late night.

[azurelunatic]

http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2007/04/open-letter-to-markos-moulitsas.html


I was having Deep Thoughts in the shower, but as usual I didn't wind up saving too many of them. One of them was about sex. Aside from the obvious issue of my being actively engaged in courting a monogamous fellow, and therefore not wanting to screw up my chances with him for the sake of some good times with someone I wasn't courting, I ...

... it's horrible, but I have a little checklist in my head about potential sexual partners, and one of the crucial items on it is 'would not interfere with blood donation'. I'd have to think long and hard about getting it on with someone who would defer me for a year from giving blood or plasma. I had a hard enough time accepting that major dental work like my wisdom teeth going bye-bye was going to knock me out of eligibility for a month. I'm O+. I do this. I do this because I can and because it's right for me to do so. I would not knock myself out of eligibility lightly, and that includes doing so for a night's fun.


There is a cat on my bed. Hermione-cat has warmed up to me, but not to Ecchi-chan so much. I am random. I should sleep.

Comments

[thette.livejournal.com]

Since you donate plasma, would it make you feel better about the dental work if I told you the most desirable plasma comes from AB+, and that your plasma can only be given to other people with 0? It's exactly reversed from when you donate red blood cells.

[azurelunatic]

That is good to know.

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

I don't think its horrible at all. I have the exact same thing on my list...can't interfere with blood donation.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

Heh. I wish I could have that criterion; I used to donate blood, and I'm O-, but I haven't for a year, well, because I'm afraid of lying to them. Really, they need to drop some of their restrictions.

[azurelunatic]

It just trips me out that two people who are perfectly eligible to give blood can walk into a room together, close the door, and then walk out mutually ineligible.

[azurelunatic]

Now I'm wondering what the restrictions would be on setting up a private blood bank, for those people who do not mind the risks of male/male boinking. And 'In the past year, had sex (even once) with someone whose sexual history you did not know, or knew or suspected to be high-risk' would be a question on there. The Red Cross, so far as I know, would be just fucking fine with me having unprotected sex with that man-h0 Shawn, who has never had sex for money or drugs so far as I know, nor used IV drugs, but who has a habit of screwing anything that moves so long as it's female and reasonably hot -- but not fine with me taking two certified clean male virgins into a room, watching them have sex with each other, and then having sex with them myself. That's just crazy.

I'd voluntarily defer myself for a year until I got tested if I were to get it on with someone whose sexual history I later learned to be Dubious or Bad, but the rules don't say that.

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

One thing I really don't understand is, they do check the blood before they officially accept it and all. So even if you're not high risk, if you have something, they reject it. Why do they exclude high risk people who don't actually have anything, then?

[azurelunatic]

The way it was explained to me, which does make sense for sane definitions of high-risk: Whatever the Next Big Thing is, the first people it's going to show up in is the high-risk people.

In sane definitions of high-risk, you're not high-risk. You're a shy college student with the occasional relationship, and internet/gaming are your anti-drug. I'm at more risk than you are, quite honestly, by virtue of having had sex with That Idiot Shawn nearly a decade ago.