Safe Sex Passport Offers STD Free Dating Options
An American company is attempting to reduce the risks involved with having sex by offering a safe sex "passport", which allows paying members to give anyone a code to check online and confirm their STD status. Although not cheap (membership costs $75 USD for 6 months and testing is around the $200 mark depending on frequency), the Florida-based SSP BioAnalytics Inc., has received an overwhelming response to their safe sex passport, with almost 15,000 people signing up so far.
The concept is simple: purchase a membership, get tested, and then provide anyone you like with the results in a format that you feel comfortable with depending on how much privacy you require (i.e. anywhere from a numeric code to full contact information). The information is kept safely for six months, after which the data becomes inaccessible and the user must get another STD test in order to use the service again.
Would you use a service like this? How would you feel if someone you were dating either asked, or offered, a safe sex passport as proof of their health status?
Comments
I don’t think I will use this service.
With something like this, a person like this can wonder, how far will this go? When will it get to the point where people start asking about their the interests’ genetics, in order to rule out the possibility of their future kids having inferior genes?
In response to K, I think there’s a major difference. I recently dated a girl who tested positive for BRCA1 (predisposing her to breast cancer). Her grandmother, mother and aunt all died of it. It was a non-issue, and had her and I continued in the relationship long-term, I wouldn’t think twice about it in terms of kids, our relationship, etc. (She, however, broke it off.) Sexually transmitted diseases are much different. They can disable or even kill your eventual life partner (i.e., my future wife) and your children. I live in Washington DC, and its constantly a concern with girls I date whether they could have STDs. Another girl I had a long-term relationship with told me after we began having sex for 2 months that she actually had had a boyfriend for 4 years before we started dating, and was still seeing him! And no, not even her friends warned me.