And as for bareback itself
[QUOTE=Grimmy23;5754715]You can get some pretty nasty stuff from places that don't change their sheets, but STDs aren't on the list. Skin infections, respiratory infections, scabies, ringworm, etc. In theory its possible to have a problem if one of the guys before you had crabs, but Ive never heard of it happening. Unfortunately a lot of of AMPs don't change their sheets, so I make a habit of only going to places that do. Besides, just the thought of laying in 10 other guys' jazz stains is disgusting. Ive been to plenty of places in the past that dont change sheets and never caught anything, and Ive never heard of a monger catching anything from used sheets, but there is an inherent risk there on top of just the gross factor.
Worst thing Ive ever heard of happening from a monger is getting chlamydia from bb oral. I know a few guys that happened to in Asia. Fortunately its curable.[/QUOTE]The chances of getting an STD from any one incident of bareback sex is about 0. 04%. Pretty low risk. Of course if you're doing it frequently the risk increases. Have bareback sex 100 x a year and you have a little higher chance of catching something, but the numbers are still pretty small.
I use the lotto ticket example. Say you buy a lotto ticket and your chances are 1 in 100 million. If you play the lotto next week, what are your chances? Theyre still 1 in 100 million. Your odds dont double because you played two weeks in a row. Theyre completely isolated events. If you buy a lotto tickets every week your odds arent 52 out of 100 million, you get 52 individual 1 in 100 million chances to win. Of course your odds are much higher than if you only bought one tickets a year or didnt play at all. If you dont play your chances of winning are zero. If you do play your chances of winning are practically zero, but theres always a chance.
If you do bareback a few times a year and catch something you're a pretty unlucky SOB. So I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. I personally choose to not take the risk, outside of a very rare BBBJ when I can get one. But if you do indulge in bb intercourse once in a while its probably not gonna kill you.