Have you ever caught a STD?

[MaleVolentworld]

Ok reading about this and seeing pictures of them sure helps me with my challenge, it makes me feel sick...and also slightly worried (she told me to, and then...I did)

Apparently, according to one source (sorry I forgot), about 1/4 of people have had an STD in their lifetime. However, you will never know unless you go and see a specialist, so you may actually have it and be unaware.

[Frag]

I don't think its possible yet, so I'm gonna say have to say no... ;-)

[karenk]

Were you tested? I can't tell from your post. Some STDs-like chlymadia- can have no symptoms. After I found that out I was checked but never had any.

[MaleVolentworld]

Well it was a couple of years ago and...no symptoms but...erm...finger to...and then...is not such a good idea...but she said she was a virgin so thought no chance....but I don't know much about STD's really...

*looks down and hopes someone else says something

[karenk]

Well it was a couple of years ago and...no symptoms but...erm...finger to...and then...is not such a good idea...but she said she was a virgin so thought no chance....but I don't know much about STD's really...

*looks down and hopes someone else says something


I still can't tell from your post. ha. If you're the cautious type like me, it's nice just to get checked for any that don't have obvious symptoms. Then you can forget about it. (I mean if you were with someone whom wasn't really a virgin.)

[dalidaisy]

Not me. I've been lucky in the past & now I'm extremely safe. The worst thing I've ever had was a yeast infection. Some of those STDs are really, really ugly. If you have sex, regardless of how trusting you are, you should get tested regularly & encourage your partner to as well. Some diseases can lie dormant for years. Better to be safe than sorry...

[Josephine1012]

People will often say things that are not true... I would think unless you fully trust a person unprotected sex is a very very bad idea.

One of my friends in college caught chlamydia from the second person she slept with, who was a "virgin"

Hearing that was a hugely scary, so I guess I've always been very careful.

[MaleVolentworld]

I still can't tell from your post. ha. If you're the cautious type like me, it's nice just to get checked for any that don't have obvious symptoms. Then you can forget about it. (I mean if you were with someone whom wasn't really a virgin.)

Ok...usually on a forum I am not embarrassed about anything but this is. Ok so I tasted her genitals indirectly, and it tasted like iron...like blood. Then I thought nothing of it because I am ok and it was....maaan stop embarrassing me.

*runs away

oh by the way the doctor will think I'm a weirdo for waiting 2 years, like he did when I waited about 5 years to see him about my knees and many years to see him about my floaters...

[Mina]

I was tested a while back (they made me do it before I could get a prescription for birth control). I was clean, as I knew I would be.

And yeah, I'm paranoid about getting one, too (1 in 4 is a HUGE number :S). Just be careful. If you think the person might have an STD, don't sex them, and even if you don't think they have one, use a condom anyways.

I've actually heard that it's pretty normal for women's nethers to taste iron-y. An obvious explanation would be if she had just finished/was about to begin menstruating, and there were traces of blood down there. But I've heard that they can taste that way all the time. Taste varies from person to person.

[karenk]

And yeah, I'm paranoid about getting one, too (1 in 4 is a HUGE number :S). Just be careful. If you think the person might have an STD, don't sex them, and even if you don't think they have one, use a condom anyways.

Condoms don't prevent herpes and a person is infectious even if they don't have an outbreak. Just a sidenote to create more anxiety.

[NZPixie]

Ha ha ha I had to answer yes. This is a funny topic. I caught herpes from my current partner. Real sexy. Was sick as a dog the first outbreak but then its just like carrying the cold sore virus... which is the same thing anyway, just lives in a differen't place in the spinal nerves. Or something. I am not really the expert. I was pissed off at first but hey thats life. Just get checked every so often if you are sexually active. And use protection. But for gods sake don't stop living.

[Rudy]

Nope. Probably a consequence of not having sex.

[Mina]

It's true; condoms only protect against herpes 40-50% of the time.

The best thing to do would be to not have sex with anyone until after they've been tested; but I can imagine it might be hard to get people to do that. Many people with STD's have never displayed any symptoms, and might think that it's a waste of time.

[daydreamer]

HELL no !! lol thanks for the laugh though :)

[Vagrant]

"So there was this blind man right? And he was feeling his way down the road with this stick, right? He stopped by this fish market, he took a deep sniff, he said, 'Whooooo, good morning ladies!'"



Nope, never caught an STD -- only been with one partner ever, and it's been well over a year since I last had sex. No signs of any STD.

[SRVcardsfan27]

They're too fast for me to catch.

[karenk]

Was sick as a dog the first outbreak but then its just like carrying the cold sore virus....

....which is why a person can get herpes from oral sex. If you don't mind being asked a personal question, I'm curious if your partner told you he/she had herpes before this.

[BostonIan]

I've had the morbid idea that I might catch an STD, say, off of a public toilet, shaking someone's hand, kissing a cousin, some maniac injecting it into me, whatever. I'm not a germphobe, not at all, it's just that, while getting an STD is a bad thing in general, a virgin catching an STD would be epic. It's like those Final Destination movies, where fate would conspire to connect events and have the characters die as creatively as possible...a virgin with an STD is just too creative a misfortune. You don't want any abstracted irony in the bad things that happen to you.

[MaleVolentworld]

I've had the morbid idea that I might catch an STD, say, off of a public toilet, shaking someone's hand, kissing a cousin, some maniac injecting it into me, whatever. I'm not a germphobe, not at all, it's just that, while getting an STD is a bad thing in general, a virgin catching an STD would be epic. It's like those Final Destination movies, where fate would conspire to connect events and have the characters die as creatively as possible...a virgin with an STD is just too creative a misfortune. You don't want any abstracted irony in the bad things that happen to you.

Lol that is funny.

It reminds me of my first adventure abroad aged 10 when I went to France. We were camping around France going from place to place and one day I had a incredibly itchy genitals, really bad. I didn't tell anyone or do anything but it stayed for a long time.

Then when I was older, say 15, I went into a pharmacy and asked for anti-crab stuff (I felt naked with everyone watching me on a stage) and I tried it out, nothing worked (didn't remove the tiny bumps, though the itching didn't last 5 years)

Then one day one of the tiny bumps got bigger so I went to a female doctor and told her my concerns. She told me to pull my trousers and boxers down, put on some big scary blue gloves and while holding my bits and looking into my eyes told me it was nothing and every man had them. She then asked if I would like her to check my testicles (with her hands) for any anomolies, so I let her...let me just say it was the best day ever at the doctor's, and if she took any longer I would have proposed :)

[ToC]

And my oral sex career comes to an abrupt and disgusted halt.

Instead of looking at porn in my lecture classes I should just look at STD pics.

[MaleVolentworld]

hahaha, but then people sitting nearby will think you get off on sexual diseases

[ToC]

hahaha, but then people sitting nearby will think you get off on sexual diseases

Thought that INTJf was where I could be myself! Don't judge :'(

[MaleVolentworld]

J is for Judge in INTJ :)

[Asinine]

I've had the morbid idea that I might catch an STD, say, off of a public toilet, shaking someone's hand, kissing a cousin, some maniac injecting it into me, whatever. I'm not a germphobe, not at all, it's just that, while getting an STD is a bad thing in general, a virgin catching an STD would be epic. It's like those Final Destination movies, where fate would conspire to connect events and have the characters die as creatively as possible...a virgin with an STD is just too creative a misfortune. You don't want any abstracted irony in the bad things that happen to you.

Eh, I think I might actually have caught an HPV variant several years ago from using a public shower. ...stupid cheap flip-flops. Luckily, just on my feet, and the writeup from the CDC says the virus dies off after a few years. So, as long as I didn't get cancer from it, I'm OK, I guess.

[alphawolf]

No, but I did get a real good scare once.

It is impossible to think or wait during very strong passion. Why do you think people literally rip each others clothes off, just to get each other naked as fast as possible? I even had condoms in my pocket.





alphawolf added to this post, 887 minutes and 4 seconds later...

Condoms don't prevent herpes and a person is infectious even if they don't have an outbreak. Just a sidenote to create more anxiety.

Genital herpes won't physically harm you much, though. They are just a pain in the ass.

I certainly would not consider a woman with genital herpes as "untouchable" or damaged.

Approximately 1 out of 8 americans have genital herpes. If you exclude people who don't have sex (young and old, as well as some other oddballs in the middle), then the ratio is probably more like 1 out of 5. Approximately 1 out of 3 americans have oral herpes. Imagine that.

[OneHertz]

Probably not. Got tested mid Dec, was clean, had sex with some girl late Dec and didn't test since. Probably not going to until 1-2 more encounters. Part of me doesn't want to know as long as there are no symptoms.

[FreeFall]

"So there was this blind man right? And he was feeling his way down the road with this stick, right? He stopped by this fish market, he took a deep sniff, he said, 'Whooooo, good morning ladies!'"



Nope, never caught an STD -- only been with one partner ever, and it's been well over a year since I last had sex. No signs of any STD.
Love the joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Me, STD-ed, not me, I am clean as a whistle!!!!!!!!!!!!

[intjdude]

"So there was this blind man right? And he was feeling his way down the road with this stick, right? He stopped by this fish market, he took a deep sniff, he said, 'Whooooo, good morning ladies!'"



See, this is why sushi always enters the sex conversation sooner or later...

Some people just keep picking up women at fish markets ... i guess it keeps their fallopian tubes clear





intjdude added to this post, 1 minutes and 29 seconds later...

I've caught just about every strain of STD out there... they are all in perfect harmony

[dragonsscout]

Masterminds. Innovators. Villains. Virgins.

Nope. Never had any sexual relations of any sort and my parents didn't have any STDs either (you can get some at birth, like HIV).

[Seppuku Savant]

No. I have my partners get tested for every STD possible, before I will even kiss them. They have to get tested 6 months after the last time they had sexual contact. I kid you not. Be celibate until we are cleared, or find someone else to date. My requirements are high. I also do the same for myself. STDs are practically an epidemic these days. Be safe. Not sorry.

[dogwoodlover]

Ok reading about this and seeing pictures of them sure helps me with my challenge, it makes me feel sick...and also slightly worried (she told me to, and then...I did)

Apparently, according to one source (sorry I forgot), about 1/4 of people have had an STD in their lifetime. However, you will never know unless you go and see a specialist, so you may actually have it and be unaware.


From what I have read, it's between one and three and one in four college students, and that 50% of the population will have contracted an STD by age 35.

[nacht]

The number is much higher than 25%.

The majority of the population catches some variation of HPV through sex, catches HSV as a child, and catches CMV prenatally. It's just that most people don't count oral herpes as an STD.

Frankly, having people "tested" before kissing them is paranoid. You can't even detect the diseases you would be worried about from kissing (HSV) unless they are currently being expressed. This goes double when it is already likely that you caught HSV as a child. There are so many other diseases to worry about when kissing someone, it is more than slightly paranoid to make sure someone has been "tested" for a narrow spectrum of diseases, most of which we can't find in a test except under specific circumstances, first.

Most people also catch HPV in their lifetime, and it damned near undetectable in males unless it expresses in the form of genital warts, which not all of them do and those that do will not express all of the time.

Yes, I have dated a woman with a genital infection of HSV-1. Pay attention, recognize there are anti-virals on the market, and it isn't an issue.

Frankly, there are only a handful of diseases that are truly "serious." Hep B and HIV come to the top of that list, both of which you can stop with a condom, one of which there is a vaccine for, and the other of which is easily detectable with regular screening.

So rather than "I may have but am too scared to test myself" let's just say "I may have but am completely asymptomatic and nothing shows up on the tests, but that doesn't mean I don't."

[LaoTzu]

No. I'm easy, but I'm careful too ;)

[Kisai]

No, but I've caught colds and strep throat once. It was so worth it, though.

I've been tested for AIDS. That's a scary test. Your mind keeps entertaining the possibility of what you're going to do with your life if you catch it.

I think most STDs are overly stigmatized by society. I'd rather catch any STD but AIDS instead of say, hepatitus.

[firebee]

No, but I've caught colds and strep throat once. It was so worth it, though.

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I think most STDs are overly stigmatized by society. I'd rather catch any STD but AIDS instead of say, hepatitus.

Ja. Think of the inconvenient, nasty, and sometimes dangerous diseases that you can catch just being around other people or eating food where you haven't verified how it was prepared. There isn't a sense of shame about picking up miscellaneous foot funk from the dorm shower or eating a questionable burrito that leaves you mostly horizontal for two days. Yet if that questionable burrito is Enrique's "burrito" and you pick up an annoying skin condition from it... much with the scarlet A.

In the end, it works out like most of the rest of your life. Take care of your health, and consider that if the things that will kill you right dead were that easy to catch, you'd be dead already. So says the optimism fairy :P.

[Sinequanon]

Do kids count?

[Lucid]

No, but I've caught colds and strep throat once. It was so worth it, though.

I've been tested for AIDS. That's a scary test. Your mind keeps entertaining the possibility of what you're going to do with your life if you catch it.

I think most STDs are overly stigmatized by society. I'd rather catch any STD but AIDS instead of say, hepatitus.

I've never been at high risk for AIDS, but I have them test for that too whenever I get tested. I mean I'm there, might as well. Better than not knowing and giving it to someone else.

Every time I have to call for the results that 1/4 of a second is the longest 1/4 second of my life. "Your results are....." And my whole life passes before my eyes... "Negative." *WHEW!*

I've never had any reason to think I might have it (I'm actually very careful), but I'm kind of a 'worst case scenario' person (part of the reason for being careful) and I tend to freak out needlessly.