Deny, deny, deny
I called the guy at the second agency again tonight, and made sure that the message had gotten through.
He claimed that the girl got checked out on Monday, and that she had ``absolutely nothing``. Also this guy just kept insisting that it is impossible to get G from oral sex, which contradicts pretty much everything I`ve been able to find in sources ranging from Wikipedia to the CDC. Claims he works with a doctor who specializes in STI`s and this guy tells him that G can only be transmitted by unprotected vaginal sex.
I also pointed out that many women are asymptomatic carriers, and it`s not clear that anyone can give the all clear until swab and blood cultures come back, which might take a day if you have direct access to a testing lab (I haven`t heard my own results after more than a week).
I was sitting in front of my computer during the call, and read the passages on Wikipedia (same as other more reliable sources) about asymptomatic carriers and transmission by oral sex to him over the phone, but he just wouldn`t budge. ``Been doing this for X years and no client ever caught anything, etc.`` Kept suggesting I should Google about Gonorrhea and I`ll see it can`t be spread by oral sex.
I tried to make it clear that, even if I didn`t get it from her, I did CIM and she should really be given proper prophylactic treatment and diagnostic tests, but he just basically blew me off.
So maybe, just maybe he had her examined by their doc first thing Monday morning and he took blood and tissue cultures and was able to pull strings to get the results the next day. And maybe these tests showed she was clean (although at l`Actuel they made it very clear that some tests are pointless unless administered more than three weeks after the contact).
Anyhow you can make what you want of this info. If the guy had sounded less dismissive, without insisting that G can`t be transmitted by oral sex, and told me that he had her tested and was a little more convincing about how they can have such a definitive result so fast, maybe I would believe it. However this is where I`m having to take this with a whole boatload of salt.
Is anyone else familiar with this notion that G can`t be transmitted by oral sex? I can tell you I`ve done a lot of reading over the last week and the only person who told me this was this agency dude. I can assure you - I did two girls, and covered FS. Now I have what can pretty confidently be pronounced as G, although as I`ve said I`m still waiting for the cultures (it`s easy to see when you have it, much harder to know you don`t have it).
It was never my intent to pursue this until it got nasty, so I`m not going to push any further where the agency is concerned. However this is certainly a wake-up call for me...
Also let me reiterate that the agency of the first girl I saw seems to be taking it more seriously (I don`t know exactly what they have done or will do, just that they expressed a lot more interest and concern).
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