#stis

[crippled-peeper]

happy Pride to anyone living with and recovering from STIs and a very go fuck yourself to 35 year old “most marginalized in the room” people who shame, harass, stalk & abuse us because they think calling themselves a wolfdog xenogender magically erases all the homophobia and ableism they picked up in their adolescence

[hellyeahscarleteen]

Here at Scarleteen, we love talking about how we can manage risks when we’re engaging in sexual activities. We also believe that our sexual health is holistic: What is going on in the rest of our body affects our sexual well-being too. And there are other ways we exist in the world that also expose us to risks. The COVID-19 pandemic is a great example of what we're talking about. Getting sick with COVID can put your health at serious risk, especially if you’re infected multiple times. As health-conscious people who also care very much about protecting our community, especially our friends and loved ones who are immunocompromised or already living with a disability, we think it’s really important to continue doing everything we can to prevent the spread of COVID-19. We need to help protect our community members who are more vulnerable. Much like how, when engaging in sexual activity, we try to prevent the spread of STIs.

And that’s exactly what this article is about! Writer Liz Duck-Chong explores what treating COVID-19 like an STI would look like. What regular practices can we implement to keep ourselves and our community healthy? What conversations can we be having to reduce stigma around both having COVID-19 and also working to prevent its spread?

Whether it’s COVID or STIs, communal health is everyone’s responsibility! So check out Liz’s article and read up on best practices for protecting yourself and your loved ones from COVID (and STIs too, these practices will work for both!)

Did you know you can apply safer sex practices to COVID-cautious choices, as well as other respiratory infections?

[certifiedsexed]

are all warts caused by an sti? because i know they are all caused by hpv, which i’ve always thought of as just an sti. how are warts transmitted in other ways, if they are? why are the types of hpv that are sexually transmitted only sexually transmitted? i hope this made sense

Yes. HPV is an STI and all warts are caused by HPV. HPV is generally transmitted through skin-to-skin contact, which is part of what makes it so contagious. It's not bodily fluids, its almost always skin to skin (including contact with things containing enough skin particles).

It's easiest to spread through things like contact with genitalia because they've got mucus membranes which make them more susceptible to spreading and contacting it. But it can spread through other areas as well.

For example, someone with HPV could transmit it to a baby when giving birth. There are some that can spread through reusing someone's used (unwashed) towel that contains enough skin. You can get it from touching someone else's warts! Things like that.

See, a lot of STIs transmit in ways outside of sexually. It's just more common for them to transmit through sexual activity or its more common for it to be dangerous when transmitted through sexual activity.

Its not that they solely transmit sexually. Its usually just easier to transmit infections like that through mucus membranes like the genitals!

Hope this helps a little! Lemme know if you have any other questions or this didn't make sense, though. 💞

[mxjackparker]

I’m glad you aren’t worried about STIs, but that is a really privileged position to be in, even as a sex worker. People in other countries don’t have easy access to treatment or have to pay ridiculous amounts for it. Getting an STI from a careless partner could even have negative impacts on some people’s health particularly if they don’t catch it in time or aren’t able to afford treatment or can’t access treatment without risk of being jailed or deported. Just because you are a sex worker doesn’t mean you have the ability to wave away the negative impacts STIs can have only because you personally have not been bothered by them. Other people don’t have that privilege. It is import to recognize the privileges you do have even if you don’t have many.

Where is this claim I'm not worried about STIs coming from, or that I'm waving away the negative impacts? I genuinely don't know what you're talking about.

I'm very fortunate to be able to access PrEP to prevent HIV and to have clinics I can attend, but I am absolutely vulnerable to various STIs from clients and I have no idea why you imagine I wouldn't be. I offer unprotected services for a higher rate because I need the money badly, and in the UK clients are typically unwilling to use condoms for oral regardless. I get checked often and encourage everyone to do so, because untreated some STIs can have serious consequences. Syphilis is a particularly scary one to me, because there's a period after initial symptoms where it's dormant and you seem better before it is suddenly giving you severe cognitive issues.

Would help if you'd referenced whatever post or article you've gotten this interpretation from.

[chaoticace2005]

Cherri: You wanna go upstairs?

Sir Pentious: Sure...

Cherri: You have protection?

Sir Pentious: W-why? What's up there?

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canada almost wiped out syphilis. Now rates are skyrocketing — as more women, infants getting infected | CBC News

The latest federal data shows there were nearly 14,000 cases of infectious syphilis across the country in 2022, as well as 117 instances of

Just a decade ago, syphilis infections among infants were nearly eradicated in Canada. Yet there were warning signs the bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) — known for causing painless sores, organ damage, and stillborn infants — was making a comeback. First, rates started rising among adults in the early 2000s, followed by an alarming spike in congenital infections passed from mothers to their babies.  The latest federal data shows there were nearly 14,000 cases of infectious syphilis across the country in 2022, as well as 117 instances of early congenital syphilis. That's a nearly 15-fold increase from just eight nation-wide cases of syphilis reported in infants five years earlier. "When I started in clinical practice, just over 20 years ago, we'd see syphilis like every couple months," said Patrick O'Byrne, a nurse practitioner with Ottawa Public Health's sexual health clinic. "And I would say it's now daily."

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[theonion]

Sexually transmitted infections, also known as STIs or STDs, affect millions of Americans every year. The Onion debunks the many misconceptions people have about STIs.

[rapeculturerealities]

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