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This was the time when the need for a term to define the difference between “protected” and “unprotected” sexual acts arose. Barebacking as a practice is declared to have become increasingly particularly again for same sex in the mid-1990s. Reasons for this are diverse, and include correlations based on: an “upswing” in the level of new HIV infections between gay men in younger age groups cited by the CDC and WHO, a more public occurrence of “bareback” literature, personal ads, and publicity of rebellious stances towards the practice; the increased effectiveness of HIV/AIDS treatments and the weaken of people with AIDS being highly evident and physically compromised as a result of the infection. The later two basis held in comparison to the 1980s in the gay community when those grimy were often visibly sick and their health quickly declining coupled with mainstream awareness to the “new” disease.