All About STDs From Someone With An STD
Stop the presses, people; I have herpes (HSV) – genital herpes – and more specifically, I have the herpes simplex virus type 2! Enthusiasm and exclamation marks intended. No, but, really, I’ve actually known I’ve had herpes for years and years (14, as of the date of this post)…. So, why this post in the [...]
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 [...]
This interview was written by Lindsey Wahowiak, author of the xoJane post titled, ’The Year of Two STDs or Why My Vagina Has Been on Hiatus.’ Having found Lindsey via the xoJane post, I knew her story would touch our readers and I was delighted when she agreed to contribute. Telling one’s story either publicly or [...]
Hi Folks! I’ve been spending some time on the BlogHer and EmpowHer networks the last couple of days writing versions of my story to share with others, and I wanted to make sure to link to them here as well, so you guys have an opportunity to read what I’ve written there too. Posts About [...]
This guest post was written by P. Nickle who loves someone who has an STD - The STD Project’s admin, Jenelle Marie. Let me start off by saying, sex can be complicated regardless of whether your partner has an STD or not. We’re not talking about the casual one night hook-up here, rather, the continuation (or [...]
This guest post was written by P. Nickle who loves someone who has an STD – The STD Project’s admin, Jenelle Marie. Gentlemen, I’m going to give it to you straight, finding out your potential girlfriend or significant other has an STD is kind of a shocker. I’m not about to try and sugar coat [...]
Recently, I had a written exchange with a reader about blood testing for HSV1/HSV2. In my STD Interview, I mention not having taken a blood test to determine which strain of HSV I’m living with. Diagnosed 14 years ago at the family doctor’s office, with a very obvious genital outbreak, a blood test was neither [...]
Thanks to our most recent anonymous submission to the STD Interviews, we now have a male’s perspective about what it’s like to live with herpes – HSV2, in particular. While there are certainly similarities across all STD diagnosis and between sexes, my experience has often found some of the initial feelings and on-going struggles to [...]
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