“7 percent said that watching bareback porn has led them to have unprotected sex themselves…”

“…over half (53.6 percent) said that they think watching bareback porn influences others to have unprotected sex. […] Almost 96 percent reported having seen bareback porn.”

A gay magazine in the U.K., FS Magazine, conducted a survey of 1000 gay men about the importance of gay porn in their lives. Of course, everyone knows that no one tells the truth about anything when it comes to surveys about their sex lives, so those numbers (7%, 53.6%, 96%) could be higher or lower, depending on how many people were feeling particularly embarrassed when they took the survey. Also, if 96% of total respondents (960) admitted to watching bareback porn and only 7% of total respondents (70) admitted to having bareback sex, that means the 53.6% who think bareback porn leads to bareback sex are dead wrong around 93% of the time, since about 890 out of 960 people who watch bareback porn say they aren’t having bareback sex, unless of course they’re lying (they are). And 2% of the gay men surveyed said they had never seen any kind of pornography at all, which means there are 20 gay men in the U.K. who are definitely lying. [FS Magazine]

15 thoughts on ““7 percent said that watching bareback porn has led them to have unprotected sex themselves…””

  1. There’s always a percentage of people who are just born stupid, and these are those. They clearly do not read the warnings in the videos and must live under some rock where they do not get any information on sex, HIV, and what porn is for fantasy not a “how-to” video!

  2. Matthew Hodson here, of GMFA, the gay men’s health charity that publishes FS. I just wanted to clarify a couple of points. The survey sample was self selecting and it was carried out online, so we have no idea how representative of UK gay men the respondents were (and we never intended the survey to be scientifically rigorous).
    7% of respondents said that watching bareback porn led directly to them having unprotected sex, it’s likely that a much higher proportion of those in the sample had unprotected sex, they just didn’t believe that it was influenced by the fact that they’d seen bareback porn.
    At GMFA we strongly believe that gay men should take responsibility for their own sexual behaviour and safety, and this theme runs through our HIV prevention work.
    Take care guys.

    1. Another day, another set of junk statistics. Why bother releasing publicly any study that isn’t scientifically rigorous? This should be disclaimed as entertainment only.

  3. Yep, watching bareback porn leads me to have lots of bareback sex in my fantasy life. Like when Brandon of SC bends me over and breeds me. However in my real life, I value my real life too much to ever engage in bareback sex.

  4. I’ve never heard a bullshit (I’m sorry for the term) like this.
    I’m a great fan of motoracing nevertheless I’ve never smoked because I could/can read “Marlboro”, “JPS”, etc… on cars’ livery.

  5. In most West European countries the rate of new HIV infections is down while at the same time more bareback porn is being produced and (I guess) watched. So the causal relationship between watching bareback porn and engaging in unsafe sexual practices is not so clear as some critics want us to believe. At least not for Western Europe. Let us do a thought experiment. Suppose that as of today gay guys would stop watching bareback gay porn. Would this mean that the number of new HIV infections would then drop to (almost) zero? Doesn’t sound very convincing to me.

  6. Did the survey ask the circumstances in which that 7% had bareback sex? They could have been in committed relationships when they did it. The whole survey seems pretty useless.

  7. 7 percent, huh? Considering that it would be pretty stupid to be embarrassed about participating in an anonymous survey and giving dishonest answers, that figure could be higher. Stupid people fuck everything on two legs.

  8. I bet you’d get a much higher percentage from people seeing smoking in films and then smoking in real time. Monkey see Monkey do. People aren’t as stupid as the AIDS Healthcare Foundation thinks. People have told me watching bareback porn was enough for them and it’s fantasy aspect kept them from bare backing.

  9. If 7% admit this, I wonder how much higher the real percentage is. Since current drugs mask the impact of HIV/Aids for much longer, there isn’t the stigma about bareback among young people as there is for the people who have seen the horrors of the disease.

  10. That’s the 7% of losers i hope to avoid…it’s called buyers remorse…(i fuck bare now i want someone else to take responsibility for my actions))i shudder to think what other activities can lead them astray >>SMH!

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