National HIV Testing Day – KNOW YOUR STATUS!

In
my
last article, I stated that “some women spend more time
looking for shoes than they do getting to know their sexual
partner.”  Unfortunately with every waking
day I find this more and more to be true.  When talking to
women, I find that it takes a woman almost 4 times the amount of time
to get ready for a date than it takes for her to have sex with that
same date.  Scary
isn’t it? 

Societally,
we have been taught to put the man’s pleasure and comfort
above our own.  Very few of us have ever learned how to
negotiate our terms in the bedroom.  We haven’t a
clue about how to even begin the conversation let alone insist that a
man use a condom.  Even if we do get up enough nerve to
suggest it, we will back down if we sense even the slightest resistance
in his tone or face. 

Back
in our mother’s day, if a man was sexually unfaithful, it was
just accepted as “a man’s way.” 
Their only concern was pregnancy or him infecting her with a treatable
sexually transmitted disease.  We can’t live like
this anymore, the tide has changed.  What you don’t
know about your partner will kill you.  Isn’t your
life worth more than 10-20 minutes worth of pleasure?

The
only way to prevent and totally eradicate this disease is to know your
status and if you are HIV negative and sexually active, assume everyone
else is positive and ALWAYS USE PROTECTION. 

If
you find that you’re HIV positive, get into treatment
immediately.  Being HIV positive no longer is the death
sentence it once was. Through proper treatment and medication, it will
not turn into AIDS and you will live and not die.