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Originally Posted by LikeMinds321  Every time I see threads like this appear I always have the same thoughts. It's about time I write them down.
For a moment, forget about HPV being a swinging topic.
If I was single and dating these past five years, rather than swinging with my husband, I'd have had sex with more men. Why? Because when a couple swings there has to be a 4-way click or sex doesn't happen. Over these years I've met many men I would have chosen to have sex with, but my husband wasn't interested in their wife, or she wasn't interested in my husband, so I didn't have sex with these men.
If I was a single woman, not involved in swinging, I'd be having sex, and much more than I do as a married swinging wife. I think sex is important, healthy, fun, and a necessary engagement when considering a potential long-term partner. To elliminate sex based on fear would be unreasonable to me. I would take the precautions to prevent HPV and not worry what "could" be.
I enjoy living life without uneeded fear. I like sex being a part of it.
LM |
So true! Then again, if more singles put as much thought into prevening STDs as want to be/soon to be swingers do... we'd have a lot lower incidence of STDs overall. Perhaps the fact that so many couples really do think about it when getting into swinging is why the incidence of transmission through swinging IS so much lower than through general sex.
When we are single we do typically just go at it and have fun and don't worry about it. Those who wear condoms every time when they are single are the exceptions! Couples who choose to wear condoms every time have each other to hold them accountable. Other couples just stick with the same MO they held when they were single... didn't wear them then, so why worry about it now? How is swinging really any different than when we were dating? And why do we make so much more of a big deal about STD prevention than we did when we were single?
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Originally Posted by tantric2 |
I think someone else already pointed this out... but 1. The vaccine is only available to a SMALL subset of the FEMALE population. 2. It only covers a small subset of the HPV viruses.
As to the original question, I don't see HPV as being downplayed either, at least not any moreso than any other STD. It is a risk and you have to choose how much of a risk you are going to take. Driving a car is a risk, but you choose to do it, and many who choose to do it, choose to reduce the risk by wearing a seatbelt.