There’s a lovely little video circulating right now by Nadia Bolz Weber where she talks about the difference between being a good Christian and being an honest one. The idea is that it’s much more empowering, freeing, and real to speak your truth rather than to attempt to always be good – good is subjective, […]
Gonorrhea, Chlamydia & PID – My Doctor Seems Disgusted – STI Interviews
This STD Interview is sponsored by Xmassage. Their team is comprised of experienced massage therapists who have specialized in tantric and full body sensual massage since long before those sites existed. To learn more, visit the Xmassage Blog. Despite having experienced this myself, I’m always disappointed to learn about practitioners shaming people once they are diagnosed with […]
Herpes – It Makes You Accept People – STI Interviews
What better way to turn lemons into lemonade than to take a herpes diagnosis and use it to help your friends. We hear this a lot, at The STI Project, that once someone shares their experience with their friends, they become the resident STD guru, and we think that’s awesome. Most people don’t know who […]
HSV2 – 3 of My Friends Have it Too – STI Interviews
Thank goodness for interviews like this! All of the perspectives shared on The STI Project are anonymous, authentic, and absolutely necessary, but I love to see the progression that happens after the initial shock and shame. While every experience in our life alters our perspective and changes how we view subsequent related events, that change […]
Molluscum Contagiosum – It’s a Way to Weed Out the Boys – STI Interviews
While this interviewee’s infection was likely acquired through her work as a preschool teacher, the stigma associated with a highly contagious viral infection still persists and causes incredible barriers to dating and having a sex life. A lot of folks get hung up on how something was contracted, but the focus should be on how […]
Genital Herpes – I Was Accused of Cheating and Then I Accused Him – STI Interviews
This interview has me feeling all of the feels. Herpes, both HSV1 and HSV2, are well-known, but they are not known well. What I mean is, most people are terrified of contracting herpes, somewhat understandably because of the stigma, but most people have it – either strain, orally or genitally. It’s one of the most […]
Herpes – We Had No Idea We Weren’t Being Tested for HSV – STI Interviews
Most folks assume that when they ask for STD testing they are being tested for everything. That’s not actually possible, but they don’t know that. Then when they’re diagnosed with an infection, they are shocked and left scrambling for answers, because they weren’t told that they could only be tested for a few of the […]
HSV2 – I Never Told Him He Gave it to Me – STI Interviews
One of the first questions interviewers ask me is if I know from whom I contracted herpes – HSV2, for me. And the answer is always the same, “No, I don’t, because when I was diagnosed, I had already been sexually active with more than one person, and I was too afraid of asking the […]
