Get it on

Welcome

Thanks to safer sex and condoms gay and bisexual men enjoy great sex - and lots of it! Safer sex has stopped millions of us around the world from getting or passing on HIV.

Most of us use condoms most of the time. Sometimes we don’t, thinking what we’re doing isn’t so risky. That’s when HIV makes its move - as over 2,000 gay and bisexual men find out each year when they’re diagnosed with HIV

Although sex can never be totally risk-free, you can decide what level of risk you’re happy with. This website gives you facts about what makes sex less or more risky - and recent research seems to suggest that Poppers are one of those things that make it more risky.

But don’t forget: even if something is less likely to pass the virus on, it can still happen. And the more often you do it, the more chance that will happen. A lot of the things described here as ‘less risky’ would actually be quite risky if you did them often.

And as we all know, condoms are by far the best way to protect yourself and others.

Sources: condom use figures: Gay Men’s Sex Survey 2006. UK HIV figures: Health Protection Agency, 2006