You catch STDs even easier by wearing a condom (if not, the rate is at least exactly the same

lord_blackfang wrote:

Chrysaor686 wrote:Please note before you post in this thread that if you pass any judgement about any members for sharing any information regarding their STDs or sexual preferences, I will block you and you will receive no further response from me within the message board at all. I urge people who look to avoid stress and continue this important conversation to do the same.

Can I at least mock you for managing a viral disease with antibiotics?

This revelation made me realize that death by AIDs is just as preventable as death by diabetes,

Lord-blackfang wrote:Can I at least mock you for managing a viral disease with antibiotics?

Dickbandit wrote:You will have to elaborate on that one. Correct me if I'm wrong, but once HIV is contracted, it's impossible to stop. One way or another it WILL slaughter your immune system and contribute to a horrible death.

Chrysaor686 wrote:Please note before you post in this thread that if you pass any judgement about any members for sharing any information regarding their STDs or sexual preferences, I will block you and you will receive no further response from me within the message board at all. I urge people who look to avoid stress and continue this important conversation to do the same.

I just recently contracted herpes symplex one from a regular sexual partner of mine who ended up having a one night stand at a party. Because of our arrangement, I am not bitter about it whatsoever, mainly because I realized exactly how mild and treatable it actually is. I researched it extensively (15+ hours of cross-checking references and self-examination) as soon as I broke out, because like any machine-fearing man, I was taught at a young age that it was one of the most horrifying experiences a person can go through, and all of my other friends without herpes felt the same way. It was even a topic of hilarity among us at some point during pubescence. The worst part is, no school system or STD program really teaches you how to self-diagnose and prevent other people from becoming contaminated. They just show you the most horrifying pictures they can find of cases of STDs that have gone far beyond repair.

Chrysaor686 wrote:The first thing I noticed is that it feels exactly like poison ivy, only milder and easier to deal with. It behaves in exactly the same way, but it's much more easily preventable than any person is ever led to believe. Let's say you had an innoculation of both symplex one and symplex two in a place on your skin that is difficult to touch, and you covered it every time you broke out with a bandage or gauze to avoid contact with open sores. Not only would you never catch herpes on your mouth or genitals as long as you avoided contact with someone that has open sores (a place that is far less pleasant to have an outbreak, and even causes more itching and spreading of the virus, than, say, the back of your thigh) your immune system would become stronger from fighting it every day of your life and you would ultimately get sick less often and live longer, thus spending less money on doctor visits per year and living to see your social security benefits. Having herpes sores on your genitals makes you more likely to transmit and receive other STDs, but not if you only break out on an area that avoids sexual contact completely.

Chrysaor686 wrote:The second thing I noticed is exactly how much money I could be spending on herpes medication per year to help myself feel better socially (which is exorbitantly expensive and mostly inneffective) when it's the most easily treatable disease in the world. Avoiding sunlight makes you have less outbreaks, and I'm a night owl. Staying stress free also avoids outbreaks, and I like having an excuse to stay happy (I'm pretty manic depressive otherwise). Having a good immune system means that you won't break out as much and your outbreaks will be more tolerable, and I only get sick three times a year. The only terrible part about having it is fearing spreading it to other people and the completely ridiculous social stigma that comes along with it. You instantly become ousted by society for basically having a preventable and highly treatable form of poison ivy, and can only associate sexually with other people who have it. Then I realized exactly how many people have herpes, despite the seething hatred towards it. Nearly 50% of all people ever have it, in some form. Some were just lucky enough not to have it transmitted sexually, where it simply exacerbates itself.

Chrysaor686 wrote:Think about those last two facts for a moment. 50% of society is a lot of money in overpriced, government funded herpes medications that don't even manage to treat your symptoms as well as living a different life and using cheap antibiotics. More importantly, Herpes, nor any 'STD', does not have to be transmitted sexually at all. You're told to wear a condom from a young age to prevent STDs, but they don't prevent STDs whatsoever, simply because STDs are never explicitly 'sexual'. You get them anywhere they can find a spot to infect. Condoms don't allow you full penetration without genital contact, and that's how humans were designed to have sex. By wearing a condom, not only do you spend more money on sex and completely decrease your libido, you still transmit STDs just as easily (if not more easily because of the way latex actually breaks the skin on a penis after prolonged friction. It's basically incubating any STD your partner might have and allowing it to enter your body easier. I learned this by wearing a latex glove on one hand after it had already touched my sores, and now that hand is completely covered in them and will remain that way every time I have an outbreak), including both forms of herpes, syphilis, gonnorhea, hepatitis, HPV, and most importantly, AIDS. Which brings me to my next point.

Chrysaor686 wrote:I went to the free clinic to get tested for herpes, even though I was already completely sure by cross-checking the initial symptoms. I okayed the AIDS test, because I was more terrified of that, in all honestly. You know what they did? Pricked my finger (which causes herpes to transmit far more easily to my fingers, where they can infect other people) and came up with a result in less than a minute. I asked him how much the machine cost, and he slipped up and told me "About 500 dollars." 500 dollars. For infinite AIDS tests. This revelation made me realize that death by AIDs is just as preventable as death by diabetes, we just aren't given the means. We are expected to pay 20,000-30,000 dollars on AIDS medication a year once we do catch it, which is way too easy when you don't have a device that tells you in under a minute with a prick of the finger.

Chrysaor686 wrote:What also concerned me was how long they're taking to come up with any definitive result from my general STD test. Two weeks. That's enough time for me to transmit any easily curable STD to other people, who will ultimately funnel into the same fethed up system and repeat the cycle.

Chrysaor686 wrote:Thankfully my girlfriend kept some antibiotics because she's on permanent birth control and couldn't use them unless she wanted a baby during the time we could have sex. All of the most horrifying STDs are already gone, and I would've had to go back and pay a doctor to fill out a script (as well as suffered through it so I feared it even more) when I could've just as easily received the same meds over the counter with absolutely no hassle.

Chrysaor686 wrote:Now, I want you to think to yourself for a second. Why do you fear STDs so much? I'll tell you why, if you haven't already guessed it from reading this far. The government is trying to make sure that you get an STD just to empty your coffers on ridiculously expensive 'groundbreaking' medications. From this side of the fence, it's very easy to see this. I'm just glad I caught symplex 1 and not something worse first so I could educate myself about STDs to the fullest possible extent.

It's time to open your eyes. Innoculate yourself from herpes at the first opportunity, buy an AIDS test kit (it's worth every penny), and carry antibiotics (even if you have to lie to a doctor to get them), and you will never have to fear an STD again. And life without fear is a far more happy life, even if you can see things for how fethed up they really are. Trust me on this one.