Online STD Risk Assessments

[Trojan Defense]

Originally Posted by highlander

I'm not sure how big the niche for swinging would be even if STD's were absolutely zero concern. I suspect that even STD's were gone tomorrow, lots of people would find other reasons not to swing. That said, I think there _would_ be an influx into swinging broadly defined if there was an aspect of swinging that was clearly much safer than today.

Unless I'm overlooking something, I would think the reasons people choose not to swing, or engage in any illicit sexual activity could fall into one of two broad categories: moral/religious convictions/social norms, and health concerns. Once health concerns were addressed, then that theoretically eliminates the group who's sole objection to swinging was based on health concerns. That said, I would agree that it is unclear exactly what the numbers are on that, and that my statement is more a matter of opinion than fact, but even if we were just talking about 1% of the US population, or not even that much, maybe 1/2% of the US Population, that would fit within my definition of "many" since we are talking about a population that is on such a large scale.

Originally Posted by highlander

I think the bigger aspect of the whole serosorting thing is it takes folks into a more intential mindset on relationships in general-as opposed to a "spontaenous" mindset. There are a lot of folks that are real up tight about doing anything that smack of looking for a relationship or sex.

I suppose I could see that. Sort of like social anxiety disorder, except we might replace the word social here with sexual, in which case maybe a third miscellaneous category as to why people don't swing might be described as being for psychological reasons/hang-ups.

[highlander]

I think that swinging isn't for everybody. Lots of people that try it don't stick with it.

Boyond the moral/religious objections-and just whether people like it:
it is a question of what someone's goals are-and how swinging really fits into them. Now, the STD issue obscures some of that.

That said:
I think that a lot of folks don't undertanding well just how swinging might be a positive thing for them

[Trojan Defense]

Originally Posted by highlander

Boyond the moral/religious objections-and just whether people like it:
it is a question of what someone's goals are-and how swinging really fits into them. Now, the STD issue obscures some of that.

That it does, or at the very least, complicates things.

[Trojan Defense]

Since its not exactly a black and white issue, perhaps a better way of me saying it is, to whatever extent health concerns are an impediment to swinging, is the extent to which swinging would be viewed as a relatively safe activity once those health concerns had been addressed.