'Safe Sex Fatigue' Grows Among Gay Students

Health officials change their HIV-education strategies as condom use declines

Benjamin Persky will admit what many students won't: He has had sex with strangers, without condoms. The 22-year-old sociology major, a junior at Hunter College of the City University of New York, says he's tired of "being told that gay equals AIDS equals death."

He and other students claim the conventional safe-sex message rings hollow for a new generation of young gay men who have little direct

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