I heard on the radio that Vancouver hosted a global conference on STIs this week and I also noticed a recent thread about the increase in the reporting of certain STIs.
As a purchaser of sex, do you take personal responsibility for the safety of the community by being regularly tested? Or do you place the responsibility for your safety on the sex workers you visit hoping they get tested regularly? If you do get tested, do you go to a walk-in clinic or your gp? If you test positive for an STI, do you reach out to all the sex workers you have visited since your last test to inform them? In the same circumstance, do you expect sex workers to reach out to you? Do you stigmatize STIs or people who have had an STI?
I am mainly interested because just like during flu season, if an undetected STI infected individual is super sexually active, it could victimize a lot of people in our community, both sex workers and purchasers, and beyond.
As a purchaser of sex, do you take personal responsibility for the safety of the community by being regularly tested? Or do you place the responsibility for your safety on the sex workers you visit hoping they get tested regularly? If you do get tested, do you go to a walk-in clinic or your gp? If you test positive for an STI, do you reach out to all the sex workers you have visited since your last test to inform them? In the same circumstance, do you expect sex workers to reach out to you? Do you stigmatize STIs or people who have had an STI?
I am mainly interested because just like during flu season, if an undetected STI infected individual is super sexually active, it could victimize a lot of people in our community, both sex workers and purchasers, and beyond.