I believe that your comment sums up the point you were trying to make in your entry. Perhaps reading the comment will help those understand the article a little more clearly.

I am not sure what you think I am defending DD but I would appreciate if this didn’t turn into one of your rants per usual.

I’m not saying that it’s not important to protect yourselves or be responsible if you know you have an STD. I’m saying that the people who have them are (just like) you or me and that it’s unfair to paint them as some unclean, unhealthy, loose individual who lacks morals which is exactly what the stigma is. That is exactly why I listed statistics about having HPV – because it is so common that it is unfair for folks to make those snap judgments based on assumptions.

It certainly doesn’t guarantee anything.

But that doesnt change the fact that its still something you have that can infect others. Nobody is nice to people with OTHER diseases, when I have so much as a cough people move away from me. It is just how people are. They are looking out for themselves.

Plus, most people have HPV, and sorry to say but it is a little bit different than herpes and HIV and other more severe STDs. HPV doesn’t do anything most of the time. It can be serious, sure, but its rare.

In any case.. I think their dating pool could be wider if they used standard sites but were up front about it. There are some people who wont mind. They may never fuck bareback, but they might luck out.

I have only been with one person,but he has been with about 12. He was in a monogamous relationship before me, but I guess that never guarantees anything.