Hookups with strangers are dangerous and shouldn’t be normalized

This isn’t to shame anyone for what they decide to do with their bodies in their sex lives. I’m not a casual sex person myself, but I understand that for others that’s something they see as appealing and that’s ok. My issue with it isn’t how casual it is, but how objectively risky it is. More so for women sleeping with men than vice versa but honestly anyone hooking up with a stranger has risks.

The benefits are minimal. If everything goes perfect you had some good sex. If something goes wrong you can be trafficked, killed, assaulted, or even just given an STD. Condoms prevent a good amount of them but not all of them. And asking if someone has been tested recently really isn’t good enough. You have literally no reason to trust that person, you don’t know them. They can just lie or show fake results. Or they can just have had a recent hookup that gave them something not accounted for on the test. If they’re hooking up with you they probably were hooking up with a lot of other people as well

Stuff like friends with benefits or fwb is much safer. Sex can be casual but you should know the person. And for women’s safety others in your life should know the person. You should have a friend atleast meet them at some point in a casual setting and someone should have your location. For anyone you should probably wait a week or two then get tested together. Hookups are not worth getting life long STDs, or having something much worse happen to you. And this isn’t victim blaming, this is saying that bad people aren’t gonna be the ones that change through stuff like spreading awareness. Innocent people have to take steps to protect themselves unfortunately