Once You Have an STD You Can’t Get it Again – So False

Once you have an STD, you can't get it again - so false!

This guest blog post was written by Dr. Lisa Oldson, Medical Director for SexualHealth.com (beginning after the STD Awareness Month intro). It’s STD Awareness Month! Today’s myth: ‘Once you have an STD, you can’t get it again’ and why that’s so false! We’re implementing The STD Project’s month-long myth busting series: So True, So False! Yeah, we [...]

Why Talking About STDs is Healing – Happy Hump Day Podcasts

Why Talking About STDs is Healing

Hiya, folks! We’ve got an interesting podcast in store for you today – I think it’s bound to inspire, and it further outlines the foundation of The STD Project and why we talk about STDs all of the time – out loud! See what you think… What to Expect When You’re Expecting…a Podcast In an [...]

STI Prevention: 5 Things You Should Know about Condoms

5 Things You Should Know about STI Prevention with Condoms

This guest post was written by Liz Sabatiuk, Social Media Manager for Bedsider. We think it’s safe to say that good sexual decision-making – not to mention good sex – goes hand in hand with good communication and trust. That’s why we are so on board with The STD Project’s vision to ‘achieve modern-day STD prevention by [...]

Early HIV Symptoms and How to Spot Them

How to Spot Early HIV Symptoms

This guest post was written by Katie Brind’Amour, MS, a Certified Health Education Specialist, a freelance health and wellness writer, and Social Media Manager for Women’s Healthcare Topics. How to Spot Early HIV Symptoms The earliest HIV symptoms — if you experience any at all — can be disguised as other common illnesses, making a new HIV infection difficult [...]

Living with HSV – ‘The ‘someone else’…was me…’ – STD Interviews

STD Interviews - Living with HSV

This interview came to us as an anonymous submission via the contact form. What’s great about this post is that it amalgamates the two story-telling formats we have on The STD Project rather beautifully – STD Interviews and free-form writing. The author chose to answer the interview questions, which, can be a nice point of [...]

Have Your Views About STDs Changed Since Dating Someone with an STD?

Views About STDs Changing Since Dating Someone with an STD

This guest post was written by P. Nickle who loves someone who has an STD - The STD Project’s admin, Jenelle Marie. I would say, yes, my views have definitely changed about STDs and the people who have them. For the last 2 years, I have been in a relationship with a woman who has an [...]

Living with HSV1 – One Reader’s Fresh Perspective

HSV1 - Herpes - One Reader's Fresh Perspective

This short story was written by a 23 year old female law student who is living with HSV1. Contracting HSV1 In the summer of 2011, I was dating a very nice, clean-cut boy on leave from the military who performed oral sex on me, resulting in a few herpes bumps a week later. I don’t [...]

How STDs Held Me Back – Happy Hump Day Podcasts

Happy Hump Day Podcasts - Jenelle Marie talks about how STDs held her back.

Happy New Year podcast listeners! We took a couple of weeks off for the holiday season and we’re back with another installment of our Happy Hump Day Podcasts! What to Expect When You’re Expecting…a Podcast In an effort to cater to short attention spans (mainly, my own), we keep these podcasts between 10 and 15 [...]