Posted on 07/25/2019 9:03:39 AM PDT by fwdude
I have gay friends too, and they truly do not care about spreading AIDS. They consider having a straight man partner the ultimate thrill.
Women get AIDS from men who have it. AS editorial director of a publishing company, I published a book, “Romance to Die For,” by Fleur Sack, MD, about women who get AIDS from boyfriends, husbands who “tried” gay sex a couple of times. Or contracted it from other women. Many of them upscale, wealthy women.
At the 1992 Republican National Convention, socialite Mary Fisher gave a speech about contracting AIDS from her husband.
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/maryfisher1992rnc.html
I met her husband at an art gallery in Florida, pretty normal looking guy who turned out to be bisexual.
My ex had other women, which is why is is my ex, though I loved him dearly.. No way I was taking a chance with my health.
So the minute I left him, I had an AIDS test. And if I ever have another serious relationship, doubtful but not impossible at my age, I would insist that potential husband had an AIDS test. If he refused....sayonara.
Point its, you really don’t know.
Veto!
(the Girl)
These days it’s just a finger stick and the result is available in a few minutes.
I think anybody who has had medical care involving needles or invasive procedures should get one.
Not morons. See my post #41
I got a new PCP and the first thing he did is Bill Pad and run this piece of crap with out my permission, or even saying boo you might need 1. Since in my 70 yrs I’ve never participated in the activities that go with the disease there was NO reason other than Bill Padding to run it.
I was never a part of the Hippie crowd who are prone to it. Didn’t do drugs, smoke dope, risky sex.
Bet my husband got 1 too and never looked at it, he only looks at the Cholesterol crap.
You don’t really know who will get it. There are exceptions.
See my post #41
I’ve been married and faithful to my wife for 35 years. And vice versa. And yet every time I go to the urologist (for prostate testing), they say I should get tested for sex diseases. And I just say that’s there’s no need.
I’ve had to actively tell my doctor clinic NOT to worry about testing for HIV.
I’ll be 71 in 24 days, what was his excuse to Bill Pad, he went Oops that was not supposed to have been run thing when I pointed it out.
They can stop running Colon screens at 75, they can quit running Cholesterol ones too, I’m not changing my eating habits, Gastropresis dictates what I can digest, rest won’t and makes me to ill to eat it. 3/4th the test they run are needless. I’ve 4 Specialist, and the ENDO runs the same ones as the PCP. No reason to just bill padding.
Oh, I agree. Certain groups are unwittingly exposed to higher risks by their profession.
I just had major surgery and will probably have one done in the unlikely event that one of the surgery team was less than hygienic or if I received any blood products.
I got tested about 20 years ago when i sobered up been a good boy and married ever since
Arthur Ash was unavailable for comment
Will life-long nuns have to be tested?
Unfortunately, there are other ways to get AIDS. Accidental sticks from contaminated objects (needles, sharp edges that an infected has been cut and bled on), exposure to blood due to others’ injuries, transfusions, accidents in surgery and more.
And you can indeed get HIV through heterosexual intercourse - if the person you had unprotected sex with was infected. This is actually the most common vector for those not gay or drug using. And the person who infected you may not have been gay or drug using but someone *they* banged had been infected, etc., etc.
The portion of the population that HIV is currently spreading like wildfire through? Aging and retiring Boomers, surprisingly. They believe because they are past childbearing age they need not take precautions... because they’re having “safe” heterosexual intercourse. Especially in Florida retirement communities. Not even joking.
Lived in a house with adopted grandkids, from the Ukraine that had HIV. All of the other members of the household have never gotten HIV. If one is monogamous, and not sleeping around, or putting the viral member in a heavily infested bacteria, virus rectum....WHY SHOULD WE GO GET TESTED. It really sucks to sleep around.
But is your wife/partner? Are you absolutely sure?
That’s the problem with that line of thought.
See posts 41 and 53 please.
He got HIV from a blood transfusion, back before they screened blood donations for HIV and AIDS.
See posts 41 and 53 please.
See posts 41 and 53 please.
News flash - some states no longer allow screening for HIV in blood donors.
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