[good times]

We have friends who have HPV, they are not in the lifestyle but their experience with it got me thinking. Which led me to do a lot of research on HPV. Unfortunately, their is either a lot of BS out there regarding HPV, or very few of the people who have researched it can agree. The reason I say that is you can read the conclusions of five different studies, and all five will have totally different results with very little agreement on anything.

Their are a few general trends in what is believed about it though. The one that surprised me the most is that, depending on who you believe, anywhere from 40% to 90% of the population of the US is believed to have been exposed to HPV by the time they reach 40 years of age. Which implies that in all likelihood, if you believe this, either you or most of the people you have played with either has it or has been exposed to it. In which case, again if you believe the research that supports the claim, you have already built up an immunity to it, and are therefore not at risk or at least not at as high a risk.

So the bottom line for me would be, how long ago did they test positive and do they still test positive for HPV? If they are currently positive, then yes the temptation to tell my playmates about it is definitely there. Because frankly, I wouldn't want to play with someone who is currently positive for it, nor would I want to play with anyone who had played with them. Whether it would be right or wrong to tell others, I don't know, but then again, were I them, and found out I was positive for something like this, I wouldn't be swinging in the first place.