Or maybe it's stupid to refrain from enjoying your sex life when the technology exists to enjoy it safely. All a question of perspective.
One thing's clear: there's nothing in your comment that's actually actionable. Sourpusses have been droning on about personal responsibility for centuries – and everyone else has been happily ignoring them. Making PrEP and other such treatments available will actually make a positive difference to people's health.
Yeah, giving in to our low level desires without doing some high level reflection on it is the easier thing to do. And statistically it is inevitable that at least some people some of the time act on it, so indeed maybe we should throw out the baby with the bathwater and all act that way so we don't get labeled a "sourpuss" when we talk about responsibility.
Look, I'm not arguing against backup options here. I'm just saying people should be as responsible as reasonably possible.
Edit: it's good that this exists. However, anecdotally: I know some promiscuous people and none of them are on prep. Some don't use protection at all because they are gay and there is no risk of pregnancy for them. When one person acts this way, it's their problem. When many people act this way, having sex at all becomes riskier for everyone. Recently, STDs have been on the rise. People just want to have fun and not feel bad about anything. They think they're the exception or something. And if you dare say something about it, you get called names like "sourpuss" or worse.
You mostly seem to be complaining about people who aren’t on PrEP. So you should be happy that there may now be an easier option for these people. It’s because you instead choose to complain about (literally!) people who have fun and don’t feel bad about it that you come across as a sourpuss. If you actually have some kind of concrete alternative proposal to making PrEP more widely available then I’m all ears, but you seem just to want to complain about people who have more than some arbitrarily-determined quantity of sex.
What I'm really complaining about is people with poor risk assessment and self control skills causing a tragedy of the commons for carefree sex, because people don't want to hear that they need to behave responsibly. In modern society it's pretty much a taboo to tell someone that they are too sexual, even when it's true and they are at highly increased risk for getting and subsequently spreading an STD.
I think you and I are in agreement about how awesome sex is. It's not about that. It's about people acting stupidly. I don't want a dating pool full of STDs but we're getting there. There's pros and cons to everyone leading a short-term-pleasure hedonistic lifestyle.
And yes, I'm happy about this PrEP development. Because when treatments and cures get better, it changes the risk calculus, and makes behavior which is today risky, no longer as risky or maybe even not risky at all.
I empathize with people who simply love to fuck a new body every week. They have their reasons for not picking a person and sticking with them. But I can't realistically say "well that's their business" because it's not just their business, it's the business of our whole society.
Food for thought: why is short-term greed looked down upon when it's about finances or business, but it's looked up to when it's sexual in nature?
Or maybe it's stupid to refrain from enjoying your sex life when the technology exists to enjoy it safely. All a question of perspective.
One thing's clear: there's nothing in your comment that's actually actionable. Sourpusses have been droning on about personal responsibility for centuries – and everyone else has been happily ignoring them. Making PrEP and other such treatments available will actually make a positive difference to people's health.