Lowering your risks by playing safe helps. Knowing your partners play safe is best. Always make sure the lights are on to see the body parts are not infected, or have an outbreak helps. There is no 100% safe unless you’re abstaining from sexual activities.
We all know the potential health risks associated with this amazing hobby. I am just wondering how the men navigate the risk of transmission when a significant other is involved. I had a bad experience a few years ago with HPV. I have not been active in the community for a number of years and I am eager to return but I am concerned that it could happen a second time. Yes I always use protection but it,s never 100 percent.
No such thing as zero risk in this space, or anywhere else for that matter.
Up to you to: 1. Understand the risks, 2. Find and take mitigating steps to prevent or resolve adverse outcomes, and then 3. Decide if the benefits to you outweigh the risks.
The more time you spend working on #1 and #2 above, the easier it will be to do #3.
The only people who have zero risk of anything bad happening are no longer alive.
Playing sports? No. Skiing? No. Rock climbing? Nope. Driving your car? Negative. All we can do is lower the risk as best we can. . Personally, I get tested every three months (I actually line it up when I change my hvac filters in my house so I don’t forget lol) . I hear your bigger point but sex with beautiful young women is just not something I am going to forego bc it comes with some inherent risks. . I would argue why bother living at all if you couldn’t bed hot young beauties? Lol
"when a significant other is involved." If you mean it's a three-way with your SO and a provider, then you should have a conversation about what the future looks like if either one of you catches an STD and the other one doesn't get infected.
If you are talking about maintaining your secret life AND continuing your relationship with your SO after giving her/him an STD, that's an almost impossible situation to navigate successfully, as evidenced by the many posts here over the years from guys who have blown up their relationships by being careless and getting caught due to a transmission of infection. This is only slightly MORE aggravating to an SO than you leaving your computer logged onto TER where she notes your username login and can see everything you have been up to. Giving her an STD is worse because YOU made the decision for HER to take the risk WITH you, and SO's are seldom sympathetic in being consoled that you didn't tell her because you didn't want to worry her.
With that said, each of us has to make an individual decision as to what our risk tolerance is. Eveyone's personal situation is different. If you can't survive a nuclear outcome, where she leaves and takes everything you have, then the best course is to take a few MORE years off, find some financial success somewhere, and put yourself in a position where you can survive a breakup. Better still, if you are set financially and don't care if she leaves because there is plenty of money to go around to keep everyone, including you, happy, then there is very little risk, IMO. You will lose your SO, and as awkward as it might sound, you can bring a provider to the family Thanksgiving dinner and then have a session afterward. Lol
"Your immune system will attack the virus, and it will likely be gone within two years. Of the millions of cases of HPV diagnosed every year, only a small number become cancer." - Gina Van Thomme and Heather Alexander, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Lowering your risks by playing safe helps. Knowing your partners play safe is best. Always make sure the lights are on to see the body parts are not infected, or have an outbreak helps. There is no 100% safe unless you’re abstaining from sexual activities.
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