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Originally Posted by two4youinswva  Good point. I would imagine there may be some HIPAA considerations as well. That opens up a whole new angle on the whole concept. |
When you consider that most don't even want a club to have their real name/ copy of their DL on file... I definately can't see them wanting a club to have medical info on file for them.
And LM (I think it was) had a great point as well... who's going to police the club owners and make sure that they are actually enforcing the rules on EVERYONE including themselves? Short of everyone walking around the club with their paper in hand there is still no real guarantee, not that there really is anyway.
I know I'm taking a risk, but I know the risk I'm taking. I tend to agree that those who believe that asking for tests from their play partners puts them at less risk are decieving themselves. Unless as someone pointed out EVERYONE who played got tested. But that's not going to happen, because even if there become some swinger union and everyone who went to a club had to get tested, there are many swingers who play outside of clubs or even who play with people who don't consider themselves swingers... or who pick up single guys at a vanilla bar, or whatever they choose to do. All of those others who were not in the "swinger union" would not be getting tested regularly, so all it takes is one couple to hook up with one of those and hit the club a few nights later before anything shows up on a test.
Then you go back to the fact that not all STDs can be tested for if there are not symptoms present and you have another conundrum.
Would it reduce risk, maybe? But only on a surface level. In the end I think it would provide too many people with a false sense of security.