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Science: Health: Sexually Transmitted Disease
"Free and Clear" Card   (+2, -1)  [vote for, against]
Keep clean or collect 'em all; know what you're getting when you get into bed.

How many times have you been at a party and seen a guy who you know has been in a different bed every night of his college life, and wonder what he's spreading around? Or maybe a girl that rumor has it is, "to die for", and sadly such is a requirement of spending the night with her?

STD's are easy to catch but sometimes impossible to get rid of, and just as often impossible to detect before you hop into bed. But not anymore! Just as certain immunization shots and physicals are required to enter certain levels of education, to progress to college one must get a complete check for all known STD's and recieve a card with any transferrable diseases written clearly on it.

Made purposely difficult to forge, this card has the swinger's name, picture, social security number, signature, and date of checkup along with a complete list of what you're getting into bed with. It can be updated as often as daily, or as infrequently as never, but that will show up on the card. Integrating displaying your 'Clear' card proudly before engaging in any sexual conduct into society would be as unsexy as condoms, but just as life-saving and widely used.

A standard STD test at most clinics costs about $90 US, but free clinics will take whatever donations can be made for the service, which is a small price to pay compared to other requirements for higher education. The issue of privacy is covered by the docter-patient confidentiality. After that, it is your own decision to show anyone you card, or to keep it at all.

Making the card difficult to forge means that not only will you need to pay hundreds of dollars to get a card which mistakenly claims you to be clear, it means you are spending hundreds of dollars into tricking people to sleep with you when you know you have an STD. Only the ballsiest and most evil of people would actually go to such lengths for sex.

Of course, having a mark on your card doesn't mean the end of your sex life. People with matching cards have no prejudice against each other and, of course, if some siren lures you into bed along with something you don't mind so much, it's your decision to back out or pull out.
-- Cheekio, Jun 13 2004

Fake IDs: Not just for getting liquored up anymore...
-- Guncrazy, Jun 13 2004


Coitus Informatis. Caveat Lector.
-- ConsulFlaminicus, Jun 14 2004


I understand that it's not uncommon for people to require evidence of a clear HIV test before engaging in sexual congress; this just extends the notion to other STDs (which is a sort of "me too", or "like x only bigger / better / etc") and makes it compulsory ("let's all" / advocacy).
-- angel, Jun 14 2004


There are so many rants here, just waiting to happen.
-- Detly, Jun 14 2004


[marked-for-deletion] Let's all.
-- DrBob, Jun 14 2004


The idea is to change already existing regulations. If the regulations didn't already exist, I'd gladly agree it's "let's all", but as it stands it is merely a modification to a practice that is already in effect, albeit widespread.

And [angel], have you ever been presented with paperwork? At a party? My experience disagrees with your statement and I'd appreciate it if you went into detail about your //not uncommon// reference.
-- Cheekio, Jun 14 2004



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