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 […]
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 […]
6 Things I Wish They Would Have Taught Me In Sex-Ed About STIs/STDs
#1 – Um, having sex can lead to STIs/STDs! This may seem ridiculous, and I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember STIs/STDs being a part of sex-ed at all – maybe that was my problem to begin with – baha! I don’t know. I was either too excited to be talking about sex […]
Living With An STI/STD – Reflecting On Stigma
I sat down this evening intending to write about the recent awards The STI Project has received, and I will, don’t worry, because they are super super cool and I have a really awesome discount to give all of my readers for their STI testing needs as a result!!! So, I promise, I’ll get to […]
STIs and Relationships – The STI Project’s Guidebook – Friends
STIs and Relationships You mean to say, they can coincide harmoniously?!?! Yes. Baloney. Er, Bologna. Total rubbish, and I’m leaving your website right now, because STIs and relationships have always resulted in epic failures of colossal proportions. Epic failures of colossal proportions, huh? That’s one Hiroshima-esque STI, if you ask me! Lucky for you (and […]
What Is It Like To Get Tested For STIs/STDs? – STI Testing
My STI Testing Experience Today I went to get tested for STIs! You might be asking yourself, “Why would she get STI testing – she already knows she has an STI (I have genital herpes – you can read my story here) and has had other STIs (HPV, scabies and vaginitis)- wouldn’t she have gotten […]
A Healthy Helping of STI Hater-Aid – Fighting Stigma
STI/STD Stigma Were I to say The STI Project’s mission is an easy endeavor and one without challenges or opposition, I would be lying to each and every one of you and losing sight of the very motto The STI Project is perpetuating: Be Authentic ~ Break the Stigma! While I believe it is imperative […]
Genital Herpes (or any other STI/STD) Won’t Stop You
A Genital Herpes Bucket List ~ Do you have an STI/STD? Do you have an STI and feel like life is over, things will never be the same, the universe hates you, and the world is simultaneously ending?!? If you answered yes to any of the above, I understand; nevertheless, I am here to tell […]