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LadyConstanze -> RE: Sharing your sub or slave. (7/6/2011 4:13:15 AM)
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ORIGINAL: SashaSteel
So here is another question to add on to the previous question. Since statistically, one in five harbors an STD of some sort, and everyone claims that they are STD free -Who is lying?
Sincerely,
Sasha
Well, maybe some people who aren't STD free don't even know it and were never tested? Personally I wouldn't take the word of somebody that they are STD free as the gospel but would demand to see a recent test, then still have safer sex until the test is repeated due to the incubation period where it might not show up in tests. I'd rather take the very boring and conservative approach than run the risk.
I've found some interesting facts here: http://www.livestrong.com/article/13924-std-information/
Livestrong does seem to do their research, so I'm tempted to trust them on it
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One in five people in the United States has an STD.
Two-thirds of all STDs occur in people 25 years of age or younger.
One in four new STD infections occur in teenagers.
Cervical cancer in women is linked to HPV.
Hepatitis B is 100 times more infectious than HIV.
STDs, other than HIV, cost about $8 billion each year to diagnose and treat.
One in five Americans has genital herpes, yet 90 percent of those with herpes are unaware they have it.
At least one in four Americans will contract an STD at some point in their lives.
HPV and chlamydia are the most common STDs in the United States.
More than 5 million people are infected with HPV each year.
Less than half of adults ages 18 to 44 have ever been tested for an STD other than HIV/AIDS.
At least 15 percent of all infertile American women are infertile because of tubal damage caused by pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), the result of an untreated STD.
Two-thirds of Hepatitis B (HBV) infections are transmitted sexually. HBV is linked to chronic liver disease, including cirrhosis and liver cancer.
In the United States, the number of people affected by:
Chlamydia: 4 million
Trichomoniasis ("trich"): 3 million
Gonorrhea ("clap"): 1.1 million
Genital Warts (HPV): 750,000
Genital Herpes: 40 million, with as many as 500,000 new cases each year
Hepatitis B: 300,000
Syphilis: 120,000
HIV: 1 million, with as many as 45,000 new AIDS cases reported each year
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/13924-std-information/#ixzz1RJxQH7HM
The 2 bolded comments could be the answer - if you're unaware of it and you haven't ever been tested, you'd be thinking you are STD free too, wouldn't you? For example somebody might have been in a long term relationship, they believed it was monogamous, the partner was playing around and infected them, they broke up for other reasons, have no symptoms and also no check - they would believe they are STD free...
I recall years ago as a student working in a medical environment, I basically had every test imaginable before being allowed to work there, because they wanted to be sure that I couldn't claim I got infected and sue, when I might have had it before.
Seriously, would you trust the word of somebody that they are STD free? I wouldn't, I'm rather boring than diseased... Trusting somebody that they are really STD free is neglecting your own responsibility.
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