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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 21:38 |
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In our times we are used to hearing horror stories in relation to sex. It seems to drive us to make decisions and take risks which normally we might not have. It allows us to excuse behavior, overcome obstacles and even ignore common sense.
An email I received this morning highlights the perils. Dawn met John in a bar two weeks ago. They were both a little drunk and they clicked. “I do not normally go for one night stands but he was extremely good looking and I felt really lonely.”
From that beginning things only got a little more intense. “We had sex several times that night. John was great fun to be with. We drunk and he had these uppers he produced. They made me feel very light-headed. We both took some and then had more sex.”
In the morning Dawn woke up and left and she decided that good as it had been her experience with John would end about there. “I really had no wish to see him again and I was a little horrified at myself for mixing alcohol and drugs like that. It was my loneliness more than anything else which had driven me to this action and I was determined to put it behind me once and for all.”
Dawn thought nothing of this until she went to give blood in one of the blood donation drives organised by her work. “I give blood fairly regularly and this was fairly routine for me.”
Imagine her consternation when she received a letter in the post a few days later asking her to go and visit her GP. There Dawn found out that she was suffering from the early onset of the AIDS virus. “not once did I think about the unprotected sex we had. I have always known that to get AIDS like that is really difficult and I did not really think that I would be in danger of it.
Dawn’s predicament has left her feeling devastated and understandably uncertain about the future. Her experience is a cautionary tale which we should all heed.
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