That is so true Lifesaver.

Also, a condom seriously impairs sensation. So prepare yourselves for a long night when you put a condom on a guy.

Add three beers to a condom and you are going to be there for hours . . .

Ummm...OK.

-Rudey
--Your wang must be scarred up real bad or have a kevlar shell if it takes you "hours" with a condom.

Oh Damn, I didn't say I I used condoms . . .

I just get him laminated for protection :D .

If you rub turtle wax on junior and shine it up real nice, the girl can't tell.

-Rudey
--Girls like shiny things...give them a piece of a broken mirror instead of a wedding ring and you'll fool 'em again!

This is a good conversation!
It's hard to approach someone about STD's (esp herpes) since you can get it from kissing. It's like "hi, I know this is our first date, but before you kiss me, I wanted to know... do you ever get cold sores?"
I think it needs to become more commonplace to ask.

Also, is there anyway to know when people are "preoutbreak"? I jsut broke up with a long term bf, and now that I'm dating men again, I want to know how to protect myself.

Carry a bible with you on dates.

-Rudey
--Sing psalms for extra protection.

It's funny how this thread has perfect timing. Yesterday, my best friend found out she had chlamydia. And then...last night's episode of Everwood talked about STDs...I think there was an outbreak of throat gonorrhea...I think that was it.

Okay here's an off the wall random question.
Lets say you find out you have an STD...do you call all your parnters and let them know? Or do you say SCREW them they probably gave it to me anyways? I remember watching Miranda on HBO's Sex in the City and how she had a HUGE list of people to call and it turns out the grouchy ex was the one that had it.

Just curious!

I feel sorry for you. It just isn't the same with a condom.



I look at it this way, if you get a disease that will kill you and it normally doesn't kill you until you're 30-40 yrs old if you contract it in you're 20's, when you do want to die? When you're in your 50's, 60's 70's? From cancer? From falling down when you're too old? Catching pnemuenia and dying from a cold? Thats how most people die when their old, some shitty way. Why go through life without having as much sex as you'd please, only to die for some stupid reason? Some may think what I'm saying is stupid and a reckless attitude, but you could die tommorrow in a car accident or by getting shot. Does that mean you should stay in your house and never come out for fear of losing your life? We all die, some a lot quicker than others. Rather than focusing on how to avoid dying, why don't you make the most of the time you got?

I'm not saying go out and have sex with prostitues. However, being scared of every person you have sex with is torturing yourself.


Besides, the only people who ask how dirty you are will be the ones you probably need to watch out for. Clean people don't bring that up because they know their clean. The dirty ones don't want to add another STD from the long list that hangs in the student health center.

That's like saying everyone smoke because you're going to die evntually anyway, so who cares if you get lung cancer. Of course there are many things that can kill me, but if I can protect myself then I am going to. AIDS is a nasty way to die.

Michelle, there is a test for herpes to see if someone has herpes and is asymtomatic. But in most cases a person will self diagnosis themselves by the red blisters on the genitals. Also simplex I and II are different. Herpes simplex I is anything above the waist, most comonly a cold sore. Simplex II is anything below the waist, most comonly genital herpes. Simplex I can be passed onto the genitals via oral sex. But it will still be simplex I or II no matter where the blisters occure. Remeber that herpes is viral and in most cases these days, people are born with simplex I because it is som common.

As for contacting past partners if one is diagnosised with a STI. I do know it is a felony if someone is HIV positive and infects another person knowingly. But as a health department employee we always recomend contacting partners to make sure that they can be tested and treated. Otherwise there tends to be massive outbreaks of one STI over a short period of time.

If anyone ever has questions feel free to PM me.

Got herpes? Smoke a tree
Got hepatitis? Smoke a tree
Got AIDS? Smoke a tree
Got gonnerhea? Smoke a tree
Got syphillis? Somke a tree

Why did I just type that...I don't know.

George Washington died of Syphilis.

WOW, so unlike AIDS, the rest of this stuff has been around for awhile. Interesting.

Lady Pi Phi-


There are only 2 STDs in the world you cannot get rid of.

Genital Warts/Herpes

&

HIV/AIDS

One is lethal and one is not.


The rest are all curable by doses of Pennicillin. Trust me, I know. Why do you think they gave the nobel peace prize to the inventor of pennicillin? Look how many lives he saved by concocting that shit up.

STDs are like colds, if you catch one, take your medicine to get rid of it.