The gist of it is, if you aren't using IV drugs (and sharing needles), or having unprotected sex in a long-term relationship with someone who shares needles or has unprotected anal sex (i.e. gay men), your risk of infection is quite low. That being said...how well do you really know anyone? Can you say for sure that any of your partners don't have those tendencies? Personally, I can't. And as I get older I realize that people are way freakier than the mainstream media would have us believe. I just found out that a couple I'm quite close to are in fact swingers and he has bisexual tendencies. These are the whitest, most stereotypical suburban people you could ever meet. So yeah. You pays your money, you takes your chances.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/herpes-NHANES-2010.htm That's some scary shit. Every time I feel bad about not getting laid I should just read std stats.
At the risk of pointing out the obvious, if these women are barebacking you, aren't they likely barebacking others? It really only takes one to fuck up an otherwise clean pool. And shit like HPV won't do much to you, but can really be bad for women. It's your dick, obviously, but personally I'd rather not take the chance with people I'm not in a long-term monogamous relationship with.
Your family doctor? The guy your married single partner parents and their non-sexually active children check in with? What a reliable source of STD information... Go ask your county's health clinic/STD clinic how frequently they see shit. Go ask a gynecologist. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.rhtp.org/std/types.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.rhtp.org/std/types.asp</a> That's roughly one out of 6 people. You've fucked 3 different women this week alone. How long before you get something? How many people will be infected before you even get checked? You, your partners, their partners, their partners, their partners... What do I know though? You're only fucking 'non-sketchy' people who we all know is an STD free demographic. Besides, they are obviously good at math, long term decision making and caring about the health of others.
Listen to this guy. And better yet, wander on down to your local pharmacy and ask them how often they dispense valtrex, or azithromycin/cefixime. It's a lot. I've mostly worked in places with, erm, special populations that predispose themselves to STDs and such (see: the military, RMC cadets, the gaybourhood) so my opinion might be biased. But valtrex has been a fast mover everywhere I've worked, and the standard STD regimens come in and out fairly frequently. And I've only ever worked in one spot for a month or two at a time. If, after seventeen years, your family doctor has never seen a single case of an STD, he's either not looking for them, his patient population was drawn from utopia, or - gasp - people with STDs just aren't going to him for help.
Fuckin' herpes... Two weeks ago the girlfriend went to her new gyno because of what we thought was some tearing (due to fucked up circumstances, she was a late 20s virgin....so there's some breaking in to be had)... This asshole takes one look at her vagina and proceeds to tell her she has herpes. Not 'oh, we need to test because I think this might be...' or 'I need to cover my bases on what could be the cause...' just straight 'welcome to the herp, motherfucker'. THEN, to add insult to injury, asks her if there's any chance I've been screwing around. When she says no, he proceeds to ask if she's been screwing around.......THEEEN tells her maybe she needs to reconsider our relationship. Mind you, this is all before even fucking swabbing what he thinks is the infected area to test it. Puts her on Valtrex, gives her a ton of brochures, information, dvds, tells her it'll be a couple days before the test comes back. She calls me and its the most awkward, mostly silent ten minute phone conversation. I have no idea what to say and we're both a little suspicious about the other. A few months ago, I had swelling and a lot of pain and a lump down there, so when I went to get checked out (just an epididymal infection, no cancer thank the lord), we also tested for any STDs, just to be on the safe side, but I was, as I figured, clean. This awkwardness goes on for a few days. She's destroyed...she's had sex with only one person and now she might have herpes. I understood how she felt, but kept reassuring her this doctor was a cunt. Finally, she gets a hold of this gyno to get her results. Negative, of course. But this guy wants to do a blood test because he's still sure she's got herpes. So he drags her into his office to give blood. Get that test back? No herpes. He calls her to tell her this. No apology for forcing it on her that she had it. No explanation for his dickheaded behavior. She proceeded to rip him a new asshole for twenty minutes due to his fuckery. I still would like to meet him and shove his head up his ass. How egregious is it for a doctor to tell a patient they have something without the proper testing done? Especially something like herpes and the stigma attached to it.....only to be wrong and to have left us in shock, worry, and bewilderment for a couple weeks. Fuck that guy. Fuck herpes, too.
Agreed. My contribution to the improvement of the thread: NSFW And, since some people aren't down for that kind of thing, [rnsfw][/rnsfw]
Nice try, but if 1 in 6 people have std's I would put the the subset of girls with pics on the internet at like 5 out of 8.
RNSFW? Is this your boss? This has been Gentle Comedy with Nom Chompsky. Tune in next week when we talk about how annoying traffic can be.
No, although my boss has given me that look before. Huh. Apparently Toronto's lingerie football team got spanked today, 48-14. I wonder if the repercussions include disciplinary pillow fights...
Man, you know you've given up on life when you buy masturbation jelly. "Personal lubricant" at least leaves the door open to the possibility that you might use said product with another person. But masturbation jelly says "yep, I know what I'm doing tonight, and tomorrow night, and for every night after that...".
This masturbation jelly also promotes itself as being the "slickest glide for the quickest ride". So you're not just jacking it - you're giving yourself a quickie.
If it actually smelled like actual gun oil I slather it on before going out. Bitches can't resist a man that smells like a fucking MAN.
Women can use a toy that comes with a ripcord and a car battery but men can't use a little swelly jelly? DAAAAAAAAMN.
I never said that. But what happened to enjoying a jerk session? This stuff sounds like you rub it on your dick and two strokes later you're reaching for the Kleenex and Marlboros. Wait - CAR battery?