[rozwado1]

I just got a call from my gym owner telling me that they have gotten 3 cases of HPV reported by members in the last month. These members are married and couldn't have gotten it from their spouses, so it is probably from the gym.

I'm freaking out over here bc I couldn't get a doctor's appointment til the morning. I don't have anything visual, but the incubation period is long. I know HPV isn't the end of the world, but I've been very careful sexually because of STDs - and now I may get burned by this BS. issedoff:

p.s. - part of the contract is that you can't sue over things like this.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by rozwado1:
issedoff:

Hehe, funny !

-t

[simonjames]

Would you like to explain what HPV is?

[turtle777]

Originally posted by simonjames:
Would you like to explain what HPV is?

Google is your friend, too:

http://www.ashastd.org/stdfaqs/hpv.html

-t

[Toutgood]

aka genital warts. bad news for ladies.

as if i needed another reason to work out on my own....

[Xeo]

How do you get it from the gym?

[sideus]

You all rubbing your sacks on the locker room benches?

[turtle777]

Originally posted by sideus:
You all rubbing your sacks on the locker room benches?

What if this is your favorite work-out routine ? ;:

-t

[DeathToWindows]

Originally posted by turtle777:
What if this is your favorite work-out routine ? ;:

-t

barfing smiliey please

[Peter]

Originally posted by sideus:
You all rubbing your sacks on the locker room benches?

hahaha

[AKcrab]

Originally posted by Xeo:
How do you get it from the gym?

Yeah, it sounds fishy:

Transmission of genital human papillomavirus infections is unlikely through the floor and seats of humid dwellings in countries of high-level hygiene.

Puranen M, Syrjanen K, Syrjanen S Department of Pathology, University of Kuopio, Finland.

"To evaluate the transmission of genital human papillomavirus (HPV) through the floor and seats of humid dwellings, samples were collected with a toothbrush from the floor and seat surfaces of humid dwellings; showers, saunas and dressing rooms. The survey included 3 bathing resorts, 1 indoor swimming pool, 2 schools and 2 private homes. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to amplify the human beta-globin gene and HPV DNA. The results for HPV DNA amplification were confirmed by Southern blot hybridization under low stringency using a probe mixture of HPV types 6, 16, 18 and 31. beta-globin could be amplified only from 3 sample taken from a dressing room of and indoor public swimming pool. No HPV DNA-positive samples were found. These results indicate that transmission of genital HPV infection via floor or seat surfaces in the above dwellings in general or family use is highly unlikely."

http://www.health-science-report.com...amp;article=51

[FulcrumPilot]

Live each day as though you are going to die tomorrow.

[rozwado1]

Originally posted by Xeo:
How do you get it from the gym?

I don't know. I don't rub my sack on anything. It's just a warning and he said we should get tested, I don't have any symptoms and I hope to god this just blows over.

[FulcrumPilot]

Originally posted by rozwado1:
I don't know. I don't rub my sack on anything.

Funny imagery!!

[wolfen]

Chances are there's an infected whore (man or woman) and they're playing the field at the gym. I'm betting you've got nothing to worry about -- unless you're fondling people from the gym.

[effgee]

Originally posted by rozwado1:
I don't know. I don't rub my sack on anything ... and I hope ... this just blows over.

must ... get ... mental ... image ... out ... of ... head.

AAAaaaaaahhhh!

[The Godfather]

Roz,

How ironic that your previous sig poked fun at the STD :/

How many times did you score at the gym?

[nredman]

"did you see that guys balls? yeah they were gross looking." - Billy Madison

but seriously i hope all is well with your junk man

[Zimphire]

A bunch of people went to the beach after graduation the year I graduated.

I don't know HOW many guys I knew that ended up with curable STDs when they got home.

Nasty stuff man.

[MacNStein]

Seriously, don't sit your bare ass down on the benches in the sauna. I've seen people do this, letting their package simmer on the skank covered boards, and it's just nasty.

[ender2002]

incubation is required. so a sauna or a hot tub is a nice place to catch them. STDs. them.

[IceEnclosure]

i almost fell out of my chair in laughter.

good thing i didn't too, cause just the other day i had this winner laid out on the floor in the exact same spot, and she's questionable.

[mac-kerouac]

"p.s. - part of the contract is that you can't sue over things like this."


Conracts are meaningless, all you need is an attorney who is willing.

[rozwado1]

Originally posted by The Godfather:
Roz,

How ironic that your previous sig poked fun at the STD :/

How many times did you score at the gym?

Pretty goddamn ironic. I don't score at the gym - not into bar skanks either. Having thought about it, there really is very little chance because by frank and beans haven't left my shorts in that gym at all. I made the original post right when I got the call, so there was reason to panic.

[phoenixboy70]

Originally posted by rozwado1:
These members are married and couldn't have gotten it from their spouses, so it is probably from the gym...

...or the babysitter.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by ender2002:
incubation is required. so a sauna or a hot tub is a nice place to catch them. STDs. them.

Not according to the article above.

Depending on the quality of marriage, I'd say they have good reason to claim that it *must be* from the gym. Everything else is impossible, right?

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by rozwado1:
I just got a call from my gym owner telling me that they have gotten 3 cases of HPV reported by members in the last month.

I wonder why they're telling the gym management? I'm sure their doctors didn't tell them to.

These members are married and couldn't have gotten it from their spouses

Heheh... That assumes those members (no pun intended) don't get around, and it assumes their spouses don't get around either. Another possibility if they have been truly monogamous is that they haven't noticed it until now (and had contracted it before marriage).

And finally, a couple could just be misdiagnoses, since HPV on PAP smears is sometimes falsely positive.

so it is probably from the gym.

Could be, but probably because for some people going to the gym is like going to the bar.

Originally posted by ender2002:
so a sauna or a hot tub is a nice place to catch them. STDs. them.

No it isn't.

Originally posted by rozwado1:
It's just a warning and he said we should get tested

I think he (whoever he is) should have read up on the subject before calling up everyone... unless he's just calling everyone he was errr... very friendly with.

BTW, 3 people with HPV at a gym is hardly surprising. You'd be surprised at how many people have HPV.

[Alezone]

^^^ NICE

STD RULES!!!

[wdlove]

I wish you all the best rozwado1. Without intimate sexual contact not sure that you would contact HPV, which is the common way. It's just back to that hand contact again. Not something that you would get form the benches or toilet seats.

Hand washing is very important. I pray that you will be clean of the disease.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by sideus:
You all rubbing your sacks on the locker room benches?

It must be the oversized racoons...

[turtle777]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
It must be the oversized racoons...

-t

[waxcrash]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
It must be the oversized racoons...

We have a winner!!!!!!

[nforcer]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
It must be the oversized racoons...

GG

+5 Funny (60% Funny, 40% Random)

[Eriamjh]

Best thread Ever. I mean... this week.

[Yose]

Originally posted by rozwado1:

p.s. - part of the contract is that you can't sue over things like this.

That part about you waiving their liability if anything happens to you? That part of the contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on and never (but never say never) holds up in court.

Edit: Ops - seems someone else mentioned this. Ohwell.

[mike one]

70% of sexually active people have HPV at some point and most don't even know it.
gential warts is a symtom of only a few of the some 30-odd strains of HPV. most people kick the virus within one year of catching it. it really sux if you are a woman and get it since it is one of the MAJOR contributors to cervical cancer.

[TheBadgerHunter]

Originally posted by mike one:
70% of sexually active people have HPV at some point and most don't even know it.
gential warts is a symtom of only a few of the some 30-odd strains of HPV. most people kick the virus within one year of catching it. it really sux if you are a woman and get it since it is one of the MAJOR contributors to cervical cancer.

[Peter]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:

[Dale Sorel]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
It must be the oversized racoons...

ROTFLMFAO

[Cohiba]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
It must be the oversized racoons...

Interesting thing about this picture. This is not a raccoon, but a tanuki. In Japanese myth, tanukis (a Japanese raccoon, but smaller and without risk of rabies) were often portrayed as tricksters. They were also fabled to have the magical power to transform into anything, including statues (the whole tanuki suit idea in Super Mario Brothers 3). Tanuki statues are rather ubiquitous throughout Japan and have three differences to the actual living tanuki. First is that they are very fat, kind of like Buddha fat. Second, they have a human like posture of standing on two feet. However, the most interesting is that they are always portrayed as having very large testicals.

See http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/tanuk..._no_tanuki.jpg for tanuki picture, the bulge at the bottom is the scrotum.

The reason is that the tamatama (or testicals in English) is so large is that it was believed the part of the body where the want to play tricks on people was stored. In old times, Japanese women always had a very stoic report which believed that tricks were un-lady like, and so it was believed that they lacked the “necessary equipment” to play tricks on other people.

Another interesting fact. Japanese people also believed that the tanuki could use his scrotum as a parachute to slow his fall and even fly. Again, I guess that has a connection on how the tanuki suited Mario could fly in SMB3, but I guess they had to change flying ability to be centered in the tail to keep the game suitable for children.

[The Godfather]

Ugh. I don't want to picture Luigi and Mario as tanukis

[Link]

George: "And I'm good at banging. My peg's hard isn't it Zippy?"

Zippy: "Well of course it is, Your peg wouldn't go in if it was soft."...........



Jane: "Ooooh yes, and I was banging away all last night with Rod and Roger."

Roger (looking sad): "Yes, but it broke my plucking instrument."

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by Cohiba:
Interesting thing about this picture. This is not a raccoon, but a tanuki. In Japanese myth, tanukis (a Japanese raccoon, but smaller and without risk of rabies) were often portrayed as tricksters. They were also fabled to have the magical power to transform into anything, including statues (the whole tanuki suit idea in Super Mario Brothers 3). Tanuki statues are rather ubiquitous throughout Japan and have three differences to the actual living tanuki. First is that they are very fat, kind of like Buddha fat. Second, they have a human like posture of standing on two feet. However, the most interesting is that they are always portrayed as having very large testicals.

See http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/tanuk..._no_tanuki.jpg for tanuki picture, the bulge at the bottom is the scrotum.

The reason is that the tamatama (or testicals in English) is so large is that it was believed the part of the body where the want to play tricks on people was stored. In old times, Japanese women always had a very stoic report which believed that tricks were un-lady like, and so it was believed that they lacked the “necessary equipment” to play tricks on other people.

Another interesting fact. Japanese people also believed that the tanuki could use his scrotum as a parachute to slow his fall and even fly. Again, I guess that has a connection on how the tanuki suited Mario could fly in SMB3, but I guess they had to change flying ability to be centered in the tail to keep the game suitable for children.

Thanks for the story. I did not know that.

Shows why a lot of women don't have sense of humors.