STD question for SP's

[stugotsms]

I've been in this hobby for about 15 years. Luckly I have not had a STD. Wearing a condom can help protect both John and SP. Would you as a SP inform a client of current STD's mainly Herpes or Warts if asked? Most of the time like warts can take years to show so hard to tell. But with herpes, it can still be transfered even without an open sore. If this question is not a good one, the mods can delete it.

Is it more common to catch herpes with a one night stand than a SP?

Are SP's concern with this?

Why I ask? Some SP offer BBBJTCCIM, facials etc, do they offer this because they already have something and they don't care? Why would A SP expose themsleves to STD's. I know that BJ's are considered low risk but all it takes is a cold sore. Think about it, if a SP sees on avg 5 people a day, 5 days a week, that's 100 people a month. (It could be more) If 1 in 5 have herpes... think about it.

Any comments?

Thanks

 

[Svend]

SPs in general are very knowledgeable about STDs but we shouldn't look to them to educate ourselves.
It ruins the mood of the session.

 

[Flavia]

Take Caution

Most girls take the appropriate percautions. I would defintely be weary of an SP or an MPA that is willing to do things without protection - as you have noted we see many clients, there is a definite risk in hobbying and you need to protect yourself. On that note, I have dealth with matters such as this in one of three ways:
1. I have passed clients on to another willing MPA ( telling her why i wont stay with him of course) or
2.have offered just a massage if there are suspicious lesions on or around the johnson.
3. With delicate matters like these one would suggest that it should be approached subtly (spelling?) but that is often interprered ambiguously and so often times I have been direct.


Noone likes to talk about this stuff of course i mean we all just wanna have fun enjoy eachother etc. but if you do have an STD please be considerate and let your MPA or SP know and that goes for the girls too of course. Lets try to keep our hobby as safe as possible because it is quite an exciting one.

 

[SSS]

"STDs occur most commonly in sexually active teenagers and young adults, especially those with multiple sex partners. An estimated 200 to 400 million people worldwide are infected—representing men and women of all economic classes."
It is obvious that hobbying is not the main target as being an adult and adult related to a "risky" profession puts on more responsibilities and closer look at the problem in general, but I wouldn't be sure for 100% on individual self-education of some "hobby-related" activists unless people have very high standards on own safety and health.
Most STDs cause relatively harmless disease, producing few or no symptoms. However, some produce persistent asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic disease (e.g., chlamydia). Some people carry the disease for days or weeks, while others carry the disease for longer periods, even for life. During this time, an infected individual, or carrier, can spread disease in many cases not knowing that he/she is a carrier of it.
Prevention is possible only if sexually active individuals understand STDs and how they are spread.
The risk for transmission is dramatically reduced with the use of condoms.

~IriSSS~

 

[SSS]

just one more thing:

"The following behaviors and conditions can increase the risk for STDs:

* Engaging in sexual activity when either partner has unhealed lesions (e.g., genital herpes sores, genital warts)
* Enema or rectal douching before rectal intercourse
* Rectal or vaginal irritation or infection
* Sexual activity that may damage the mucosal lining of the vagina or rectum
* Tampon use (Tampons can cause vaginal dryness and cellular abnormalities. Sanitary napkins, either disposable or washable cotton pads, are recommended.)
* Vaginal dryness (Water-based lubricant is recommended.)"

each of us for some reason think that if it happens it happends to someone else... very careless to belive in it... Myself, being paranoid of STD's trying to get as much information as it is possible from various sources, I notice with the time it gets so mechanical that you belive you know the symptoms and can recognize the symptoms, still scared to miss something out... BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW...

But then for best results - don't do it!
If you're not sure it is safe - DO NOT get involved!

Sit at home and watch TV.
it is safe... unless your TV blows up... but then YOU NEVER KNOW...

 

[JoyfulC]

Herpes (HSV-I) is most commonly transmitted to young children from adults in their lives who kiss on them.

These aren't perverts kissing on them -- just your standard parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, godparents, etc.

On the one hand, I know people who suffer horribly from oral herpes in their adulthood -- but what would have been a better solution? That no one kissed them as an infant? We don't know how that might have affected them!

HSV-2 is the genital form of herpes, but other than its preferred location of embedding, it's no different from the oral HSV version.

People who equate this to HIV/AIDS are a bit misinformed. I think that HSV is not much different than the common cold -- we've mostly all been exposed. Myself, I'm lucky -- I rarely get colds or flus (or at least I rarely get the manifestations of them -- I'm damned sure I'm exposed) and I have never had an oral cold sore or an incident of genital herpes. But does this mean that I've never been exposed? Or that I haven't been infected? Frankly, I don't believe it!

You should know that condoms do not provide complete protection from either HSV or HPV (warts). Abstinence is the only sure fire protection -- but how much fun is that?

I'm not suggesting that you take no protections -- it's just that maybe you have to find some in-between ground. You don't want to be Typhoid Mary -- but you don't want to end up being a Howard Hughes, either, afraid to cut your toe nails and wearing kleenex boxes on your feet.

Educate yourself!

..c..