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These two articles are basically on the same thing, bareback simply originates in gay slang, but has since crossed over, furthermore unprotected sex isnt a strong enough stand-alone, but it is a better more encyclopedic title, bareback/barebacking can be a redirect to unprotected sex. Qrc2006 12:09, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
yes, merge per nom Qrc2006 12:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Yes, please merge. It's correct that the term bareback began within gay slang, but is now much more widely used to describe unprotected sex, be it vaginal or anal. To me it would make sense to use the title Unprotected sex, with a paragraph or section making reference to the term bareback. kevinbrighton kevinbrighton 18:25, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
"Barebacking" is a term specific to anal sex in the gay community, whereas "unprotected sex" includes anal, vaginal and oral sex in general. The use of the term "barebacking" does not normally refer to vaginal or oral sex, and is therefore does not warrant merging. Although "barebacking" is a form of unprotected sex, the unique use of the term amongst gay men is the most compelling reason that it should be maintained as a separate listing.
While not common usage in the general population, the fertility awareness community frequently uses the definition "no birth control" rather than "no condom". This is because couples avoiding pregnancy with FAM only use birth control for a portion of the women's menstrual cycle; there is a need to distinguish between reliance on an external method (use of birth control) vs. reliance on the woman's infertility (unprotected sex). In any merge, please retain this secondary usage of the term. Lyrl Talk Contribs 12:49, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Unprotected sex is the more generic phrase, barebacking is just a subset of it. Mathmo Talk 04:53, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Whoever posted the topic about not merging is incorrect. Barebacking has nothing specifically to do with "anal sex" just because the word "back" is in it. It's simply slang for sexual intercourse without a condom.
I say merge these articles as they are very similar. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tomfarvour (talk • contribs) 00:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC).
Barebacking is widely regarded and has its origens as a sexual term in reference to anal sex, especially amoung gay men. Oral sex is not seen as bareback territory since 99% of people don't even occur to them to use a condom for such a low risk activity which is not often seen as "sex". Gay men don't have vaginal sex, therefore anal sex is the only unprotected sex which two men can have. Its from gay slang. There is some and perhaps growing non-gay lingo usage of teh term, but it predominantly is used to describe condomless anal sex between two men.
whats wrong with the image of unprotected sex?Ah0000000ga (talk) 02:14, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Reading the discussions here re merging, and the article, I think the best solution is to merge most of this article into Safe sex and leave Bareback sex alone. I have done that. --Una Smith (talk) 03:15, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
I think that penicillin might be a more sourceable example of a drug which can be transmitted through sexual contact.[1] WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:01, 31 December 2007 (UTC)