I'm on backup birth control... I get a shot once a month, so *that* really isn't a concern for me. Thank God!!!!

I would wash up, but not douche... from all I've read, doucheing usually does more harm than good. By all means if you are not on backup birth control (I honestly think you SHOULD be, but ok), call Planned Parenthood about emergency contraception.  I've taken it before (back in my *boyfriend* days) and it is really not a big deal... it's two pills, that's it. Costs about $30. It will start your period tho, no matter where you are in your cycle.

Planned Parenthood btw, does charge (at least, I never got anything for FREE there even when I was a broke college student), but they try to do it based on your income level. Of course you can always say you are broke, but I don't think most of us LOOK like your average homeless broke person, honestly! But their fees are minimal.

The next thing I would do is be calm and remember that the odds that I will have an HIV positive client on the ONE DAY a condom breaks on me, are lower than the odds that I'd get struck by lightening walking down the street.

Then I'd go get tested! For EVERYTHING. The odds are much higher that I'd pick up some annoying but curable lesser STD.

I think in the vast majority of broken condom cases, it happens long before any sperm is present... at least I know for myself, that has been the case... so one of the things you GUYS can do is pay attention to it and make sure, especially when changing positions and stuff, that all is well with our lil' rubber lifesaver there! Take a peek Don't forget about SLIPPAGE. I know that at the end of things my lil' coochie has a tendency to suck those condoms right offa you! Hold on, and pull out. Hehe!

My final note... I don't know why but I think Magnum XL condoms are more prone to breaking.  I have never had a Kimono or Crown condom break, or a Trojan or Trojan large.

Hugs*
Nicole

Great link.  Now if they can only get this case heard in an American courtroom they should get a windfall.  If McDonalds has to pay millions for making defective coffee just think what these guys can get. LOL!

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But lets say she want to stay single and free then we both better do what the TERapist say.  1) pray; 2) visit a mental health professional

Hand sanitizer is not necassarily a good thing to use internally, even if it has kept away bacterial infections.  Your body also produces "good" bacteria and if you continually kill it with the sanitizer, you are leaving yourself wide open for other various infections, including severe yeast infections.  I am not a doctor, but I am a LPN.  Just my .02

Dyvine

Ginger, I was good friends with an escort who had a nervous doctor as a client.  He wanted to continue seeing her, naturally, but was someone who always worried about infections.

The doc made the lady douche with a product called Betadyne (I believe) prior to seeing him.  You can buy it over the counter at the drugstore and it's often prescibed to people prior to surgery for killing surface bacteria etc.  I believe she diluted it before use (best read the bottle for different uses).  Since it's designed for this type of thing, and since my friend used it for a couple years without problems, I think you'd be much better trying it rather than hand sanitizer (ouch).  

BTW, the doc died of a heart attack (he was old), so I guess he was worrying about the wrong part of his anatomy.

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