Seperating fact from fiction. All strippers have STD's.

I suggest YOU gather your own facts. After all, it's your health. Unprotected sex is risky. The more partners, the greater the risk. Do you think your stripper friend only has unprotected sex with YOU?

Oh, strippers definitely have spread STDs to customers:

Locally, we've had cases of strippers spreading chlamydia, gonoherea, and herpes. Not surprising since these things are relatively common. They probably spread HPV too, but that almost never gets tested for barring symptoms, so who knows? But, as you say, other women that age (non strippers) spread STDs too.

I am not sure if STDs rates are higher among strippers than the general popultion or not:

On the one hand, they are younger so have had less time to be exposed. But, OTOH, there are probably a higher number of intravenous drug users (IDUs) among them, and, of course, many are having sex for money.

I've certainly seen no study showing STD rates (excluding stuff you get from intravenous drug use) are higher for strippers, and believe me, I've looked!

As far as HIV goes, it is pretty much accepted that in western industrialized countries that if you exclude IDUs, HIV rates are no higher for commercial sex workers (CSWs) than amongst the general population.

Keep trying you stupid old man. You may get what you seem to wish for...

you ask why you would be better/safer off having sex with a trusted lover than a stripper? are you serious? sure, you can get burned by anybody but playing with sex workers ( which is what strippers are ) will put you closer to the fire. Here's what I know. Over the years I have made many female friends(non-stripper) that felt secure enough to tell me private matters. None of them ever confessed an STD to me. I have gotten to know exactly 3 strippers very well, all of them have a verified STD. I don't think the majority of strippers have STD's, its just logical to conclude that there is a higher risk factor is all.

The majority of the population stripper or not has an STD. Most don't know because they are asymptomatic so never get tested, or, if they do, HSV and HPV are usually not tested for, barring symptoms. So it's quite likely that the female friends were just less likely to get tested than the strippers, so had something but just didn't know.

Well, I don't do unprotected penetration with sex workers. A girl tried to do it with me in a VIP room last year and I stopped her. Everyone has to make their own decisions about these things. In my experience, most (certainly not all) sex workers are more careful about safe sex than civilian women are.

its certainly true that a lot of people have stds that are unaware of them...i don't agree that the majority of the population has one. I do believe that strippers have a higher incidence of stds. they are young, like sex, think theyre invulnerable and not too bright. My background is conservative and old-school. My ex-wife demanded I court her first and she also demanded a thorough std test. there is that small segment of the population that acts responsibly and has self-respect for themselves.

I can't speak for the entire population but, I know several strippers who have provided in club FS and would be very concerned if not protected. Not that they are bad people, but there are a lot of diseases that just don't present themselves until its too late. If you want to have unprotected sex with strippers thats your business but I will be protected not because I don't trust the then, I don't trust the other customers!!

68% of the US population has HSV-1 alone. (Check Seroprevalence estimates for HSV-1 and HSV-2 on en.wikipedia.org.) Rates of HSV-2 and HPV are also high. So the majority of the population, stripper or not, has something.

"In the case of oral HSV-1, many of the approximately 100 million Americans who are infected acquired the virus when they were children. By the time they're adults, only some 5% of people are bothered enough to consider oral HSV-1 a medical problem, according to Spruance. "herpes.com

The fact is once you include HSV-1 in the mix (cold sores) - pratically everyone is infected and we might as all go live in glass houses and when outside walk around with michael jackson anti-germ face masks

As for HSV-2, the type most people really worry about, it seems odd the entire escort industry can even exist, because condoms don't stop it - so how does that industry functionif all these married guys out "hobbying" would presumptively be bringing it home?

More "facts" - proving once again its a muddled mess. Certainly most strippers have STDs if one defines STDs this way, and probably most kids

from: healthofchildren.com The prevalence of herpes simplex in the United States is as follows:

Seventy to ninety percent of adults test seropositive(presentin blood serum) for HSV-1.

Up to 30 percent of adults test seropositive for HSV-2. The highest incidence of HSV-1 is in children six months to three years of age. The highest incidence of HSV-2 is in young adults between the age of 18 and 25 years. HSV-2 antibodies are present in approximately 20 percent of Caucasians and about 65 percent of African-American adults.

A primary infection of HSV-1 typically occurs between six months and five years of age and is systemic (affecting the whole body). Transmission is generally via respiratory droplets (HSV-1) or direct contact (HSV-1 and HSV-2).

"it seems odd the entire escort industry can even exist, because condoms don't stop it - so how does that industry functionif all these married guys out "hobbying" would presumptively be bringing it home?"

Several factors:

Transmission rates in the abscene of outbreaks are low; most who have it don't know they have it; and it usually isn't tested for barring a specific request or the presence of symptoms even though it is often asymptomatic.

Female to male transmission is about 5% a year. Then if the male client did catch it there is only a 10% chance they would notice. Then they would have to pass it onto their wife (10% chance a year). Then even if the wife did catch it she would have to notice (only a 10% chance).

I also suspect some people are just plain immune to HSV due to genetics. I've read about and known people who have had unprotected sex with ungodly numbers of people and not even caught so much as HSV-1.