HPV & HSV1 – The Year of 2 STDs – Interviewing the Author – Happy Hump Day Podcasts

Interviewing the Author of the STD Interview - HPV & HSV1

As promised, today, we’re interviewing Lindsey Wahowiak author of our most recent STD Interview as well as the xoJane post titled, ’The Year of Two STDs or Why My Vagina Has Been on Hiatus.’ Not only was it an absolute delight having Lindsey on the show, she’s agreed to come back and chat with us again [...]

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 [...]

HPV & HSV1 – The Year of 2 STDs – STD Interviews

STD Interview about HPV and Living with HSV1

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 [...]

The STD Project’s Post Featured on BlogHer

BlogHer Chose to Feature The STD Project

An incredible complement and a wonderful opportunity to reach additional readers who are living with an STD, the BlogHer Publishing Network chose our post as a feature today! Aside from being honored and ecstatic simultaneously, we’re even further encouraged to continue our work. This is just the beginning of a very progressive movement, folks. BlogHer [...]

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 [...]

Herpes Blood Tests – Why I Haven’t Been Type-Specific Tested Yet

Type-Specific Testing for Herpes and Other STDs

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 [...]

Living with Herpes – HSV2 – STD Interviews

Living with HSV2 - Genital Herpes

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 [...]