Texas,
You're right about the recurring themes, and I know where you are coming from as you got flamed left and right for your "getting-tested-before-going-bareback" approach.
I didn't want to get into that discussion. Why, you ask?? Well, because I thought your approach was dumb. And Texas, hear me out, because I do not mean that in an offensive way...
The truth is that we are ALL dumb in terms of taking risks. Look at me, for example, I used the thickest condoms I could find, thinking it would be "safe", and a condom broke on me inside one of the most popular ho's in the city... Am i clean? I don't know, and I won't know for another couple of weeks. We ALL are not being smart, or are ALL taking a big risk, or being dumb as I put it... we qualify for ALL of those by the mere fact that we MONGER!! If you want to eat box, you take a risk, if you use a condom that has a chance of breaking, you take a risk. WE ALL TAKE A RISK IN THIS HOBBY.
So as u can see, what I'm saying is I had no reason to flame you when I am dumb myself...
Now, there is such thing as a more calculated risk, but that to me, to some degree does not hold water. If you DATY or have sex without a condom, you play russian roullette. If you monger and do everything with protection, you are still playing russian roullette, just with less bullets in the chamber... And anyone who plays russian roullette, in my book, has no concept of what safety REALLY is. So what if you have only one bullet as opposed to ten bullets in a twenty-round chamber (I know that a 20-round chamber doesn't exist... just go with it and don't break my balls)... you're still being an idiot by playing the game.
That doesn't mean that I throw caution to the wind and be completely careless... don't misunderstand me, I NEVER have sex without condom, but man, I sure love bbbj's!!! I am as safe as my personal preference and my own conscience allows me to be. If I am up at night stressing about what I did, then that's the perfect litmus test to know that I probably crossed my own internal line of comfort
Bottom line, abstinence is the only 100 percent sure way of being safe in it's truest form. Even monogamy is unsafe, as you have to trust another human being into being honest too... I've gotten one STD in my life, the clap, and I got it from one of two girls in my life that I was truly monogamous with... go figure, eh? Someone stand and clap for monogamy (um, no pun intended).
So let's all "be safe" in however you personally see that to mean to you.
But trust me, to some degree (some more than others, some less) all the "recurring themes" noted by Texas belong nowhere in the vicinity of the word "safe".
Not playing high and mighty here, my friends, that behavior does not exist in me. Just thought to type out some thoughts that ran through my head as I was reading this thread.
I'll be the first to say...
I'm guilty as charged your honor, I... am dumb.
Ruffnutz
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