Plumage
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As a previous poster put it, us humans are poor at assessing probabilities of risks. I mean if there is a concern of contracting a STI merely from kissing a WL (or indeed DATY), then why would you drive a car, or catch a uber, to visit the WL as the risk of having an accident and being seriously maimed is higher by order of magnitude.
The nonfatal traffic injury rate is around 7.5 injuries per 1 million person-trips. If you made 2 trips a day, it would take you (on average) 195 years before you got injured. (The odds are much lower again for being 'seriously maimed'.)
Given that 1 in 20 people has chlamydia (for example), and far less than 1 in 20 people have been seriously maimed in a car accident, I think the maths comes out in favour of taking proper precautions in casual sexual encounters.
After all, despite the lower risk of being maimed in a car, you wear your seat belt, right babe?
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