I understand that HIV is no longer a big deal nowadays because of condom protection and other preventative measures like PrEP.

How about for the other more common ones like herpes and HPVs (which you can get from skin contact)? How do you guys increase your probability that the woman you'll be sleeping with don't have it especially when picking them at bars and such?

It would be cool if TRP would have a sidebar about such.

EDIT Also, stories like this guy went through (obviously a BPiller) makes me -- for a lack of a better term -- scared of hooking up. Sure it's curable, but the induced anxiety, depression, physical pain, and medical cost is just discouraging.