Study Finds Taking Antibiotics Immediately After Fucking Bareback Reduces STD Infections
This obviously will do nothing to prevent HIV or other antibiotic resistant STDs, but a recent study showed that taking Doxycycline significantly reduced STD infections among gays and trans people fucking bareback. Important to note that people in this study were already HIV-positive or were already on PrEp, and I might also add that taking antibiotics every time you fuck is an extremely bad idea, given that the more antibiotics you take, the more likely you are to develop a tolerance (rendering the antibiotics useless), which would then make you susceptible to all kinds of potentially deadly bacterial infections. In short, unless this is intended for people who might need to pop doxys once in a blue moon, this study is fucking stupid and dangerous. Via UCSF:
A significant proportion of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) – gonorrhea, chlamydia, or syphilis – were prevented with a dose of doxycycline after unprotected sex, according to preliminary results of a clinical trial that closed early because it was very effective for men who have sex with men and transgender women who are living with HIV or are taking HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
The results of the clinical trial, conducted in San Francisco and Seattle, have been eagerly anticipated by public health officials and clinicians who are looking for new ways to prevent STIs, which have been on the rise in the United States and many other parts of the world for the past six years.
Researchers examined an approach known as doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (or DoxyPEP), in which people take 200 milligrams of the antibiotic doxycycline within three days of having sex without a condom.
[UCSF]
Just get tested regularly if you’re sexually active. If you turn up positive for one of those 100% curable STDs, then you take the antibiotics.
