STD/STI Project
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- I'm kind of worried...
- Hey! What's with the face?
- It's nothing. Don't worry about it.
- Yeah. We’ve been getting a little more serious lately, but I’m scared about getting an STI.
- …It’s about your girlfriend, isn’t it?
- Doesn’t that mean that my sex life will be over?
- Not necessarily.
- Many STIs are curable, or treatable with antiviral medications that will reduce your symptoms and lower the risk of giving someone else an infection.
- That’s a relief, but I still don’t want to risk living with an STD for the rest of my life.
- Luckily, if I use a condom, I’ll be safe, right?
- That’s not quite right.
- If you use a condom properly, they are very effective in preventing the spread of HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis, among others.
- But you can still contract things like herpes, HPV, and scabies, among others, because they can be outside of the surface area of a condom, and some things can spread with just infected skin-to-skin contact.
- So it’s still important to still take other steps to be safe.
- Well, condoms aren’t safe, but oral sex and kissing are still fine, right?
- No, those still present the risk of infection through infected skin-to-skin contact and saliva.
- For example, herpes and HPV can spread from the genitals to the mouth, and syphilis, HPV, herpes, and monkeypox can all spread through kissing.
- Okay. Well, I’ll be able to tell if my partner or someone else has an STI, because the symptoms show up pretty soon after you get infected, right?
- Well, some infections can take even years to show signs, while the person who has it can still spread it.
- That’s why you should always get tested with your partners.
- But we’re both still virgins, and we plan on keeping our relationship monogamous. So isn’t it impossible to get an STI from each other?
- STIs can spread through things that you wouldn’t normally consider sexual, like infected skin-to-skin contact, dirty needles, or even from mother to child through childbirth or breastmilk.
- And because STIs are often asymptomatic, there’s no way to tell whether you have one or not unless you get tested!
- One last thing.
- If I do end up getting an STI in the future, once I get treated, I’ll get an immunity to it like for normal infections, right?
- No, even if you don’t get one that can’t be treated and you’ll have forever, you won’t get immunity and can still get STDs you’ve had before just the same way.
- It’s always important to protect yourself!
- Thanks! That really cleared up a few misconceptions I had.
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