How does having multiple partners increase your chances of getting an STI?

The question is, what do you read...?

Every sexual partner you have, you share fluids with, and you are at risk of contracting their STI. So if you had 5 partners, there's a good risk that you could be exposed multiple times to the same STI (thereby raising your chances of contracting it), or to multiple different STIs. Now, if these 5 people had 5 different partners each, that increases the risk exponentially.

There's a saying going around, it goes something like, "All the people your partner slept with, you slept with them, too."

More partners = more risk.

 

Definitely. You can't catch an infection (of any type) if you aren't exposed to the relevant infectious agent. As far as STIs, if you limit who you do it with, you will limit your risk.

 

There is no such thing as "safe sex" only safer sex. Now, if you are using condoms and dental dams (as appropriate), then you do have a significantly lower risk than if you weren't using those, however your risk is still higher than if you didn't engage in those activities. None of the barriers are perfect, and may potentially be defective or break, that's the reason the risk is still higher.

 

Oh Yes it will specially if your not using protection when having sex . If you don't want STDs I suggest all of you get tested every month before having sex and also new partners you wanna have sex with .

 

Yeah, sure, but the whole "getting tested every month" isn't going to really protect you. Once you got it, you got it, no matter how early it was caught. I feel like the, "Oh but I get tested every month!" thing is just a rationalization for casual sex and I have a really hard time accepting it.

Awkwardtalker, if you could link to one of these documents that said that, I'd love to see it. I must say I am shocked.

And condoms and dental dams and all that jazz aren't 100%. It just takes one time where they ripped and bingo, you're infected... I think someone posted a thread about how he got infected with herpes on this forum. Read it and you'll see what I mean.

 

Frequent testing is encouraged is to allow infected individuals to be aware of their status when considering continuing their future romantic and sexual endeavors. Not to mention, the physiological effect of many STD's and STI's can definitely be minimized the earlier they are caught; whether they are curable or not. That is why health professionals advise frequent testing.

 

Yeah but i prefer doing that than doing nothing. I'm a monogamous person so I don't like having more than one partner but with causal sex and other partners it gets more complicated Also do you remember the name of that thread I would to read it

 

Yes, of course I get that. But I still feel like frequent testing is used by many as a way to rationalize sexual practices which are extremely risky. Once you test positive, chances are that damage has already been done (or risked) to a partner, no matter how early you catch the infection.

@Stocking, it is called "herpes simplex 2"

 

Yeah you have a point there . thanks for the link:icon_bigg