Wtf? Why did you delete everything? That was good data. There were like 1500 votes. What was the point in erasing all of it? This is the gayest fucking site on the planet. Fuck this.
Originally Posted by yitzchak
Yitzchak, I've been fighting fires for a couple of weeks so not following this web site, but did check in once, and the results of this poll and a similar one you posted where escorts responded didn't make sense. Also the number of respondents was very high compared to historical polls. I suspect a hacker may have gotten into the system and voted repetitively so that the moderators had to shut it down.
I note that, in other polls, you tried to tie bareback sex to STD's. Unfortunately, that's extremely hard to do the way the polls work here. I think you'd need elaborate software, where you could ask specific follow up questions based on answers to previous questions.
That said, yes, it would be good to know more about the risks of the hobby, and there aren't many decent studies out there. There are some for sexworkers, mostly outside the USA and based on surveys of women who go to STD or female care clinics. The data for hobbyists in the USA is sparse, maybe nonexistent.
There is a need for more knowledge, and I believe that would cause some hobbyists and providers to be more cautious. If you're gay and all your friends start dropping dead from AIDS, like in the 1990's, then you know you need to change behavior. In our community it's different. In the real world we don't go around shouting from the rooftops that we got a provider or a sugar baby pregnant, got STD's, etc. We don't even post about it in our threads. Anonymous polls are one possible way of bringing that information into public.
Unfortunately though, like many things in the world, there are certain lessons that aren't passed down based on experience of others. People must learn these lessons the hard way, over and over again, from the unfortunate results of our risky behavior.