Now I have one partner so we bareback all the time. It's great.

Condom? What's a condom? Who uses condoms?

Also, I'm not working in porn, I'm only watching it.
And for me caring is pointless - I have little to no chance of getting sex either way, so the condoms are simply irrelevant to me. And I have no say in porn studios politics on the issue, to close the argument.
Yes, I'm aware I can get both HIV and regular STI through means other than sex, so I still get screened regularly, just to be on the safe side.

They're not ALL infected, and being infected is a reason for you to CARE MORE, not the othe way around. If you're doing porn you gotta be taking something for risk reduction, if you're neg you have to be on prep, if you're poz you have to be on antiretroviral therapy.

No one's doing porn bareback because they want to get infected or because they don't care, it's just a industry standard, and it's not because the industry don't care either, they do care and have tried to make condom scenes, some still do. They've tried making the condom magically appear on the guy's dick, they have tried inserting it bareback and then cut to another take where a condom is there so that people are less likely to notice or care for it, they've tried condoms with very thin rubberband, they've tried making the condoms have a bigger role in the eroticism of the scene composition...

It's just that people don't want to see it, they lose much less money testing actors for STI's than they'd lose doing condom scenes.

The second day on the island, I had a lot of red skin bumps, which I attribute to the latex mingling with certain membranes during a 10-hour flight.

The bumps went away with some medicated cream after two days, after which I slept with the pharmacist's assistant. (Bagging an island native is the highest degree of difficulty, lol.)

I've always been mystified by those who attribute latex irritation to an active-role, 20-minute sexcapade, as it's external skin, but, oh well.

In undergrad, I learned I was allergic to latex when I was putting on a condom. My dick burned for days.

Since I've been on prep, it's bareback all the time. Sex feels so much better and I really get turned on by cumming inside some guy's ass

I agree - I prefer cumming deep inside my guy... but whether that's bareback or in a condom is not of major import... it's that feeling of thrusting and pulsing deep inside him that is so satisfying. For me.

I too am on PReP - and I'm mostly a top. I like to think of PReP as giving us control of our own level of protection vs. depending on (trusting) another. And I respect others' choices on how they protect THEMselves... so, when I encounter a partner who wants condoms, I comply.

Mind you - I am speaking for myself - I do not mean to imply others should (or must) do as I do, or feel as I feel.

If you strongly prefer bareback - and your partners agree to it - it's all good! Just so long as you aren't being deceitful (as in: telling someone who wants/demands condoms that you're using one, when you aren't (really) doing so.)

condoms with strangers.

Certainly bareback looks much better in porn. But in practice, guys should wear condoms when having "random" sex. There is no way that I could ever achieve orgasm with a condom on.

I know of a very prolific escort.. VERY prolific.. who sucks more cock and gets fucked by more cock than you would believe.. from totally random guys. All bareback. He is HIV+, and technically what he is doing is illegal. My understanding is that one is only contagious if they have full blown AIDS and not just HIV+. But still, I would consider him to be high risk. I would never have sex with someone that I knew was HIV+.
There are people who are HIV+ who only have sex with other guys who are HIV+.. but even that is a bad idea, because there are many different strains of HIV, and you can have more than one strain.

For straight people, I don't understand how a guy can stick his cock into a female without a condom.. because at some point, regardless of whether the bitch says she is on the pill, she WILL get pregnant and you will either be forced to marry the bitch, abandon the bitch... or she will have an abortion. I've never had sex with a female, so I've never had to deal with that.

Good grief.

I despair for how uninformed, yet judgemental, people are.