It should seem obvious.

Let’s talk fundamentals. There is an obvious necessity for protective gear. It’s all over. It ranges from stuff that guards a tender human body from radioactivity, chemicals, or biological agents…to dishwashing and cleaning gloves. There’s lots in-between.

So here we are in clown-car world.

This, too:

As the French Revolution led to communist revolutions around the world still plaguing us today—because everyone desires, most of all, to live at the expense of someone else—so does the modern theater of protection lead us into lots of silly shit that’s meaningless.

So what about condoms?…and I have to use 40 years of personal sexual experience to address that. Buckle up.

Where do I begin?

…OK, from a plain evolutionary context, of course there are many transmissible infections from one to another via a host of means…touching, kissing, hugging, breathing, and yea, fucking…and including many forms of oral-genital intimacy.

So why hasn’t VD weeded out everyone evolutionarily—by making them either dead or sterile? And to even emphasize that point, VD is most prevalent in the young and sexually active. The child producers.

Instead of ever dealing with anything rationally, scientifically, medically, or otherwise diagnostic, your overlords try to scare the shit out of you. It’s as though an STD is a special sort of infection that doesn’t play by the general rules. Google it up. You’ll find, for instance, that there is scant mention of any genital infection that could ever resolve itself on its own.

That is clue #1 they’re full of shit. It’s propagandistic theater protectionism, just like the stupid masks.

Sure VD is unpleasant. So is a head cold. But is it really particularly so different and pernicious that it requires an entire separate category of infectious?

Perhaps. Or, is it rather that this sort of moralistic, good-vs-evil category of infection where in addition to the infection, you’ve been naughty and not nice?

‘Ya got some bacteria up in there. You also offended God.’

So to put my own fine point on it, I’ve had unprotected sex with hundreds of 20 and 30-something girls since 1982, 40 years’ time. I had a brief hiatus of 20 years where I was exclusive to one, my ex wife.

Most of that happened in the 1980s and early 90s. Everywhere you can think of in Asia—from Pusan, Korea in 1982, 50+ trips to Subic Bay over the stretch, to Pattaya, Thailand between 1986 and 1991, my last in that era. And everywhere in between—even places like Malaysia and Indonesia. Singapore, too. OMG, the Asian melting pot that is. Ever fuck an Arab-Chinese mix? I have. OMG. The most beautiful-sexy girl I ever saw was an Arab in a nightclub in Singapore.

…Though I’ve always been more humble and reserved about all of it than in what I’m writing here. It’s just that I’ve always had a good sense that I know what I’m doing and have never given much of a fuck about what others think about it. What anyone thinks about me is none of my business.

I’ve been everywhere
Still I’m standing tall
I’ve seen a million faces
And I’ve [fucked] them all

Fearing a full life experience is far worse than fearing death and I’ll be damned if I’ll do either.

…I did use condoms a few times and hated them. It was back in college, with Ling. It was only to avoid pregnancy but when a moment came in the heat of the moment, we never used them again. They’re fucking awful and they destroy wondrous intimacy that goes beyond the animal act.

Never used them once in hundreds of intimate liaisons all over Asia.

Have never used them once in a few dozen encounters here in Thailand over the last two years and a few months. All chicks ask about them now (never back in the 80s), and I only have one answer: no. It’s never stopped a single one.

…So, you must be thinking I’m a walking and talking venereal-disease factory.

I’ve had gonorrhea—the clap—twice. It’s hard to miss. It’s like a cold in your head and nose, but the swelling, red, and runny is in your dick. Pronounced and unmistakable. It’s cured in hours by means of a milky-looking antibiotic shot in your butt. The US Navy is somehow on top of it, or at least it was 30 years ago. Perhaps they have lectures, now. I don’t know.

…But here’s the punchline funny thing. Neither of those two cases were as a result of all the little brown fucking machines in all those countries.

I got both cases in Japan. From proper Japanese girls; one, a high-end antiques dealer in Tokyo.

Go figure.

…So in that context, it might be completely unsurprising that I’ve always laughed at fucking masks…

The larger point is that both condoms and masks are just two examples of the penchant for humanity to think of themselves as broken, evil, depraved, and unworthy from birth.

The Christians popularized the most well-recognized term for it: Original Sin.