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Originally posted by electrastan
This is honestly the worst This is why I've stopped doing grindr and all sorts of.
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Me too. I never used Scruff for hookups, mainly just to meet gay friends since that's the only way to meet gay people nowadays aside from the club scene; but some of the things I've seen on there have disturbed me. It's insane to think that people will meet without knowing anything about each other for the sole purpose of having sex. It's so dangerous!
I got into an argument with somebody I met awhile back. They were insisting on having sex (which wasn't going to happen), and asked if I was tested. I said, "Yes," and they said, "Okay, great!" I then asked them if they believed me, and they said, "Yes, of course!" I asked why, since they barely knew me, and they said, "Because, people don't lie about that kind of stuff..." I spent the next 15 minutes explaining to him that I could easily be HIV positive and lie to him about it, and he would have no way of knowing since the symptoms aren't always obvious (people think HIV positive people have a giant sign on their forward stating that they have the disease).
The first time I actually met somebody who was HIV positive was around Christmas time, and it was through Scruff. We were hanging out, and he was explaining his life to me, and out of nowhere, said, "Yeah, and then I found out I was HIV positive..." I didn't know how to react. I had never encountered that before, and it was so weird at first. I guess it's really common in Nashville.