"Try before you deny!" -Eleanor Roosevelt

..but it's also 100% acceptable to go "actually maybe I'm not into this"

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True love 🙏

I hope so too 😭 I miss being a horny doggy. I keep seeing all this amazing porn on my feed and it feels like I'm adrift in a vast ocean without a paddle. I need my paddles 🥺

Actual pain 🫠🫠🫠 I've been putting cold peas between my legs for relief. Call it crotch pot cooking.

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For those waiting on hot dog dad content please know that the spirit is willing, but my temp is so high my balls are *aching* from hanging so low to escape the fever.

Finally on antibiotics, hoping to be back in stud dog shape for MFF.

Love y'all 🫠 I'm gonna crawl back under the heated blanket.

If that's all you got out of my thread then I'm afraid you've missed the point.

It is perfectly reasonable of me to not want to confront someone that gave me such trauma. My diagnosis doesn't own me, and neither do you.

Tl;dr I said, "No," and that is enough.

I'm not protecting anyone but myself. It is not my responsibility to run a campaign against them. It's my life and my story, not theirs. It's perfectly reasonable of me to not want to relive trauma by avoiding naming them. THEY used ME. It's not my fault. Leave me alone.

Speaking on a larger scale-- Nobody gets out of this world alive. Live the life you truly want to. Even if that means doing it scared, broke, alone, or a combination of the three. The real fear isn't failure. It's lying on your deathbed. Surrounded by the ghosts of chances you never took.

That's not responsibility. I can only hold myself accountable.

You take risks everyday just by simply stepping outside.

I am not ignorant to the risks. I take every step possible to mitigate them. From wearing a seatbelt when I drive, to looking both ways before crossing a street.

You have a choice to own your life, or let fear own it. I choose the former.

Stigma thrives in darkness and silence. Shine light on the topic and talk about it. Herpes doesn't own my life, and it shouldn't own yours either.