I became the super-duper conscientious King of super conscientiousness.īecause that was the end of sex as we knew it. I was as concerned about my own health and repeated exposure as I was about transmitting a possible virus to others. Part VII of an Ongoing Chronicle of the First Fifteen Years of the AIDS PandemicĪfter returning to the mainland in August, 1984, I still had the healthy sexual appetite of a twenty-six year old, but I was too afraid of having any type of sex that would even remotely be deemed “unsafe”.