First thing I want to say is that I have funked some skanky biatches. In the future I fully expect to be doing the same. I'm not trying to fool myself on this one here.
knowing that I make sure to carry at least 2 rubbers. One breaks, while I have a back up and. The second one breaks or I pull off a marathon night (I'm getting older) I'll just give up. A busted condom (especially two busted condoms) is a damn fine excuse to not completing. On a side note it is also a great reason to stop buying rubbers at the swap meet. If you hit it once than you should be able to do it again.
I actually tried sitting back the other night and playing connect the dots with my sexual partners to those who I know have done intravenous drugs, hooked up with sluts without a condom, could be bi or bi-curious, have a ridiciculous number of sexual partners (who could have fulfilled one of the above criteria or whose partners could have), been with hookers, the list just kept going on and on. After playing this game for about 10mins I just sat back and thanked god that I wore a condom most of the time. When I didn't it was usually with girls I thought could be trusted (LTR's or "innocent" girls).
So far I have been lucky given my track record. I somehow was not one of the four 18yr olds that had HPV, or the guy taking valtrex from a ONS. My worst problem so far has been a minor bacterial infection of the urethial tract that was curable with a couple of weeks of penicillan.
You can pretend that HIV is a hom0 disease all you want but your sexual history is intertwined with that of more people than you could imagine.
Testing is uncomfortable but to me it seems a lot less uncomfortable than dying before I make it to 40.