Hi...I'm having a huge problem with my sex life. Don't get me wrong, i'm really good at getting it on, but I think that I might have got HIV from one of my x-boyfriends. He wasn't aware that he had this disease...but I just found out from another girl in my school who's best friends with this one girl who he did it with, that she has it and thinks she got it from him. I'm really panicing and don't know what to do...I don't want to tell anyone cus then everyone will think im some slut and oh my god specially my mother...if she found out she'd kick me out of the house...and she's nothing compared to my father...but i'm still not sure if I do have it and if I do i'm sure I gave it to other guys...and if I do have it it will get around my school in no time and no one will ever want to go out with me, none the less have sex with me, ever again!! I'm not expecting you to understand but I need someone to talk to and I have no idea what to do, please please help me asap!
Signed, really really scared.
[ Answer this question ] Want to answer more questions in the Sexual Health and Reproduction category? Maybe give some free advice about: General Sex Questions? A.Good.Lie answered Thursday August 26 2004, 6:18 pm: I think I understand. Or, at least I'm trying very hard to. It was just kind of funny to me how you said your whole school would eventually get it. It reminded me of some kind of demented orgy. And I hope to god that you're in college, because it'd just be weird if you're in high school and the whole school is having sex with eachother. It just seems weird to me.
Moving on--There are soooo many loop-holes in your problem, it's not even funny (well, maybe just a little). Now, like I said before, if the whole school sleeps with eachother, then how will people be able to trace the virus back to you? That is, if you even have it. My best advice is to get tested. You might not even have it, you might be stressing yourself out for no reason (not healthy). So get tested first, and if you do in fact have it, then cool it with the sex for a little while. And if that's a bit too much to ask, then just try to use some kind of protection. You don't want it spreding, do you? And about the whore thing, like I said before, people really won't be able to trace it back to you unless you were their first or they communicated.
But it's not your fault. You didn't know. So just calm down, and get tested. I hope everything is fine. [ A.Good.Lie's advice column | Ask A.Good.Lie A Question ]
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