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Bezzy communities gay meaningful connections with others living with chronic conditions. Join Bezzy on the web or mobile app. Here are the answers to your burning questions and a few considerations to make before hopping on the bareback bandwagon. When the term first appeared in the mids in the gay press, it referred to intentional condom-less anal sex among gay men living with HIV.

A short time later, the definition changed, and it was primarily used to talk about people with penises having anal sex with other people with penises without using a condom. This includes HIV, which can be undetectable. More on that in a bit. Unless you skip partnered sexual activity all together, barrier methods, like condomsare the most gay way to prevent the transmission of STIs.

Pleasure, for starters! The feel of their skin on yours, and their mouth and tongue on, well, everything, just feels good. This is thanks to the heat, wetness, and friction. NealMPH, a resident sexologist for sexual hygiene company Royal. There are some other potential benefits to sex without a barrier, like bonding and intimacy.

Making the conscious choice to have barrier-free sex with a partner can give you a bare physical connection and up the intimacy factor, bringing you closer. Skin-to-skin contact and even contact with seminal fluids and genital secretions have been linked to improved mood, reduced stress and depression, and a stronger immune system.

When seminal fluid makes contact with reproductive tissues, it initiates a controlled inflammatory response. This affects reproduction function to increase the chances for producing a healthy pregnancy. An open and honest convo about risks, expectations, and boundaries before going sans barrier is in order.

If sex with other partners is on the table, committing to barrier use with other partners is the safest way to go bareback with each other. Unless neither of you has ever engaged in any type of sex act, then STIs are a possibility and a talk about status and testing needs to happen bare saying buh-bye to barriers. Manualoraland dry humping in the buff can do it, too.

Remember that you both have the right to change your minds about ditching barrier protection at any time, regardless of the results. Viral load is the amount of HIV in the blood, anal mucus, gay semen. Preventive medication is available for certain STIs and bare way to have safer sex without a barrier. There are also vaccines available that can help you prevent hepatitis B and HPV.

There are different HPV strains and almost everyone will get at least one type during their lifetime.

How to Have Safer “Bareback” Sex Without a Condom

Depending on the type, HPV can cause genital warts and different types of cancer, including cervicalpenileand throat cancers. You have a few options to choose from, each one with its own cost and effectiveness. No birth control method is percent effective.