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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.