Why Don't Men Get Tested?

So as I have grown and matured, I have realized that men (especially black men) do not believe in getting tested. This whole idea puzzles me because your health should be very important to you. Sexually transmitted diseases are REAL. Nobody is invincible! I asked several college males about this and the answers for not getting tested were the furthest from smart!

1) Men don't get tested because they don't want people to see them in the clinic or wherever they may be testing. WHAT????????? That makes no sense. You should be proud to be getting yourself checked out and not sitting around with a dick that's slowly falling off. lol

2) Men don't get tested because they are too much of cowards to know the truth. They rather be sick and infected than to KNOW they are sick and infected. Crazed idea but so true. Women also are scared but most value themselves way too much to live in ignorance. Indeed, I was scared sitting in Kaiser Permanente the first time I got tested, but I DID IT.

3) Men don't get tested because they HONESTLY don't think they can catch anything. HA! One of the biggest cases of ignorance known to mankind. These dudes really feel like the girls they have sex with have flawless pussy. Yeah, girls may think they don't have nothing, but they probably do!

4) Men don't get tested because they claim they don't want to have to beat nobody's ass for giving them something. *YOU STUPID FOOL* Doctors can't tell you who transmitted the disease to who...They can only tell you that you got it and your partner may have it as well so please tell them to get tested also.

The bottom line is, our black men need to get their ish checked out. It's not cute and it's a safety hazard because you put your dick in one girl, and she sleeps with another dude. Then the cycle continues. PLEASE GET TESTED.

It Takes So Much

*all feelings expressed are real, but not necessarily MINE*

So today after I saw the look in your eyes after you looked into mine, I realized it takes so much.

It takes so much to walk away from you as if your place in my life is minimal.

It takes so much not to scream at people through a bull horn just how much I love you.

It takes so much not to walk up to every person I see and tell them about the text messages you sent me last night.

It takes so much not to tweet about the phone call I received from you this morning, as you expressed your love and affection for me

It takes so much to settle for a "church hug" when I really want to hold you tight and not let go

It takes so much to ignore the butterflies I get when I see your smile

It takes so much not to part your lips with my tongue and taste your nectar

I guess it wouldn't take so much if I wasn't another man's woman and you weren't another woman's man.

You should be mine.