STD Would you Tell?

This is just a hypothetical question-Please no one get offended i am just asking. But if you had an STD would you tell your sexual partner even if you don't know where it came from? Ex: Herpes, HPV...things along those lines. Since sometimes those STD's can be asymptomatic and you don't know where it was contracted from.

If i had one yes i would tell, if someone didn't tell me that i would flip out. Your partner/lover whichever deserves to know that.

Yes, I would.

Definately, it would eat me up inside not to. I get guilty about thinking bad things about people or by not being responsible to others. Sometimes I think it's a public image thing like I don't want to be seen as the so and so who did this or that to somebody.

that is not something you should keep to yourself. you affect others' lives by not telling them and act as if things are OK.

I wouldn't broadcast it, but definately it I was planing on gettin intimate with someone.

Evilllllllllllllllllllllll I love it! lol

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Great, now I'm gonna be paranoid... will never have sex everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr again!

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Yes I'd definitely tell. If you do, it's your responsability to let them know they're at risk and decide for themselves.

i had a friend who told me he had sex with another friend of mine (who he didn't know was my friend) and didn't tell her he had HPV. we were making macaroni at the time, and i literally shanked him in the gut with a fork.

shanked him in the gut? you mean you stabbed him—??

and *screaming* HELL!!! YES!!!!!! i would say something.

i WOULD NOT want to perpetuate an illness that I probably contracted because someone else didnt say something about it to me... vengeance or not. not with the possibility that the guy i might have given it to could run off and give it to countless other girls. i had a friend who got an std from some guy who claims he didn't know he had it. she was crushed. CRUSHED! the things an std (the uncurable ones esp.) can do to someone's psyche is horrible. that person will have to live the rest of their life asking themself this question with each new person that comes into their life. high hopes could be continually stomped on when she has to tell someone she might totally be into that she has an std and then has to watch them walk away because of it. ...it's sad thoughts like this that i wouldn't want to spread around, not just an std that could potentially kill you, kill your baby, cause cancer, our put you out of business a few days out of every month with excruciating pain, etc. std's are no f*cking joke. i would definitely say something.

I think anyone who wouldn't tell their partner would have to be seriously screwed up mentally. At worst, an evil person.

or... even better... "they said they'd just been tested"

folks... many stds take more then just a moment to test positively for.
HIV takes around 6 months
HSV (herpes simplex virus) around a month to show on a blood test.
HPV cannot even be tested for.

the name is in fact creepy, but nothing to be creeped out about. :p

and anytime.

it's something everyone needs to know.

CreepyPants you were misinformed HPV can be tested through blood. That one is a little tricky because people have that all the time and never know about it. Some of the women never know until they have abnormal cells or it becomes cervical cancer. HPV starts as an STD so anyone that didn't know that. Now you know...

Even scarier people think AIDS Or HIV is the only thing out there that you need to be tested for.

Very misinformed people i would say.

i've never heard of a blood test for hpv. ive heard doctors say specifically otherwise, so if what you're saying is true, then either they are also misinformed, they were lying, or this test is new. it would make sense that there might be one. it is after all a virus that the body would make antibodies to fight. thats my thinking at least, but im no doctor. the virus itself lives in the skin and mucous membranes.

now... i've read about a blood serum test that is unreliable. theres a test approved ONLY for women who have had irregular pap smears that examines DNA for cancerous strains. I'm curious to know your source Karima. If its easily accessible, mind passing it my way?