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It surprises a lot of people to learn that some people are immune from getting AIDS. I was with someone for 10 years with AIDS, never any condoms used, no safe sex, and just before dying he told me: Don't worry! You're not going to get AIDS, God's got a more vicious disease awaiting you some day!
2 years after he died, I got tested! Negative! I think he was right, which has had me shaking eversince. What more vicious disease awaits my end?
I once took care of an AIDS patient, he knew he had AIDS, but couldn't test positive until the very end!
Yes, the incubation period! Which can be a long one! For someone who tells me he's HIV-, that gives me no reassurance whatsoever! But if some idiot wishes for me to get tested, I'll do so! And laugh silently!
While I am glad that you never contracted HIV it is very dangerous to highlight the alleged 10% while the 90% are vulnerable to exposure.
One benefit of being with someone in the military are regular screenings for these and other wellness issues...the gov't. likes to always know what your bill of health looks like.
My opinion: if you don't know a person well enough to discuss STD's and birth control with them, you don't know them well enough to have intercourse with them.
After you have your pants off is a bit too late. Discuss the matter during the day time, on a walk, or some other calm situation.
Condoms 100% of the time, until after you are exclusive, both tested, and you are 100% sure of your partner's loyalty.
It's an awkward topic to bring up, so your potential partner will be glad that you are the one who broached the subject while they were still trying to figure out how to ease into that conversation.
All right...wow! Cards on the table for the world to see here. I have an STD I got from the wife who recently left me. HAHA It's really the only thing she left me with HAHA
I am terrified that I have to go back out into the dating world with this baggage eventually. I just have to accept that it is the ABC's of me now and there isn't anything I can do to change it. The idea of casual dating doesn't seem as thrilling, now it feel like I have to have an agenda, and that sucks. Oh well.
When I'm ready, I anticipate a lot of cold showers and rejection, but what else do I have to loose? I'm sure there is a dating site for us out there somewhere if I get to desperate HAHAHA
To answer your question...when it feels like you want to take it to the next step, is when you have the conversation.
I don't really care since its almost impossible for a straight man to get HIV/AIDS from sex.
Please tell me you make sure that you firmly and clearly vocalize this particular belief to anybody that you are planning on being remotely physically intimate with from the get-go. It's a really important thing for prospective partners to know about you.
This is why it's so great to have the conversation. If someone comes out with a truly whacko, scientifically illiterate statement like some on this page, I know they are not knowledgeable enough to practice effective prevention.
If someone comes out with a truly whacko, scientifically illiterate statement like some on this page
How is what I said scientifically illiterate. Go look at the rates of HIV/AIDS contraction for straight non drug using males. it's almost non-existent. It would take a miracle for that straight guy to get HIV/AIDS in America especially if he is a white male.
When do you ask the questions?
Or do you just use a condom with no conversation about the issue?
Do you require an STD screening?
Would you be offended if asked to take an STD screening before any sexual interactions?
I ask the question on the first date. Plus a lot of other probably intrusive questions but that's just me haha.
Their answer of STD FREE, for me really changes nothing. I go in with the belief that this person could have a disease and take necessary precautions regardless of what they say... when it comes to not having anything.
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