Playa to the Tenth For Getting a Trick To Your Hospital Bed

The kids are driving down new streets in playa-ville. I got a phone message from a friend about his friend being in the hospital for an HIV related illness. While in the hospital, the guy logs onto Adam4Adam and sets up a trick session from his hospital bed. Without the trick knowing that he was going to a hospital, the trick shows up and carries through with the session, while an i.v. is in the guy's arm. Am I old school or what? Is this beyond or simply what we've become? Is this odd or an unspoken norm that has only come across my ears for the first time today.

I think about the boldness and courage of the person setting up the hook-up and wish for parallel boldness and courage. And then I imagine the desperation of the trick, to show up at the hospital and continue through with it, as if he couldn't find a session that wasn't in a hospital bed. Then it was shared with me that the Adam4Adam profile noted that the guy he was going to see was HIV positive.

Maybe this is a new unfolding resulting from honest communication. Maybe this is roads many travel in the age of AIDS. I guess if we're asking that folks be honest about their HIV status, we may have to be prepared for potential sessions in a hospital bed.