Originally Posted By Chi61
the day before I got an email from her with the day of protocol - where to go, etc but it also stated when I arrived we would both take COVID tests and not session if either of us tested negative twice (in case of false positive on the first test)

I had a number of issues with this but was mostly driven by flying in for the session. If I tested positive was I supposed to turn around jump back on a plane knowing I had COVID? Stay in this city until I tested negative? Also, traveling that far knowing not sessioning was a possibility and having no control over it just felt like too big a risk for me to justify going. And I guess in some regards it just felt like a bridge too far for me. I don’t mind providing vac proof, I’ve sessioned in a mask, I saw a Domme who required pre and post showers due to COVID (which I still don’t understand the reasoning for). But for some reason, perhaps the intrusive nature of the test, this just felt like too much for me.


This is one of the big risks of scheduling a session that you have to fly to during a time like this. Yes, the Domme should have absolutely told you in advance that you would have to take a rapid test before she would session with you, but I'm not sure why you declined after going through the trouble (and expense) of arranging the trip? How is a test more intrusive than being asked to prove you had some injections? Or being asked to get naked in someone else's shower?

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I’m curious folks here thoughts on: 1) are other Dommes requiring tests and 2) if sessioning would you agree to it?


I do not require tests. Mainly because they have been shown to be unreliable. One of Abbott Labs' rapid had shown up to a 75% false negative rate in one study I read. In May of 2021 the FDA issued a warning about this. Taking 2 tests makes more sense but there's still a chance you could have 2 false negatives -- especially if you had not gone through seroconversion.

I just ask my clients that if you're symptomatic you stay home. As I would with any other illness.

If I'm unsure, I just tell them let's wear masks for this one.

Is any of this 100% effective? No, but nothing is -- except not being around other people at all.


Edited by Mistress Tissa (02/01/22 01:15 AM)