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Offline paper7

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What is a GUM clinic and where do I find one that's away from home?
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 Centre for sti stds etc there are many in Bristol I use the one in Tower Hill,  google is your friend here'x
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 Centre for sti stds etc there are many in Bristol I use the one in Tower Hill,  google is your friend here'x

Large reception desk, gents one end, ladies the other.

You will be asked to fill out a form with your personal details on (you do this by yourself in the large reception area)

Don't be surprised if you're given a number and asked to come back in 2-4 hours time.

When you come back for your appointment, the waiting area for males is along a corridor further into the building.

The thought of visiting a GUM clinic  is quite scary, the reality is completely the opposite.

People just sit in the waiting room reading their phones, books, newspapers etc like any other waiting room.

No one is bothered about you or anybody else, it's all quite ordinary.

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What is a GUM clinic and where do I find one that's away from home?
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If you don't know what it is why do you know you need to find one, and why would it need to be away from home  :unknown:

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Offline paper7

If you don't know what it is why do you know you need to find one, and why would it need to be away from home  :unknown:
Think about it! :hi:

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Think about it! :hi:

I don't need to, why nto just answer the question insted of trolling the forum  :unknown:

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GUM stands for Genito-Urinary Medicine which overlaps with Sexual Health, but Sexual Health is provided by Unity in the Greater Bristol area External Link/Members Only

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Offline Stiltskin

Large reception desk, gents one end, ladies the other.

Just out of interest what sort of age range do you see in there? Any bloke over 40 must scream punter :D.

Also wondering what the women are like and don't say riddled.

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Just out of interest what sort of age range do you see in there? Any bloke over 40 must scream punter :D.

Also wondering what the women are like and don't say riddled.

Use a fake name and get the correct testing by telling he truth about punting, simple really.

Offline Uoti2

Just out of interest what sort of age range do you see in there? Any bloke over 40 must scream punter :D.

A private clinic in Mayfair at six p.m. is probably going to have a different demographic from that of a drop-in centre in Teesside at half nine on a Monday morning. However, since you asked in the SW region, I'm sure what houseboot said is representative, especially when he said, "No one is bothered about you or anybody else."

My experience of a clinic in the SW is that most of the other men in the waiting area are under thirty, although I did once see a bloke who must have been in his late seventies. (No, it wasn't a mirror, thank you so much.) The range for women is wider, although there are more twenty-somethings than over-fifties. There are single women and couples, about half with infants, but few single men.

There are always more women than men. Sometimes I'm the only man there. I never get any looks at all, from anyone. (Then again, as any older man knows, somewhere around your fortieth birthday you cease to exist to the under-thirties except as a potential mode of transport or a particularly annoying obstacle.)

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Also wondering what the women are like and don't say riddled.

The women look like normal women, to me. Perhaps a few years younger than average, maybe a little more subdued, certainly much less likely to be yelling QUITE as loudly as they do on the street about what Shazza said to Kazza last night on TowieEastEnd Neighbour Street or whatever it is; but otherwise your standard-issue woman.

By "riddled", I'd really like to think you meant, "My first is in your mouth but not in your arse; my second is etc. etc. and you can swallow my (w)hole, what am I?" but disappointingly, I suspect you meant, "Unclean! A pox is upon her! Burn the hag!" I don't know: you doctors and your medical terms.

There's a tendency to assume that most people are basically a lot like us and that their attitudes, concerns and experiences will be much the same as ours. In a sexual health clinic, that just isn't true. Women have more bits, and a lot of those bits are more complicated, and they can have ghastly things wrong with them that we men have never even heard of.

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Just out of interest what sort of age range do you see in there? Any bloke over 40 must scream punter :D.

Also wondering what the women are like and don't say riddled.

All ages.

Lots of young women, student types and young professionals (not this profession).

Men of all ages but probably older than the ladies. Even some over 60 ..... well I know at least one was

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Offline Bigwilts

Just out of interest what sort of age range do you see in there? Any bloke over 40 must scream punter :D.

Also wondering what the women are like and don't say riddled.
The age range you see covers the age range of sexually active people

Thy could have gone there for many sexual health reasons, I have been there as a matter of routine due to being sexually active, for a specific check due to a broken condom or for ensuring a clean bill of health when entering into a new relationship


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Offline snaitram99

Just out of interest what sort of age range do you see in there? Any bloke over 40 must scream punter :D.

Also wondering what the women are like and don't say riddled.

The one I go to they seem to assume at first that older blokes going there are gay.

The women are prob mainly 20's (maybe 30's) and younger ones are often in pairs, but I think can be going for routine contraception advice/treatment.