This question popped into my head today at work… because, well, it’s kinda where I’m at right now.
My SO and I both smoke, and I know she’s been suffering from a heavy chest/nasal cold she’s been dealing with for about 4 days now. I’ve taken the practical measures of no mucous exchanges and such (blow a kiss, no real kisses), and I’ve managed to stay free of evil germs so far. Just so I don’t sound like a cruel, insensitive asshole, I’d make the same concessions to her if I were the sick one.
I’m pretty sure I had an opportunity last night (she’s starting to feel better). I didn’t take it any further because her cold is winding down, but I don’t think it’s gone yet, and I can wait another 48 hours until it’s cleared totally.
What would you do in that situation? We’re talking a common 3-6 day chest cold here, not herpes or AIDS.
In your situation (that is, living with the person that is sick) I’d go for it under the assumption I’m going to get sick anyways just by being around them so much.
Actually, I’d go for it even if I didn’t live with the other person, but then again, I’m a horny 20something male.
That’s the thing that’s biting at the back of my head. She’s coughed up so much crap/virus into our comforter, that I’m thinking I definitely should’ve been infected by now at day #4. So the back of my brain was fighting with my penis. Went kinda like:
Penis: You know, she’s been coughing up a lung for the past 3 days, that virus has to be everywhere already, you probably had that virus before and our white blood cells have the antibody at the ready. Go for the gold!
Brain: Hold on there penis, we have been taking precautionary measures and maybe those are what have saved us from 4 days of suffering. Can’t you wait another 48 hours and make sure we are both ok, and the virus has cleared her system?
Penis: We haven’t had sex in 9 days! Between her period, and the cold which kicked in during the middle of the period, I’m horny.
Brain: Well, we can write off the days she was on her period. We wouldn’t have gotten a piece during that time anyways… but can’t you wait another 48 hours penis?? She’ll be horny by then too.
And I guess that’s when my brain won out. Congratulations to anyone who read all that, that’s the longest typed soliloquy I’ve ever typed between my brain and penis. LOL
Well Brain makes a good point, like always, the bastard. It seems your problem was waiting those first four days at all.
Here’s how it woulda been with me:
Me: Hey babe you sound like you’re gettin’ sick. You feelin’ ok?
Her: [An answer of some sort]
Me: Well wanna have sex before you’re too sick to want to?
Take kissing. You would have thought that French kissing a snotty lover was a bad idea on many levels. But contrary to widespread belief, it is very hard to catch a cold by exchanging saliva. In 1984, researchers had the unenviable job of observing hundreds of students kissing. Kissing, they concluded, resulted in no transmission of the cold virus.
“The virus travels in the mucus from the respiratory system,” explains Professor RonEccles, director of the Common Cold Centre at Cardiff University, Wales. “Unless you have a bad cough, and some of the respiratory mucus has made its way into your saliva, the cold virus will not be transmitted by kissing.”
Most of us think colds are highly contagious. Certainly, most adults get two to five colds a year (schoolchildren can catch double this number). But scientists say colds are not, in fact, terribly easy to pass on.
This is because the mucus from the respiratory tract of someone infected has to get directly into your respiratory tract.
To do this, an infected person must either sneeze or cough near you so you inhale their infected droplets, or touch a surface, allowing you pick the virus up on your fingers.*
I gotta give a big old :dubious: to this one. How many of us have ever gotten to french kissing without heavy breathing going on?
Yeah, if I walked up to a random stranger and just stuck my tongue down her throat without any warning, we might get away ok… When I making out with a women, there tends to be heavy breathing going on by both parties. Would that not qualify as exchanging respiratory “deposits”?
This is not hypothetical for me. I’ve done it more than once. Who gives a shit about a cold? If you live with the person you’re probably going to get it anyway.
I’m forced to note that it’s not really a soliloquy unless your penis or brain is addressing the audience, and especially not if they’re both doing it.
