[shimmeringfaerie]

Well I'm a virgin, but I've been going for the last 4 years, just to get birth control. And I'm terrified of cancer, so it's nice to get checked out once a year, just to put my mind at ease about certain things. I mean I know when it comes to cervical cancer the odds are unlikely, but then again UTIs are supposed to be a sexually transmitted disease and I managed to get one so...

A UTI isn't a sexually transmitted disease. Often sexually active girls will get them because sex makes it easier to transmit bacteria, but they can also be caused by genetics and women can easily get them regardless of sexual status. The theory is that a woman's urethra is quite short, so bacteria can easily get into the bladder.

'm not even sure how I go about seeing a gyno in the UK, I think we just go to the doctors to get pap smears or check ups if we think anything's wrong.

Yeah, I think that's what we do here too. I know my mum goes to our normal doctor to get pap smears.