STD’s… see Adam, I save the interesting stuff for your page!
Ok, this topic isn’t broached very often, well apart form the herpes d’s on TV saying that all you need to do is take a tablet to get rid of them… It should be telling you how the hell not to get them in the first place or at the very least explaining that any contact of “down there” could actually result in contracting this disease.
Anyway, back to the reason I’m writing this post. I had a very limited sex ed at school, considering none of us were going to have sex out side of marriage, I spose the powers that be thought we wouldn’t need it… For goodness sake when we were at school our skirts had to touch the ground when we knelt down.
I went & did the adult thing a few weeks ago & got checked (all clear btw) & I proceeded to ask the doctor for some information on STD’s, what they are & how they’re contracted. Do you think she could give me any sort of information?
No.
Her answer was “ask me what you want to know”.
I felt like going, well honey, if I knew what I wanted to know I don’t think I’d be asking for information would I? Basically her advise “stick with one partner that you know well”. Lovely! & if I don’t want to do that…???
I’ve done a bit of research on my own, click here for a good website:
Herpies – “caused by oral-genital or genital-genital contact with a person.”
Chlamydia – “can be transmitted during vaginal, anal, or oral sex.”
Genital Warts – “caused by genital-genital contact with a person”
Gonorrhea – “is spread through contact between the penis, vagina, mouth, and anus. Ejaculation does not have to occur for gonorrhea to be transmitted or acquired.”
Syphilis – “is passed from person to person through direct contact with a syphilis sore. Sores occur mainly on the external genitals, vagina, anus, or in the rectum. Sores also can occur on the lips and in the mouth. Transmission of the organism occurs during vaginal, anal, or oral sex.”
HIV – they didn’t actually have a cool little fact sheet on this like the rest of them…
Considering it says that “Ejaculation does not have to occur for gonorrhea to be transmitted or acquired” does this mean that for the other STD’s ejaculation actually needs to happen for something to be contracted, well that would only really be Chlamydia, of the ones listed above, wouldn’t it…
What I’ve learnt (which is something I already knew) – If you bump uglys with someone you could contract a lovely little STD, either with or with out condoms. Is sex worth the risk… hmmm, that’d be a YES. Will I be even chooser about who I sleep with in the future… hmmm, that’d be another YES.
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