Yes, it has.
Mainly by David Stuart, who has a vested interest in talking this up as a 'problem'.
See also his narco-hysteria about gay men and crystal meth, GHB etc etc...
Thanks for asking.
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| This comes after the Pink News interview above. Guess the sources! |
PS If you want to be taken seriously, David - and not be seen as just a rampant and vain self-publicist - why do you send out some photo of yourself giving us all a teasing Grindr-esque glimpse of your manly muscled tits?
Just a thought.
Update: The Guardian have run a shockingly bad story on this nonsense. Fagburn asked this journalist, Denis Campbell, if he had evidence to back this - sadly after filing this story, and claiming to be a Health Correspondent - he has now disappeared.
Update: The Guardian have run a shockingly bad story on this nonsense. Fagburn asked this journalist, Denis Campbell, if he had evidence to back this - sadly after filing this story, and claiming to be a Health Correspondent - he has now disappeared.
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I'm interested to know why you feel the Guardian story is shockingly bad and why you're mystified as to the evidence it's based on - have you read the research the Guardian is summarising (hyperlinked in the first paragraph)?
ReplyDeleteUnsurprisingly, the Guardian focuses in on the most negative aspects and doesn't add in as much context as the research report itself, but it doesn't particularly distort the material that it reports.
I summarised the study for Aidsmap here: http://www.aidsmap.com/No-simple-relationship-between-drug-use-and-risky-sex-in-London-gay-men/page/2842715/
I agree with you that the media loves coming back to this topic because it neatly brings gay sex, drugs and death together in one story, but now that someone has done a decent study on the topic, wouldn't it be helpful to contrast the factual elements described by that study with the the way the issue is treated in the media?