First HIV test in about 18 years, if not longer.....

As Eddie Murphy once said, (paraphrasing so fuck off before you correct me) "Sex these days is a gamble, and I've put my dick on the craps table many a night.". That's about what I've done.....been with many girls, most of whom I know where clean or recently tested, but then again there were a few in there that were just a roll of the dice.

So, visiting my parents this week on the eastern seaboard, we went to a street fair in a nearby college town. We temporarily split up to look around, and I stumbled on an AIDS prevention organization's tent stand where they were giving free 20 minute no-blood HIV tests. I figured "Fuck it, may as well get this done and settle it once and for all, just get it out of the back of my mind that there is SOME chance I could have picked up, you know...."something". So I did the test, which was done with saliva. I had to sit through some 10 minute couseling session given by a nurse with about five other college co-eds, most of whom were pretty cute. Then they told us ot come back with results in 20 minutes.

In that time my parents met up with me again near the tent and seemed remarkably unimpressed I had goine through with it, then I forced them to wait for the results. If my Mom had known how much I got around and how unsafely I did it, she woudl have been impressed I went through with it, but she seemed unimpressed still. It's just not the rite of passage for them the way it is for our generation I guess. So this counselor guy comes and takes me into the back of this nearby grungy old record store for some privacy. They ALWAYS pull you personally off to the side when they give the results. So he gave them to me.....negative was the verdict...I mean the results. I can't say how much of a relief this was. Like a lightweight yet persistently weighty stone was finally taken from around my neck.

I left as the other hopefuls showed up for their results. There was this weird kind of flirting I got from the girls just after I gave them the thumbs up from across the tent, as though, knowing I was AIDS free, I was destined to be fucked. It was odd. Oh well.

I knew before I even clicked who it would be

congrats on the result

thats great. I think more guys should be like u and go.

Your posts are always written so well. I love it.

i know exactly what you mean, wish i could get it done that easily

i keep trying to get my girl to do it... she has been around the block a few times, and i have only been with her (using protection always)

why wont she get it done? thats not really a good sign. dont to be harsh

yeah, i know... but i also try not to be a dick and push the subject too hard

she is afraid of needles, i didnt know there was a saliva test... where can i get that done for free?

Could be she's scared...I know the first time I ever got tested, I was scared out of my mind.

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I knew before I even clicked who it would be

Yeah, you really can see a Jeff post coming at you just by reading th subject header. Way to go on the results bud!

To be honest I will always be too afraid to come back positive I rather didn't know, but you are right doing it. Maybe I should do it sometime too.

The way I finally talked myself into it was "better the devil you know, than the devil you don't." If you know for sure that you're HIV+, then you can get treatment, support, etc. If you don't know, but you're still +, you can get sick and die. Me, I'd rather go with the treatment and support.

*wonders what life like jeff613 must be like*

i guess i know cuz i've done vd tests before = not fun

if you aren't sure about it because you had wild spread intercourse you really should take a test.
maybe not for you (it's too late anyway if you get a positive result ) but for the people that could be your next partner.
it's not just only fair it's a kinda ethnical must.

congrats

Thanks for all the congratulations. Al I can say is that I did have on my side the fact that if I had osmehting from any of the few skanks I had been with, chances are I would have been sick by now. But then again, taking the test is just a matter of stepping up and doing what you need to do. It's worth it, trust me. Call your health department and see if they do a saliva test where you live. They probably do since it is cheap, very fast and there are no lab fees involved. Everything theyneed to collect and process the sample is in one foil envelope. In fact they had us collect our own samples it was so easy.

I formally challenge everyone who needs ot get tested to do so here in the next two weeks and post the results here. Oh yeah, the girls at the tent said they had not gotten any positives that day.

Yeah well I'm not a little man whore so I don't have to worry about this sort of thing, washing my hands keeps me STD free.

you dont have to be a man whore to get an STD. Ever watch the movie KIDS, girl who was with a bunch of guys goes with her firend who was with one or two guys to get tested, the girl that was with less guys was the one that tested postive. WOW i cant believe that in this day and age a person still thinkf the way you do.

yeah but you have to agree the more you sleep around the more likely you are to catch an STD, and I know you can get lucky like in that movie.

Seems like Jeff wasted his time. I mean, you do have to have SEX to get an STD.

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yeah but you have to agree the more you sleep around the more likely you are to catch an STD, and I know you can get lucky like in that movie.

Yeah the more likely, but it doesnt exclude you if you slept with a only a few ppl. I mean honestly, for some1 to say they dont need to get tested, is a person who still thinks things cant happen to them, i.e. teens. which by loooking at your profile ur only 19 and i now understand why you still think that way. Any1 can catch an std, and that something everyone has to except.