Vendaval
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The STD free card is a great concept, Thadius. However I remain cautious for the reasons explained below. All parties involved need to be tested for everything and for HIV that means retesting at 3 and 6 months before the latex comes off. My two boys have been with me for 2 and 4 years respectively. And this was negotiated before hand with both of them. Safer sex does not equal no risk! One side effect of the popularity in shaving and waxing is that there is less public hair on many people and thus less crabs. Dr. House has it right, people lie, all the time. Having worked as an HIV counselor and AIDS educator and cross trained in STI screenings I know this first hand. It was very troubling when someone came in for testing because their long term partner or spouse had been cheating on them and lying about it. One woman came in for testing with several small children. She was distraught because her husband was cheating on her, forcing her to have sex and beating her. We did the testing and I had to call around to several shelters to find space for her. (There are some other examples but will leave them out becaue of the TOS.) A few particular examples of foolishness come to mind. One was a woman who knew she had HPV but had not had a pelvic exam or pap smear for several years. Another was a young man who went to a foreign country, had unprotected sex with a prostitute that he and his friends shared and got a tattoo while on this same vacation. (I marched him over to be tested for everything including Hep A,B,C) And last but not least the inexplicable behavior of the man who was in a answering the screening questions from me before having his blood draw for HIV and who admitted to having had unprotected sex with several partners. For reasons that remain unclear, he tried to give me his business card and arrange a date! Oh hell no!
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