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Are You Afraid To Be Tested?

By CocoaDiva on Aug 11, 2009 with Comments

In this day and age you would think nothing could surprise me anymore. As usual, a group of friends and I were talking about the lack of disease testing going on in the community. I believe 95% (hey I could be wrong) of young adults are sexually active, or have been in the past. Yet, the subject of sexually transmitted disease testing is an issue we skate past faster than a gold medalist in an Olympic heat. What gives?

AIDS didn’t go away, we just stopped hollerin about it. STDS affect people everyday but we ignore them. How often, when deciding to sleep with a new partner, do we bring up testing or request that a partner be tested? I am willing to bet a very low percentage of the time.

Even worse is giving someone else an STD and not telling them you are infected. Which is some real life, real talk BS. You know you are infected, so why pawn off your illness on someone else just to get your personal rocks off? We need to do better people. The deisre for sex, or someone not giving you them cheeks, in no way adds up to the risk you take for not informing someone you have a disease or not stepping up to be tested.

So, do we feel we are invincible?

Do you request your partners be tested Why or Why not?

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  • Good post. I think it is not about invincibility but a mixture of pride and "weighing the odds". We look at having an STD for instance, and it is such a stigma. Even saying, "I have had one in the past, but been treated" can make you sound "fast", "loose" or some other shameful label, even if that is not the story of your life.

    Then we look at the odds and really think the chances of running into someone amongst your circle with one can't be that great because you "know these people so well." If it is a random hook-up or one night stand, many mistakenly believe the odds of it hitting them out of EVERYONE probably doing the same thing is slim.

    It is a product of miseducation and teaching the community to be silent about it because the subject is so taboo and such a discredit to your character, when the solution to ridding ourselves of fear, is accepting it as something that we are not as judgmental about. We don't judge someone or label them for getting a cold. It would be great if the same lack of judgment existed around STDs
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