As a cautionary note, over 70% of STD's are symptomless? Gonorrhea can exhibit no symptoms for up to thirty years!
Sexual health, or to be more exact, sexual 'ill-health' is no joke.
Just imagine the situation... Your best friend confides in you that he has an itch in his groin that will not go away, and little creepy things have set up a camp around his 'bits?'
Perhaps it's yourself that has an unpleasant discharges from your dick, and it feels like you are pissing glass when you'r having a pee?
Maybe you are in a relationship that looks like it is going some where. Neither of you are exhibiting any symptoms of anything nasty, and you want to have unprotected sex?
So what do you do? Where do you go? Who do you talk to? Would a visit to your GP be a good idea? Could a visit to the local 'GUM' or 'STD' clinic be an even better idea?
Below is a list of some of the NHS, STD & GUM Clinics in Kent.Please note some of these have limited opening hours
Ashford - 01233 - 616177 William Harvey Hospital
Ashford - 01233 - 622474 St Stephens Clinic
Canterbury - 01227 - 783120 Kent & Canterbury Hospital
Dover - 01304 - 865500
Folkestone - 01303 - 228848
Margate - 01843 - 227903 Includes 'walk in clinic' Tues 9-11.30 & 1.30-4pm plus other days and times.
Sheppy - 01795 - 879100
Sittingbourne 01795- 418300
There are other clinics in Kent to which we do not as yet know the telephone numbers. If anybody reading this can supply us with the relevant information, we would be most greatful.
More information on sexual health and related matters includes www.fpa.org.uk
In case you think all this doom and gloom could not possibly apply to you, here is a Cautionary Tale
In the 1980's, a friend of mine had the 'clap' (as 'Non-specific Urethritis' used to be called in those heady days,) which he contracted from his first boyfriend, who had neither symptoms, or discharges, or pain...
Of course if they had gone for a test before they tried the bed springs, things might have been very different....
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