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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cult Health Sex. 2017 Sep 5;20(6):658–672. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2017.1368711
Lucas: When I came to have STD tests and said that I had bareback [condomless anal] sex in Florida, [the doctor] said, ‘Well, you should consider PrEP’, and then I looked into it and we talked about it.
Gavin: And this was sort of the second time that you had impulsively –
Lucas: Yeah, impulsively had –
Gavin: Broken the agreement.
Lucas: No-condom sex.
Gavin: And so, I also felt like PrEP was something that you should do, so that –
Lucas: If I didn’t have that bareback sex, would you feel like I should still –
Gavin: I’d still be in favour of it so I wouldn’t have the anxiety of you impulsively doing something.
Lucas: More for your own safety or just mine?
Gavin: Both, like, I’ve lost family to AIDS and don’t want to go through that again.