The recent thread on a Mongering survival kit (great idea btw) got me wondering about its efficacy. Here's the thread:
http://forum.sex141.com/eforum/v ... &extra=page%3D1
Unfortunately it appears that wet wipes and clean up stuff is all for esthetics (which by itself is important, nobody likes a stinky weiner!
) . Peeing and washing after sex (unprotected) is not sufficient to prevent disease. Here's an excerpt from a military study:
"In the 1970s, a study among some 500 U.S. male sailors who had sexual intercourse with women while on shore leave in the western Pacific concluded that STD infection rates did not decrease significantly if a man urinated within 30 minutes after intercourse or if he washed his genitals within an hour.7/"
However, from the same U.N. publication there was a reference to a more, ahem, invasive set of procedures that the Army claimed DID reduce STD transmission. I particularly liked the part about the penile injection
"Servicemen who did engage in sexual activity with prostitutes were told to return to their military base and report for emergency treatment within three hours after sexual intercourse. The procedure involved several steps. First, the soldier urinated, then washed his genitals with soap and water, followed by bichloride of mercury. A medical attendant inspected the soldier's genital area, then injected Protargol, which contains silver protein, into the penis. The soldier would urinate five minutes later. Finally, calomel ointment was rubbed onto the penis, and the penis was wrapped in wax paper. The soldier was not to urinate for at least four to five hours after treatment." I hope it was a beautiful nurse doing all this rubbing!
While the military didn't publish the results for the U.N. study, I remember once reading a meta analysis that got access to the military's records and reported that all that scrubbing and injecting in fact didn't change infection rates at all. Bummer!
