All About STDs From Someone With An STD
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
From New York to Brazil, Washington to Australia, living with an STD poses similar challenges across the globe. This interviewee sent in her answers with an enthusiastic offer to help The STD Project and it’s mission to eradicate stigma after experiencing STD stigma in the medical sector. As such, one could easily get discouraged. Instead, [...]
There are 3 different kinds of STDs: bacterial, viral, and parasitic. Like bacterial STDs, viral STDs/STIs often give no warning signs or symptoms. This means you can get infected and infect a sexual partner without knowing it and serious complications which can cause irreversible damage can progress silently before you ever recognize a problem. Viral [...]
So far, The STD Project’s spent a lot of time talking about the positive aspects around contracting an STD (See: The Top 5 Reasons Living With an STD Has Positively Influenced My Life, for example), and how it doesn’t have to hinder opportunities and relationships, but to be truly authentic as I’m encouraging all of [...]
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