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DW

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I will be out of town for a few days and won't be able to answer questions. If you would like to email me at DWooley97@aol.com I will answer you on my return. What's wrong with me? What should I do to prevent getting a disease? These are the kinds of questions I can answer for ladies or men. Please ask me any questions about STD's (Sexually Transmitted Diseases)that you would like to talk to a woman about. I'm not a medical professional but have 23 years of counseling experience.

Mark Behar

U.S.
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Almost any question or concern about sexually transmitted infections, abnormal Pap smears, anal cytology (anal "Pap smears"), gay men's health issues. There is no such thing as “d/d free” or “clean” (free of infection), so why do so many of us deceive ourselves into thinking that some people are indeed totally free from a potentially infectious disease, like HIV, herpes, hepatitis, syphilis, chlamydia, warts, gonorrhea, etc., just because they say so? Clinical laboratory tests are not perfect, and having a “negative” or “nonreactive” test does not mean that a person is free from infection. Perhaps at the moment the test was taken, the person was uninfected; or, perhaps, the test wasn’t sensitive enough to detect presence of the infection. There is really no way that anyone can determine that they are truly “disease free,” and there are over a hundred of infectious conditions that can be spread without your knowing anything. Rather than trying to “prescreen” or “serosort” a potential sex-mate with deceptive questions that are impossible to know by today’s technologies, a wiser option may be to consider everyone infected with something, and either use appropriate protective measures (“safer sex”), or accept the responsibility and conseqences of possibly .....

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2012-02-09 I just want to know, so please help:

Hello Joshua,  This  list is to discuss sexually transmitted diseases, not normal sexual development and physiology. Masturbation is not abnormal by itself, but if you are obsessed with doing all the time

2012-02-08 fecal matter public bathroom, real risk, potty training:

Hi Sherri,   If it were as easy to get terribly sick from public washrooms, we'd all be sick!  It is difficult to avoid exposure to bathroom germs even if you wash your hands correctly all the time, and

2012-02-07 Is this an STD?:

Hi Again, DJ,   The bumps in the second photograph more clearly show a variation in the skin known as "lichen nitidus" a benign condition of the skin (anywhere, not just on the penis) that may come and

2012-02-07 PINK SPOTS ON PENIS:

Hello Allen,  Your having a positive IgG antibody test for herpes means that you had an infection in the past. The rash you are experiencing is NOT acute herpes. You may have a skin fungus that is causing

2012-02-06 HIV transmission:

Hello Jose,  Your touching a wet vagina (they usually have some degree of moisture!) with your finger, even if it had "micro cuts" is not sufficient for you to become infected with HIV, if your partner

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