The bareback phenomenon

I am constantly surprised/shocked/disgusted by the proliferation of punters and escorts alike offerring and seeking bareback sex. Now I grew up petrified of contracting HIV or AIDS and simply can't comprehend how someone, no matter how hard up or strapped to find business can possibly contemplate allowing a perfect stranger to have unprotected sex with them, even if it means an extra £50 along the way. I don't think there is anything that would be enough of an incentive to persuade me to even consider it, let alone give it any real amount of thinking time.

But there are 100's of girls who do, on a daily basis, and punters who request it online everyday...despite the fact that last year alone 7,400 people a day contracted HIV last year. With figures like that surely there's got to be a higher chance of contracting HIV than there is of picking the winning numbers in the lottery?? The even scarier thing is that half of that number are under 24 years of age... an entire generation seems to have grown up without a clue to the danger, and quite frankly I don't accept a man saying "oh but sex is better without" - no sorry fuck that! Sex is better if you're healthy and stay healthy, not if you're playing russian roulette with the cock that this currently attached to the wallet that you're trying to earn a share of.

The sickest thing is that people are not even shy about asking for bareback sex, even in the swinging community there seems to be an obsession with it, if the chatrooms are anything to go by it's rife and not just among the stereotypical idea that many people have of swingers (you know what I mean, the balding, potbellied late middle-aged men with their brassy wives) but among the growing number of early twenties sexperiementalists that are out there as well. Clearly given what I do I'm not a prude, but I cannot for a second begin to contemplate what possesses these significantly sizeable portions of the population to gamble with their health.

And yes I know some people swear that they are "certificated" (terrible word) and thoroughly clean, etc , etc, but people have fake ID, why trust any other piece of paper presented to you? But what puzzles me the most is that when you question anyone who proclaims outwardly to support the practice, they tend to go deathly quiet, clam up and refuse to discuss it with you - I dare you ...try it.. wander in to a chatroom somewhere and raise the question in a suitable room and you will be frozen out. I'd put money on it.

Does anyone out there have a reason that can really back up the decision? Or am I perhaps not so wrong in supposing that this is one of the least respectful acts anyone could ask someone to perform.