What is your overall experience with people you’ve been with when it comes to “safe sex” practices?
How quickly do women sleep with you?
Do they ask when you were last tested for various STDs?
Do they ask if you’ve ever been diagnosed with any?
Do they insist you wear a condom or refuse oral sex?
What about your own practices and risk?
Recently, a friend of mine caught Herpes while always using a condom. Apparently his girlfriend didn’t even know she had it.
Then I was talking to an old fling from a couple years back and she told me a bisexual guy she had previously slept with has AIDS. I always used a condom with her and she said she had recently been tested. But come to find out after I interrogated her more this weekend, the test wasn’t for HIV. It was specially for Herpes because she had an ingrown hair she was concerned about. And she hasn’t been tested since then!
I told her she needs to get tested ASAP because you can have HIV with no symptoms for up to ten years before you succumb to AIDS.
Her response — if I have it then I have it. I’m in no hurry to get tested because I can’t afford it and it would be too late anyway.
This is just insane.
So I started thinking about all the women I’ve slept with and how every single one of them never insisted I wear a condom and almost none of them asked if I had been tested until after we slept together more than a few times. And most of them were just middle or upper middle class women who mostly responsible in other aspects of life. And they were all concerned about pregnancy but not STDs.
I’m starting to think I’m going to insist on an STD test before sleeping with anyone from now on. It’s just insane how people take such risks.
How quickly do women sleep with you?
Do they ask when you were last tested for various STDs?
Do they ask if you’ve ever been diagnosed with any?
Do they insist you wear a condom or refuse oral sex?
What about your own practices and risk?
Recently, a friend of mine caught Herpes while always using a condom. Apparently his girlfriend didn’t even know she had it.
Then I was talking to an old fling from a couple years back and she told me a bisexual guy she had previously slept with has AIDS. I always used a condom with her and she said she had recently been tested. But come to find out after I interrogated her more this weekend, the test wasn’t for HIV. It was specially for Herpes because she had an ingrown hair she was concerned about. And she hasn’t been tested since then!
I told her she needs to get tested ASAP because you can have HIV with no symptoms for up to ten years before you succumb to AIDS.
Her response — if I have it then I have it. I’m in no hurry to get tested because I can’t afford it and it would be too late anyway.
This is just insane.
So I started thinking about all the women I’ve slept with and how every single one of them never insisted I wear a condom and almost none of them asked if I had been tested until after we slept together more than a few times. And most of them were just middle or upper middle class women who mostly responsible in other aspects of life. And they were all concerned about pregnancy but not STDs.
I’m starting to think I’m going to insist on an STD test before sleeping with anyone from now on. It’s just insane how people take such risks.