Pictures of STIs/STDs When looking for pictures of STIs/STDs on google or any other search engine, you’re bound to come across incredibly graphic, disgusting, and down right scary pictures of STDs. While these pictures are sometimes real depictions of specific STIs/STDs, they are often the very worst case scenarios and can be meant to scare […]
STI/STD List – Different Types of Viral STDs
There are 3 different kinds of STIs/STDs: bacterial, viral, and parasitic. Like bacterial STIs/STDs, viral STIs/STDs often give no warning signs or symptoms. This means you can contract it and infect a sexual partner without knowing it and serious complications which can cause irreversible damage can progress silently before you ever recognize a problem. Viral […]
The STI Project Interviews for WPRR Public Reality Radio
The STI Project Was Asked To Interview on a Radio Station! Full Show which includes an interview with Senior Science Correspondent from HuffPost – Cara Santa Maria!!! (She’s lovely): Full Length – Dave Fletcher’s opening topics, Cara Santa Maria from HuffPost Science, and The STI Project Just my segment of the show – an hour […]
STI/STD Testing Windows – When To Get Tested for STDs
STI/STD Testing Windows When it comes to STI/STDs and specifically, STI/STD testing windows, you want to make sure you’re testing at the right time – lest you receive a false negative or positive, right? If you have an STI/STD, you want to know with certainty so you can treat it or start managing it, and […]
Dr. Awkward and the Not-So-Awesome Genital Herpes Diagnosis
So far, The STI Project’s spent a lot of time writing about the positive aspects around contracting an STI/STD (See: The Top 5 Reasons Living With an STI/STD Has Positively Influenced My Life, for example), and how it doesn’t have to hinder opportunities and relationships, but to be truly authentic as I’m encouraging all of […]
Safer Sex Guide – How to Reduce Your Risk of STIs
If you’re like me, you’d like to avoid additional STIs. If you’re not like me (I already have genital herpes, have had scabies and vaginitis – read about my story), you’d like to avoid STIs all together! If you’re not like either of those examples, maybe you’d like to prevent transmission of an infection or […]
Sexual Activities That Put You At Risk for STIs/STDs
Think you may have contracted or transmitted a sexually transmitted infection or disease? Worried about the weekend you just had and what you did over the course of too many beverages or while finally getting some alone time with a new hottie? Here are the things you could be at risk of contracting or transmitting […]
Observations and Anecdotes from an STI/STD Testing Counselor
This guest post was written by Elissa White, an STI/STD testing counselor at getSTDtested.com. As an STI/STD testing counselor at getSTDtested.com, some might argue it’s a profession worthy of an episode of Discovery Channel’s ‘Dirty Jobs’. Being an STI/STD testing counselor is certainly not for the faint of heart, whether I’m serving as a shoulder to cry on or I’m […]
