[iknowstuff]

Nobody’s giving or getting head with a condom. People who stay on top of preventative measures tend to not bother with condoms since PrEP became prevalent, because the rest of them you can get with or without a condom due to oral.

Preventative:

1. Gardasil 9 (vaccine against 9 strains of HPV, prevents genital warts and cancers caused by HPV)

2. Monkeypox vaccine

3. Meningitis ACYW vax

4. Meningitis B vax (35% effective against gonorrhea)

5. doxyPEP (two pills of doxycycline taken after sex, 90% effective against syphilis, 80% chlamydia, 50% gonorrhea)

6. PrEP (prevents HIV infections)

7. and the usual suite of vaccines against the rest like hepatitis A/B, mumps etc

You’ll notice all of these give you far more protection than a condom would. Again, especially since oral is a thing.

Treatment of the bacterial ones (which transmit through oral too):

1. syphilis - butt shot of penicillin

2. chlamydia - 1/2 pills of an antibiotic

3. gonorrhea - a week of doxycycline pills or one butt shot of ceftriaxone

Remaining unpreventable/untreatable one is HSV. Half of the population has it. Condoms dont prevent it either.

Hepatitis requires blood contact and as such is not necessarily considered an STI, but hepatitis c is curable these days thanks to DAAs taken over the course of 8-12 weeks, and a/b variants have vaccines.

[scotty79]

Great list. Although suddenly sex when single seems like even more of a bother than before.

[theideaofcoffee]

Thank you for adding this here, I was working on compiling something similar for another comment on the thread. This is pretty much the gold standard and yeah those that keep up on preventatives and testing are usually the least likely to pass anything along. More information is better, not less! These puritanical views on human sexuality, like the comment above yours to which you're responding and others, only cause more hurt and don't really have any sort of deterrent effect. Peeps be fuckin', nothing you can do to stop it besides get the best info and treatments out there.

[felixg3]

Hi, I wanted to clarify here that I don’t have „puritanical views“ on human sexuality, but I am aware of my bias and wanted people to give me further information. I could already „smell“ that I was wrong with my perception, hence the comment. I didn’t want to cause any hurt with my questions, please assume naïveté and not malice.

[iwontberude]

HSV is inevitable if you hookup, but its also not that bad.