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Originally Posted by highlander  The statistical odds of someone who has tested negative for a range of STD's acquiring one over a year is _different_ than someone who has never been tested(and for that matter someone who has tested positive and gotten treatment). |
You keep making this statement, even though several have tried to explain to you that this idea is preposterous.
The fact is their is zero statistical difference between the odds of someone who has been tested contracting an std compared to someone not tested. If both people have sex with the same person, who has an std, whether they previously were tested or not makes absolutely no difference. That is like trying to claim that the std virus knows you get tested so it will leave you alone in favor of a victim who doesn't get tested. The bottom line is, testing can only tell you about your past sexual contacts, it has zero impact on your future sexual contacts. The very next person you play with could have an std, whether you, or they, have been tested or not.
A further fact of the matter is, testing will make no significant difference to the odds of contracting an std unless a significant portion of people in your sex circle all get regular testing, and more importantly, never play with anyone who hasn't been tested. My point, and I believe the point of most of the logical thinking people here is, that is an impossible expectation in swinging. Even amongst those of us who have been tested, I have never met anyone in swinging who got tested often enough to significantly alter the odds of them, or anyone they play with, contracting an std. And to think otherwise is an extremely desperate attempt at grasping at any false sense of security one can find, in my opinion.
Anyone who has read many of my posts on the subject knows that I am a relatively outspoken critic of the dubious, largely mythical claims of the effectiveness of condoms for preventing the spread of most std's one would encounter in the lifestyle. But even I will freely admit that when dealing with a group of folks that all use differing methods of risk reduction, condoms are several orders of magnitude more effective than testing is now, or could ever be, unless it was required for all swingers. And requiring testing at one club, while the rest of the swinging community does not, or rarely gets tested, would make an infinitesimally small or, more likely, no statistical difference whatsoever.