{"id":23,"date":"2008-12-01T17:14:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T17:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/?p=23"},"modified":"2011-07-12T07:08:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T07:08:43","slug":"thoughts-on-world-aids-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on world AIDS day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/images4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"83\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24\" \/> I have often wondered why guys seem to engage in unsafe sexual practises despite all the information to the contrary. Recently I heard a presentation at a congress that I thought would explain at leas some of it. It is all in how our thinking works.<\/p>\n<p>Often we use simpler ways of thinking, \u2018intuition\u2019or \u2018emotion\u2019, that allow us to make decisions quickly. This can lead to disastrous outcomes when situation does not forgive error, like the decision whether to use a condom. Here emotional response to unsafe sex is often likely to be positive when there is no previous experience of negative consequenses.<\/p>\n<p>My youth was in the eighties when the firs AIDS epidemic caught a lot of negative public attention and caused the death of some of my friends. Therefore I have more negative emotional response toward unsafe sex and associate more risk with it. In fact there is some reaseach into how young people can be taught to associate negative feelings to unsafe sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have often wondered why guys seem to engage in unsafe sexual practises despite all the information to the contrary. Recently I heard a presentation at a congress that I thought would explain at leas some of it. It is all in how our thinking works. Often we use simpler ways of thinking, \u2018intuition\u2019or \u2018emotion\u2019, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sakari.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}