[sexcupid]

Well...on one hand, it is hard to pluck up the guts to tell someone that you have a nasty cootie bug (be it of the STD or other variety)...but dropping that kind of bomb on someone is major. They are probably in shock. While you want to think that people will still be cool with you...they may not. Yes, we all want to hope we take the high road and have everything stay the same. But human nature being what it is...they may not want to play with you anymore and they may or may not want to socialize with you.

While there is the risk for STDs doing this..telling someone they may have the clap probably has less of an ick factor to a playmate than some thing like MRSA. It just has a greater ick factor I guess. Partically because it is something that isn't common knowledge and there is a fear of the unknown...but still it is pretty serious.