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Speaker 3: Hey, many minute was free. I'm from Kelly, but I'm
Speaker 3: gonna keep it short. So I've been sucking with this
Speaker 3: guy for like six months. Sometimes he's like he's just
Speaker 3: hot and cold with me some day sometimes. But one
Speaker 3: day he showed me his medicine captain. I was like, oh, okay, interesting.
Speaker 3: And then like a few weeks later, I was cooking
Speaker 3: at his house and he had left a minute, but
Speaker 3: the medicine cabinet was open, so let me see if
Speaker 3: he's by if he's taken by polar medication because he
Speaker 3: needs so weird. Anyway, I look in the cabinet and
Speaker 3: I see doctors feeling in prep and my heart like
Speaker 3: literally stank to my stomach. But I had to get
Speaker 3: myself together and I was like, maybe he's just like
Speaker 3: extra careful whatever, because you know, we just like we
Speaker 3: just like it. But anyway, he had five like side
Speaker 3: bottles of each of them. But anyway, the next day
Speaker 3: I asked him about it, and he was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I don't take prep. I've just been I just got it.
Speaker 3: So I was able to so I could get the
Speaker 3: doctor's filings. I was like, so you acted gay so
Speaker 3: you can get doctor's feeling. He was like, it's just
Speaker 3: you take it like I think he's at thirty six
Speaker 3: hours after after you have sex and you think you've
Speaker 3: been exposed to somebody solf. He was like, I don't
Speaker 3: take prep. I just I just give it to my
Speaker 3: friends when they need it. And I'm just like, I
Speaker 3: don't know, I don't know what to think about it.
Speaker 3: I tried, I'm believing him at the moment, but it's
Speaker 3: still liked damn, like you're really a freakyus maybe in
Speaker 3: prep and this amount. But I also was like, maybe
Speaker 3: he's stelling it. I don't know. He lives in LA
Speaker 3: and I just want to know what you would think
Speaker 3: if you saw that, And yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay, first of all, not you thinking this nigga might
Speaker 2: be bipolar because he hot and cold with your ass girl.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's just not that into you first off, and
Speaker 2: clearly the that already because now you think he gay,
Speaker 2: but you think the bipolar off off him being up
Speaker 2: and down.
Speaker 1: With his moods with you or hot and cold. Is coursy.
Speaker 2: I love too that we just love were in the
Speaker 2: space of mental health where we just are diagnosing, because
Speaker 2: let's be very clear, my friends, no.
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 1: Na well for the audience.
Speaker 2: Doxy cyclin I don't even know if that's not saying
Speaker 2: is it even doctor? Doxy silent cyclin cycling circline doxy
Speaker 2: broad spectrum tetral. Another guy there work symbiotic commonly prescribed
Speaker 2: to treat various bacterial infections and certain parasitic infections. So
Speaker 2: bacteria infections include anything from and here this is what's important.
Speaker 2: Anything that causes respiratory infections, so like pneumonia and bronchitis,
Speaker 2: skin infections like acne or cellulitis UTIs, and then sexually
Speaker 2: transmitted diseases like chlamydia and syphilis, also tick born illnesses
Speaker 2: like lime disease. But it's also a common treatment for
Speaker 2: acnea roisation.
Speaker 1: I say all of that to say.
Speaker 2: None of those things are probably it because prep was
Speaker 2: right next to it, but that particular one could be
Speaker 2: used for anything else. Now, the fact that he said
Speaker 2: he has it and had to get the prep in
Speaker 2: order to be diagnosed with this one, my concerns are
Speaker 2: hold on. My concerns are if he knew or claims
Speaker 2: that this antipibiotic.
Speaker 1: Clears up or saves him from getting.
Speaker 2: Something like a chlemittee or a syphilis within thirty six hours,
Speaker 2: I would be absolutely concerned for my health because that means.
Speaker 4: He's more probably.
Speaker 1: Out here not using protection. I do like the.
Speaker 2: Kind of preventive measure of getting this antibiotic. However, I
Speaker 2: would be concerned with how he is having sex with
Speaker 2: other people. Now, you didn't say that this was your partner.
Speaker 2: You said that this is a guy that you've been
Speaker 2: fucking with for six months. To me, and the fact
Speaker 2: that you're also saying that he's hot and cold, he
Speaker 2: probably hot and cold dealing with other people.
Speaker 4: Oh, not that what you was saying.
Speaker 1: He could be more hot with others, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: The only way I think you should consider maintaining this
Speaker 2: situationship if you like him, would be to.
Speaker 1: Ask for test results, because I.
Speaker 2: Would say, you're clearly in a position where you're fucking him,
Speaker 2: but you're not together. You're not in a relationship with him,
Speaker 2: so it's not exclusive. And if you see that this
Speaker 2: is the medication in his cabinet, I don't think there's
Speaker 2: any reason to shame him or call him a hoe
Speaker 2: or but he could be engaging in more risky sex,
Speaker 2: which makes me believe it should be easy. If it
Speaker 2: was this easy for him to talk about why this
Speaker 2: medication is in his medicine cabinet, this would actually be
Speaker 2: probably a really good candidate for someone to be like, Hey,
Speaker 2: that's dope.
Speaker 1: I see like you got.
Speaker 2: Preventive measures in your medicine cabinet. Do you mind if
Speaker 2: we share results? And because he has the medication, I
Speaker 2: would say on a monthly.
Speaker 5: Basis, if you think after six I mean, I'm not
Speaker 5: saying that he can't nor should she ask, right, I
Speaker 5: mean his initial reaction from after six months to be
Speaker 5: asked results it's to be I.
Speaker 2: Mean, I'm not gonna lie the way he whether he
Speaker 2: was lying or not, his reaction was, hey, I only
Speaker 2: have the PREP, which PREP is still associated to gay men,
Speaker 2: a gay man drug to keep them from getting HIV.
Speaker 1: We've talked about PREP.
Speaker 2: If you haven't yet, we have a whole episode two
Speaker 2: speaking about it with Sex with Athlete over on Patreon.
Speaker 2: But PREP by a man, I would automatically assume you're
Speaker 2: also dealing with men, let's be very clear. And then
Speaker 2: the other one for him to so nonchalantly say it's
Speaker 2: something I could take if in case I'm exposed.
Speaker 5: To maybe he's not comfortable enough. Sure, David, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: say this real quick. It doesn't matter that they've been
Speaker 5: fucking for six months. He still might not be comfortable.
Speaker 5: She'll let her know that he is intimate and it
Speaker 5: is what it is. We as men could be very
Speaker 5: insecure by our own sexuality.
Speaker 4: Absolutely right. That's why I don't care about what the
Speaker 4: fuck I say. Sometimes I'm like, dude, I know who
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 5: The truth, or at least safety comes with a heart
Speaker 5: troop something it does, because that the reality is that
Speaker 5: if you want to know it, and I think you're
Speaker 5: being frank in one of the best way possibles, which
Speaker 5: is ask for those results, because the reality is is
Speaker 5: that you're saving yourself and even him, because it could
Speaker 5: really be either way at one point, right, someone could
Speaker 5: be doing something wrong. But here it's there's a misunderstanding
Speaker 5: and there's something that seems a little off to you,
Speaker 5: and you shouldn't take a risk with your body if
Speaker 5: you're feeling it's not worth it.
Speaker 4: Mad other dick right, mad mad other dick mad mad bad?
Speaker 4: But clearly you like this one.
Speaker 2: I mean yes and no, I mean the hot and
Speaker 2: cold him being that way. Here's the thing too, ask yourself,
Speaker 2: would you not want to deal with him at all?
Speaker 2: If he admits to dealing with men.
Speaker 4: He also might not be bob polar, He might be no, no, no,
Speaker 4: I just yeah, he does.
Speaker 2: Mean, yeah, he just may not know how to juggle
Speaker 2: multiple people, so his communication and moods, would you just.
Speaker 1: Multiple people?
Speaker 2: He may just not know how to navigate being on
Speaker 2: all the time, juggling to so many different people. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think you have to ask yourself first off. Okay,
Speaker 2: he's expressed to me already that he has this antibiotic
Speaker 2: in case of exposure, which means clearly you're not exclusive
Speaker 2: with each other, which means you both are dealing with
Speaker 2: people just possibly unprotected. That's just the truth, the fact
Speaker 2: of the matter. You have to deal with yourself or
Speaker 2: look in the mirror and ask yourself.
Speaker 1: Would it bother me.
Speaker 2: Truly psychologically to know that this guy that I've been
Speaker 2: dealing with for the last six months also engages in.
Speaker 4: Acts with men or acts in general? Do you think both?
Speaker 4: I mean, do you think she knows that if he's
Speaker 4: fucking other women?
Speaker 2: Maybe the only reason why the fact that she said
Speaker 2: she was cooking at his house makes me think, I
Speaker 2: mean that it might be a little bit more than casual, okay,
Speaker 2: because you cooking a meal for someone. Okay, And this
Speaker 2: could just be me projected, y'all know, me for someone
Speaker 2: is very intimate. You're also cooking it at his house.
Speaker 2: So I do think that there's a comfortability factor there
Speaker 2: where she may be progressing to really like this man.
Speaker 2: And I think that if that's the case, you have
Speaker 2: to look at what the hell is that potential looks like?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like is this something that you would be okay with?
Speaker 2: Like, he ain't got bipolar medicine, but she got prepped
Speaker 2: and then now you're thinking she no, Let's be very clear.
Speaker 2: Can we talk about the delusion she went down the
Speaker 2: rabbit hole of believing that, well, maybe he's just selling it.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's slanging that prep in these streets. Girl, you
Speaker 2: gotta take prep every day.
Speaker 1: Girl, you just ain't.
Speaker 2: Selling appeal to these motherfuckers. They're not get high off prep.
Speaker 2: So I need you to not think that he out
Speaker 2: here slanging prep pills.
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Like, so I think you have to be real with
Speaker 2: does this really bother you because you believe he may
Speaker 2: be dealing with other men? Have you created a safe
Speaker 2: space for him to be honest with you? Like, did
Speaker 2: you immediately did you immediately see.
Speaker 1: That prep and be like, oh, nigga, Like on some
Speaker 1: bulldog's voice type ship or are you someone that could
Speaker 1: just be like, hey, we can dig together.
Speaker 4: Just because he's doesn't mean doesn't.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, what level of comfortability have you created?
Speaker 3: To me?
Speaker 1: There's a level that he's showing you his medicine cabinet.
Speaker 4: But did he you know what? I think she's maybe she.
Speaker 2: All looked well, no, no, she said she snooped while
Speaker 2: he was gone. But he's one day he showed me
Speaker 2: his medicine cabinet, and I was like, okay.
Speaker 1: Interesting.
Speaker 4: First of all, it was probably like OpEd he opened
Speaker 4: this ship. And then she's like, oh the cabinet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know this, mirac I got this.
Speaker 4: And then like then it was fine, okay, balance, you
Speaker 4: might be onto something.
Speaker 1: He just went in there to grant, he went the
Speaker 1: medicine bottles.
Speaker 4: He got away like she ain't. But I respect it,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: It's tough.
Speaker 5: I think regardless, And I was just having this conversation
Speaker 5: with front of mine and just in general, yes, be selfish,
Speaker 5: take care of yourself. Notice, at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: no matter what he's taking, even if brace it could
Speaker 5: be a preventative measure. As for the results and protect
Speaker 5: yourself because really, at the end of the day, you
Speaker 5: don't want to get called out in any sense at all,
Speaker 5: and any sense and it's not Maybe it's not out
Speaker 5: of malice. Maybe he's doing his best to try to
Speaker 5: protect them, regardless if he's with men or not. Even though,
Speaker 5: like you said, right, the reality is that something happens
Speaker 5: to you, you're going to have to deal with it.
Speaker 5: It don't matter what's in his medicine cabinet, is about
Speaker 5: what's going to be in your medicine cabinet. If you
Speaker 5: don't deal with that, you don't handlate very responsibly. It's
Speaker 5: not about you being in the upper hand. It's not
Speaker 5: about him doing some wax shit. It's about you figuring
Speaker 5: out and making sure that you're okay at the end
Speaker 5: of the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, I agree. I also think it's just
Speaker 2: like I love what you just said about being selfish.
Speaker 2: I think as women, we often bite.
Speaker 4: Our ya y'all take care of us so much, but
Speaker 4: also or not.
Speaker 2: The and the risk of ourselves being in danger sometimes.
Speaker 2: I mean, oh, women are very delusional. But I think
Speaker 2: when it comes to sex and talking about our health
Speaker 2: that becomes difficult because we weren't taught how to do that,
Speaker 2: our dumb asses millennials, and I don't know what gen
Speaker 2: Z sex education looks like now, but we literally were
Speaker 2: just taught abstinate or else you're gonna get pregnant and die.
Speaker 2: So I think that there wasn't enough conversation about how
Speaker 2: to realistically, without shame and without judgment, have a very
Speaker 2: real conversation about health. Like, yes, if you are going
Speaker 2: down on a man and you see something that don't
Speaker 2: look right, bring your head back up.
Speaker 1: And be like, hey, what is this? I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: not like that, but okay, but just maybe hey, you
Speaker 1: don't want anything, so maybe just be like.
Speaker 2: This isn't the right time, this isn't the right moment,
Speaker 2: and have the conversation later, ask for results, ask for
Speaker 2: test results, to feel comfortable with these people.
Speaker 1: And again, medication.
Speaker 4: Is there to help, But do you want to have
Speaker 4: to be Do you want to have to.
Speaker 1: Take medication for the rest of your life? With something else?
Speaker 5: Stop thinking about his, thinking about what might have to
Speaker 5: be in yours if you don't take the right procedure,
Speaker 5: because as a day, even though he might still be safe,
Speaker 5: it could be a premitive measure. You can find yourself
Speaker 5: in a really tough spot, unfortunately, unfortunately, and you don't
Speaker 5: want to do that.
Speaker 1: You do not want to do that, I'm telling you now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So look out of his situation and really be selfish,
Speaker 2: like Eddin said, and only.
Speaker 1: Care about you, whether you like him or not. Gerder's
Speaker 1: mode dicks in the sea, there's mouchies in the seed.
Speaker 1: There's more.
Speaker 2: There are more options for you out here than to
Speaker 2: be with someone who a may not be forthright about
Speaker 2: his health or whatever else he's doing.
Speaker 4: When you're not around that hot and cold shit is
Speaker 4: definitely a big red flag. No, I agree, a big
Speaker 4: red flag. The biggest red flag.
Speaker 1: Yes to no, you don't date man niggas is hot
Speaker 1: and cold.
Speaker 2: No, Like that's a normal when you're just dating someone,
Speaker 2: or you're or you have a situationship, or you're just
Speaker 2: having sex. Mind you, a lot of women often find
Speaker 2: it difficult to communicate what type of relationship they want
Speaker 2: from a man, so they're willing to just take whatever
Speaker 2: communicating and they want more.
Speaker 5: No I'm talking about them, but I'm talking about that
Speaker 5: he might be just putting his attentions oide of the woman.
Speaker 2: Or I mean, you know what, I mean, it's not happening,
Speaker 2: but that's what I'm saying. It's hot and cold. Could
Speaker 2: literally be also her realizing that she's not getting what
Speaker 2: she wants out of this relationship.
Speaker 1: I said that from the top.
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Speaker 6: interested in you, and it might not be that sucks
Speaker 6: for you. But Andrew, just take the safe route. Accept
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