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• WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Trust isn’t the issue. Probability is. Even without deception, there’s a chance someone can have an STD without knowing it. And there’s a chance that std won’t show up on testing due to incubation times, dormancy phases, and false negatives.

  Imagine there is a 1% chance of your partner having an STD without knowing it. 1% doesn’t sound too bad an odds. But if you have 50 partners in an extended polycule, then the chance that at least one of them unknowingly has one is 1-(.99)^50, or 39%. Probabilities compound.

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• xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i’ve been lied to by people i trusted many times… but i hope your ability to determine trustworthiness is perfect. mine is not.

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