I hear statistics like "1.5 million new chlamydia infections per year in the U.S." and it sounds a bit unbelievable. If you filter out the two-thirds of people who are old, young, celibate, monogamous, etc., there would have to be some high rates in the remaining pool of sexually actives!

For me, in 30 years of male-male sex averaging about 15 partners/contacts per year (more in some years, much less in others), I never once tested positive for a "Big 4" STD. (meaning one of HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis)

Until recently. I had a wild (for me) three weeks of bottoming in gay bookstores and bathhouses. I am on PrEP. It so happened that, for a month, my daily Truvada would be combined with an extra medicine like in PEP. I figured that if there was one time in my entire life when I could allow myself to be a giant cumslut, this was it. All told, in my first three weeks of doing PrEP + Tivicay for a month, I took probably about 50 separate cocks with about 15 anonymous raw loads in my ass and 15 or 20 swallowed.

At the end of that, for the first time in my life I finally tested positive for oral and rectal chlamydia. Asymptomatic: the reason I found out was, my getting tested before and after the slutty period. And no worries, it's better now (antibiotics). And I have some great memories!

But it got me wondering......have I simply been "lucky," in never acquiring a recognized STD in my previous 30 years / 500+ contacts / 120+ strangers' loads swallowed?

What are your own real-life experiences with getting chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis?

For guys who are into bathhouses, bookstores or gangbang parties:

- how often do you get tested for the "other" STDs?
- How often does your test show infected?
- Does it discourage your activity? Do you abstain, during or after your treatment period?

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