Well, Illuminatus Primus gets it, at any rate. I don't see why the concept is a huge one to fight about or wrap your head around.
Further, I agree that people should be careful, but this doesn't mean they are not advertising safe sex or abstinance. I don't know about anywhere else, but you can't walk into a clinic around here without immediately noticing ads and pamphlets all about safe sex, statistics about sex, the benefits of abstinance, offers for free condoms, et cetera et cetera. Such places bend over backwards to deseminate that stuff. This is a back-up, however, because people don't always do all that. That is all it is. It's not going to take away from them preaching all about safe sex and limited partners and all that. Having been in those clinics and being tested for STDs before, you can't help but notice that such clinics are all about safe monogamous sex. However, they also know that reality is such that they have contingencies for when people don't do that. This is another contingency.
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Further, birth control pills to prevent pregnancy doesn't stop sexually transmitted diseases, and the Pill isn't exactly uncommon nowadays. STDs happen and contingencies should exist to limit the spread of diseases.
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Ok. I wasn't thinking about it from that specific angle. Fair enough. Let me just pull my knuckles off the ground long enough to type my concession.I participate in non-monogamous sex. I get tested every 4-6 months. Now, if someone LETS ME KNOW TODAY that they tested positive since I slept with them, I will STOP SLEEPING WITH ANYMORE PEOPLE and alert those I have slept with since, and instead of getting that regular test in a month, I'll get it next week.
If I wasn't told, I would've continued sleeping with more people, not have alerted my partners since the troubled one, and waited another month to get tested (yet I still would've been using condoms and following a policy of regular testing). By being informed, I potentially protect any partners I would've acquired in the meantime, and any partners my past partners since the infectee might have. Get it?
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One of the best things about STD clinics is you can snatch up fist-fulls of free condoms.
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This is true. It's the least they can do after the Q-Tip.Illuminatus Primus wrote:One of the best things about STD clinics is you can snatch up fist-fulls of free condoms.
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Don't even talk about it. Hear no evil...Gil Hamilton wrote:This is true. It's the least they can do after the Q-Tip.Illuminatus Primus wrote:One of the best things about STD clinics is you can snatch up fist-fulls of free condoms.
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Feel no horrible excrutiating pain as they shove an extra large swab down your penis?Illuminatus Primus wrote:Don't even talk about it. Hear no evil...Gil Hamilton wrote:This is true. It's the least they can do after the Q-Tip.Illuminatus Primus wrote:One of the best things about STD clinics is you can snatch up fist-fulls of free condoms.