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I did it back in college but it kinda sucks. I had weird bruises all the time, sometimes I'd get turned away for not having juicy enough veins, sometimes it hurt to get jabbed. Not a fun experience but it got me by.
It also sucks that they're allowed to call it "donating" when these companies primarily sell and export your plasma for profit. It's selling blood to vampires.
If I just get a bruise here and there it wouldn't be a big deal to me, as long as they heal. Just more literal than the usual means by which the vampires feed off of me.
I guess I'm just wondering if there's any way in which it is particularly worse than other forms of exploitation.
I mean, really, it's just how you emotionally react to it. If it doesn't bother you, don't go looking for reasons for it to.