All About STDs From Someone With An STD
This interview came in as an anonymous submission via the contact form, and from there the author and I exchanged a few emails. She said, ‘Writing about my situation really makes me feel a lot better.’ Consequently, she’ll be posting a follow-up to this interview (which I’ll link through to once she does) in short [...]
When looking for pictures of 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 STDs, they are often the very worst case scenarios and can be meant to scare people into abstinence. [...]
There are 3 different kinds of STDs: bacterial, viral, and parasitic. Bacterial STDs are curable through treatment with antibiotics. Curable, that is, as long as you see a health-care provider, get tested and treated, follow through on all the medication, avoid sexual contact until cured, and make sure your sexual partner(s) get tested and treatment [...]
When it comes to STDs and specifically, STD testing windows, you want an STD to show up in the petri dish as if it were the biggest fish in that small pond – VERY obvious – lest you receive a false negative, right? Ok, maybe not – I was reaching for straws with this picture [...]
To continue our series – STD Interviews – this woman wrote in the other day courageously determined to share her story about HPV, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and a Herpes risk. It takes strength to share this openly and is testament to the plethora of people out there encountering STDs every day and often before the age [...]
Genital Herpes & Chlamydia This person has so graciously volunteered to be our first interview – yey!!! Thank you for sharing your story for The STD Project and for the many readers interested in hearing more. If you’d also like to share your story, you can do so by using the contact form! [...]
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