm. We as gays are very attuned to our appearance and stigma.  Sometimes not being deadly and not leaving scars doesn’t mean that you won’t be out of work, looking ill, or unable to have sex for 2-3 maybe even a whole month.

However, being a sex worker still isn’t really much more of a factor than it would be for anyone else active in the MSM community. 

It’s not like, you’re less likely to get it if you don’t exchange money for it. And it’s not like I’m having clients round the clock either. 
 

If you take a typical single, gay, attractive, under 60 (because I know many sex parties and orgies are usually the guys in their 40s and 50s) who’s living in the city and has their face plastered on every hookup app: I can guarantee you that the amount of miscellaneous sex partners they have,  would put an escort to SHAME. 

[Jamie21]

1 hour ago, Jarrod_Uncut said:

I can guarantee you that the amount of miscellaneous sex partners they have,  would put an escort to SHAME. 

When most of the sex you have is work sex you’re less inclined to go to a sex party.