Whenever someone says they prefer to play safe and admits they have not or do not always play safe, I am reminded again that intent does not equate to safe practices. A person may intend to win a state lottery, but winning the lottery is left to chance. Whether you bareback fuck behind closed doors or you engage in a group bareback fuck in a public area, the odds of contracting STDs and HIV are exponential because the practice of safe sex is left to chance or happenstance.
No matter how many times you play the lottery game and how many tickets you purchase, it only takes one chance out of millions to win the jackpot. When it comes to staying safe, it only takes one unsafe barebacking encounter to eventually lose your life. The odds for living are far greater than the odds for losing a life. For some people, playing safe is left to chance or happenstance despite our intent to change the odds against us. We either get busy living or we get busy dying. That too is another choice for the consequences do mean the difference between life and death.
And since we all are going to die someday, my own choice or preference is to stay busy living and not hasten the inevitable.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. And, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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