From Bernd Brunner
I am terrified by Clare Wilson saying an “intelligent and well-informed” gay man “sometimes” has unsafe sex (22 November, p 40). Is that not a contradiction? I do not believe that this kind of behaviour is “not that unusual”.
The editor writes:
• Several surveys have shown that a substantial minority of gay men have unsafe sex. One, a study of men in London, Manchester and Brighton published last year, found that about 1 in 5 had had unprotected anal sex with more than one partner in the past year (Sexually Transmitted Infections, vol 83, p 392).
Berlin, Germany
