Safe App for Disclosing STD Status

[Bizzx6 17]

I am curious how people would react to using something like the "Safe App". It is an app where one uploads testing data and shows your status of various std's and when the test was last taken right on your phone. While I understand that one can never be 100% sure about your partner's immediate status, it seems to me that someone who does test regularly and who is proactive enough to use such an app for disclosure to prospective sex partners and to require disclosure, is a lot less likely to have an std and to unknowingly transmit one. I certainly would be more comfortable with someone who had a full panel of tests a month ago than someone who never had a test.

 

It seems to me if such a thing became more prevalent and customary among the swinger community, it would go a long way to reducing the possibility of unwittingly contracting something and increasing people's comfort with swinging.

 

Thoughts?

[njbm 2,872]

I’ve said it before on this site, do not want to be Debbie Downer, but you test for every STD known to humanity on July 9, you sleep with Typhoid Mary on July 10 and you show a new partner your test results on July 11. They are worthless.

 

Spread the dates out a little for the incubation period, but you get my point.

[lcmim 1,082]

njbm, I do not think anyone supporting this type of idea is suggesting that it provides any type of guarantee.

There is merit , however, in the idea that someone who has been active for a few years and comes up clean is probably safer than someone who has been active for the same time and has not tests at all.

 

This is the same type of thinking that causes us to stay clear of people that we know to be "high traffic zones" even though there is a possibility that one of their partners could easily share our bed. There certainly is no surety of pedigree with our partners and our partners partners. It still seems prudent to stay clear of the most active amongst us.

[njbm 2,872]

We both have a healthy fear of STDs and we know friends who had or have them from the LS. Safer is better than nothing, which is why we test and use condoms. But sometimes we contemplate LS retirement while we still have our health. Men cannot get tested for HPV, which may be the most likely and risky STD ( throat cancer and cervical cancer and anal cancer), other than HIV/AIDS.

[Ozzie+Harriet 84]

Jeez, what is it with needing an app to do everything these days? Next it will be an app to wipe one's ass. Yeah, go get that STD app and when the data are compromised and someone dumps the database for the world to see, stand there amazed wondering how that could possibly happen all in the name of wanting a false sense of security.