[NWAtlSwing]

What about Hep C?

Originally Posted by two42lovers

Here's a question: do you ask your partners if and when they've been tested? Do you ask what kind of tests? No one has ever asked us if we were tested (not ever.) As it happens, we are tested twice a year - been playing for two years. We are active swingers, but we've never tested positive for anything.

Food for thought:
1) The easiest to contract, worst STI you can get is Hep B - easily transferred and incurable. There is a vaccine for Hep A & B - have you received it?
2)The worst, most difficult STI to get is HIV - not easily transferred at all.
3) Condoms don't prevent the two most common STI - herpes & HPV, both incurable. Herpes is almost never tested for unless there is visible evidence. There is no HPV test for men.
4)People who are "pee" tested for STI are not tested for any of the above - a blood test is required.

If you tested positive for an STI, would you tell your play partners so they could be checked? Or would you say nothing?