, we're glad to hear the show invests in STI () tests for participants, according to The Golden Bachelor himself, Gerry Turner.“I was actually traveling with an old girlfriend—we were just friends—and I got a call from ABC wanting me to initiate the process to go get a STD test,” Turner recounted on Justin Long's podcast, per . Turner explained that testing felt unnecessary during his decades-long marriage to his late wife, so he didn't know what to expect when he went in for a sexual check-up.“That may have been my very first STD test…I had no idea what was gonna happen," he said. "I didn’t know if they were gonna look in the iris of my eye, take a urine sample [or] a blood sample.