{"id":817,"date":"2009-07-24T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=817"},"modified":"2009-07-24T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T01:25:00","slug":"and-again-two-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"And again, two years later"},"content":{"rendered":"

See also this post from two years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I did an update today; got a full sweep of tests. HIV and visual exam (genital warts and crabs) were all fine. I was examined by a slender little female doc who cheerfully said, “You’re clean as a whistle!” The rest of the test results arrive Thursday, but I have no real reason to sweat it. Mostly I do it because “it’s the right thing to do.” Peace of mind, for me and for my partners.<\/p>\n

One real amusing moment came when the doc was reviewing my sexual history. “Hmm, two on-going partners over the past two years? How do you make that work? You must…”, and her voice trailed off. I would love to know how she was gonna finish the sentence! I said something a little embarrassed about, “I’m not sure how it works, but so far it has worked really, really well.” She came back with a ready grin and said, “Well I think it’s just great! Good for you!”<\/p>\n

She also asked about a casual partner I had over a year ago. She queried, “Oral-genital sex?” “Umm, neither. I believe the popular euphemism would be “heavy petting.”” Again, she burst out in peals of laughter.<\/p>\n

I’m a laugh riot, I tell ya.<\/p>\n

If you’re in the Portland area and would like to get tested, I cannot recommend highly enough the Westover Heights Clinic<\/a>. And if this is being read by the person who referred me to them (he says carefully, without outing anyone), thanks very much! I owe you a glass of wine. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See also this post from two years ago. I did an update today; got a full sweep of tests. HIV and visual exam (genital warts and crabs) were all fine…. Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,43,47,52],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-girls","tag-pdx","tag-relationships","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}