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Dawn confesses to not knowing who Charles Kaiser is. A web search suggests he's a author and a political hack (Go, Democrats, Go!), but Dawn first met Chuck as the writer of "The Last Word," The Advocate's antepenultimately paged opinion piece.

Herein, Chuck tells us that he has a rule against moralizing, but then devotes his column to his "one exception": it is wrong to engage in unsafe sex (i.e., condomless buttfucking), Chuck unabashedly preaches.

(Or rather, wrong for those HIV-positive to do so, even with each other(!); monogamous couples believing themselves to be HIV-negative-- i.e., the good, god fearing homos-- are granted dispensation by Chuck, "obviously.")

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Chuck concurs with the sentiments of the forever-cranky ACT UP founder Larry Kramer, who told him "that the unwillingness of people to stop having unsafe sex made him feel that despite everything we've achieved, we've all been total failures."

Jeez. Dawn thought one of the central tenets in the gay lib struggle was precisely the right to buttfuck. Surely the tragic aspect of men's randiness even in the face of danger is counter-balanced by a sort of inspiration at their lustcourage. Few find it unthinkably odd that guys race cars that sometimes crash or that others attempt mountain climbs and never make it back... but Larry (and Chuck?) has never been a big fan of gay sex and seems disappointed that even viral risk hasn't stopped men from doing the nasty.

But why should it? Throughout the ages, men have been willing to risk ostracism, excommunication, prison, even being burned at the stake in order to stick their hard peckers up each others shitholes. It simply feels that good, Larry/Chuck.

Instead of moralizing founded on transparent sqeamishness about buttsex, why not try to unite men behind a sensible gay rights agenda: "Making the world safer for buttfucking!" As a slogan, it allows a focus both on getting anti-buttfuck laws off the books, and on keeping rectal linings and seminal fluids healthier and less likely to spread either nuisance germs or their lethal cousins.

Buttsex enthusiasts make much better advocates for condoms, treatments, education than do old men who're crabby that youngsters are sticking their willies nilly. Chuck and Larry should yield the soapbox....