Jack Andy Killing Construct Vol 4: The Politics of Fear

It’s been very disturbing to this writer to hear about gay society’s reaction to communicable diseases. It’s been a history of repetition lately that dates back to the 80s and it is troublesome enough to say that we’ve gotten no better at managing our fear based on living our best lives. As gay men, sex is a part of our lives, and generations upon generations of the LGBTQ movement have fought for one thing only: our rights to live our gay lives, have our gay sex, and share our great gay gifts with the world. We have fought for the right to have our own places of communion, bars, dance clubs, and even our still persecuted sex parties.

 

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We are the gay community, we like seedy sex, we like it with more than one partner, we like it in bathroom stalls, the gym, the car, at work, in darkrooms, the park, and hotel orgies. Nothing pleases me more than developing a connection with a group of sexy, sweaty, horny, like-minded gay men of all shapes and sizes. As American gays, we are without a doubt the most responsible demographic when it comes to sexual health as well, most of us who are super sexual are tested no less than a month to three months. We are always looking out for symptoms to get tested immediately. There are even clinics out there that will preemptively give a gay man, and their partner, treatment who is familiar with the symptoms of all common STIs, like the Men’s Health Clinic on Santa Monica Boulevard. We are the first to get vaxxed. We keep ourselves informed based on our history of pandemics, and the almost direct persecution we get from them. We have the sense to know that when something happens involving sickness in this country we are almost always first in the spotlight. We can’t help it, we’re popular.

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Out of the three largest we’ve lived in, two of the biggest ones were placed squarely on our shoulders, the HIV crisis, and now MonkyPox. Out of the two, global leaders' reactions were the same, they called for abstinence and said gay men were at the root of the problem because for some reason we can’t seem to contain our raging sex lives. Now the World Health Organization publicly and irresponsibly said if gay men had sex less this wouldn’t be as big of a problem, and the government has followed suit treating MonkyPox as an STI first with the gay community under the spotlight.

What a crock of shit.

We all know that when they preached about the dangers of sex during the HIV pandemic it helped nobody. It's a human being's nature to crave sex. It’s part of us. I know I’ve told everyone I get it wherever and whenever I can with a consensual loving partner. I will lock a bathroom stall and take 5 minutes to breed a hot hole and I don’t care if I’m at a 5-star restaurant. I wear zippered jeans down the back and I usually have lube and poppers somewhere on my person. That’s the extent to which I enjoy my freedom without fear. Most of you would probably immediately turn your nose up to that thinking a guy like me is the problem, well I’m here to tell you I’m not.

But what you don’t see is that this is their game, it's just the first move in their arsenal of manipulation, to those who don’t ask questions. When a new pandemic hits the first call of action is to have a scapegoat in place, they first pick the highest risk group and place it on their shoulders, simply because it's easier to place the blame on a group of people rather than to say, we don’t have the answer to how to fix this yet but we are working on it. With HIV it was gay men, with COVID it was the Chinese, and now with MonkeyPox, guess who? It's us. Not just me, all of us, and if you are gay you are the culprit. What’s wrong about this situation is that it places in the minds of guilt-ridden, self-hating gays, who have been raised to unconsciously be ashamed of our sex lives to first attack us, our own community. It starts with the gays who now say they’ll never have sex again because the impending threat of whatever disease has them so paralyzed they internally begin to despise themselves in what seems like a good idea of self-preservation, then they think you should do the same by projecting that inner hate and fear on to you as a stigma. But let’s not confuse what seems right with downright fear. They have struck at you at your core by saying you’re safer not living your life as a gay man that has gay sex. So in turn, you don’t go out, you don’t meet people, you shun your own society and even worse you feel good doing it because it gives you the illusion of safety.

This approach not only doesn’t work, but it's also dangerous. In one fell swoop, you aren’t supporting your own community, and this community has an economy that supports its political leaders. The very same leaders that try to donate to their causes and hopefully promote a better life for ourselves. This could be a politician that actually backs us up like Pete Buttigieg or a non-profit that helps gay and trans children get the care they need in the face of a heavily religious-run country, like the National Center for Transgender Equality. When you take your money away from your community because they give you something to fear you’re doing irreparable damage to yourself and you undo what generations of gays have fought for just for your very right to have sex.

What good are your rights if you don’t use them? Trust me, they’re already thinking the same thing when they try to take them away from you. By they, I mean republicans and the religious right-wing conservatives. If you think it can’t get any worse, don’t say gay has already passed, don’t ask don’t tell could be reinstated, and even worse the sodomy law where sex is illegal other than vaginally could come back. Yeah, that’s right, at one point in time you literally couldn’t do anal, by law.

I know what stigma looks like. I was diagnosed with HIV at age 19. That was 20 years ago. Before U=U and before PrEP. Under the veil of our seemly accepting and nurturing gay culture, it was perfectly ok to block someone like me based on my status because “they didn’t want to catch it” and I had to accept this because it was my fault for catching the virus. Had I only just wrapped them in plastic, maybe I wouldn’t be this way. PrEP didn’t become commonplace a decade later by the way and even then the stigma is still out there. Trust me. But here’s the harsh truth, it was my fault for getting infected because I put myself in the risky situation to catch it in the first place.

The same thing applies to monkeypox with one BIG difference, this disease isn’t deadly, it's gross and uncomfortable for 4 weeks max. They are now using the hypersensitivity they created in you with COVID to kill your nightlife and what you do as a person to suit their agenda. If it were up to the republicans you and your sex life would not exist. They are using this virus to make you hate yourself, and your peers because when they isolate you it makes them stronger as a group. All they have to do is pick off the strays.

So the construct we need to kill today, readers, is you have to learn to live your life normally in the face of fear. You need to learn to mitigate risk and handle your responsibilities to your body since you are responsible for it. Get vaxxed, and only sleep with vaxxed until you are vaxxed. Then you can let loose. When you go out, the spread of the virus mainly comes down to contact with legions, so just don’t kiss or touch anyone you don’t feel comfortable touching, and maintain a distance. If you want a 1-on-1 off of Grindr ask for vax papers if you really need them. Check for anything that looks like a pimple where one shouldn’t be, or a scabbed over ingrown hair. If something looks questionable or you think they’re lying you can just leave. Try not to be rude or anything just go to the bathroom and say the G made you sick or something.

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But don’t say you’ll never have sex again, do not look down on others who are, and do not stigmatize the affected. It’s in the nature of a communicable disease to spread and try as you might, you cannot stop it. The biggest lie we’ve ever told ourselves is that we can control nature. We can’t. It didn’t happen with HIV, it didn’t happen with COVID, and it won’t happen here. The only times it has happened were diseases like Polio, which was widespread and death sure. More harsh news, you will likely have a turn with it even if you are vaccinated, you may think because you limit your sex life that you won’t and on some levels, you are better than others because of it, but I assure you some people who have HIV now thought the same thing. Just be ready, get some Neosporin, Ibuprofen, exfoliant, ketamine, and a cleanser, make a monkeypox-ready kit for yourself, and be ready to have a self-care vacation when you get it. The kitty should kill the anxiety when it rears its ugly head in quarantine.

The ample and responsible distribution of vaccinations and antiretrovirals like TPoxx is what will manage this. The things that can slow his spread are 100% vaccination adherence or herd immunity, but remember the government is still only vaccinating those with high sexual risk history. This is in their favor because when it gets to schools, they can say if those darn gays didn’t stop having sex our kids would be safe. This even applies to conservative gays even if they think it doesn’t. So you need to remember the government is to blame for the horrible reply to this country during the pandemic, AGAIN. Not your peers.

I know myself I’d rather live my life and deal with the fact that I may have legions for two to four weeks. Coming from someone who thought they may die of HIV 20 years ago, that would be nothing. So we don’t need the fear and stigma.

Do not be the type of gay man they want you to be, be free be you, and live your best life. You are responsible and capable, and looking at our history we’ve been through worse. Don’t let them manipulate you into stigmatizing your own community. We are all we have, and only through an unbreakable acceptance and love of each other’s lifestyles conservative or not, can we do anything. Learn to recognize whether or not that when someone is telling you to be something else if it benefits you, or benefits them. I will always try to empower my readers to be themselves conservative or not. The point of this is though to look at your gay community and do the same for them, without judgment, even in the face of fear of politicized, and glamorized communicable diseases they have used to turn you against yourself.

Get vaccinated readers and fuck responsibly. Like always.

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— DaddyJackAndy (@DaddyJackAndy) July 28, 2022

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