herpes witch

flirt, fire sign, feminist // i post asks anonymously

[unfriendlyhsvhottie]

you can’t have body positivity with STI shaming you can’t have sex positivity with STI shaming

[herpessupport]

This is awesome. Probably one of the most thorough and well cited articles I have read about what to do if your partner discloses they have herpes. For anyone struggling with disclosing, this is a great resource to give your partner after you do.

[herpessupport]

Bringing this back again because I feel like this is an awesome resource for people who are telling their new partners about their status

[unfriendlyhsvhottie]

How can I buy your zine?

Paypal me $3-5 at [email protected] and leave a note with your mailing address! 

[herpessupport]

I have HSV2 I got over my fear and disclosed to some dude I met. It felt great to do it, but rejection is something I have to get use to lol

I mean rejection is something we all have to get used to. Herpes or not. People can reject you for any number of reasons. Herpes is just another one!

[tutelele]

[unfriendlyhsvhottie]

The HIV League is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empower the HIV Community through scholarship, wellness, and education.

Potentially college-bound students with HIV, this is for you!! 

[unfriendlyhsvhottie]

STD Horror Movies Prey on Our Fears and Misconceptions About Sex

The micro-genre is a rare place to push prevailing myths about sexually transmitted infections to the extreme, exploring themes of promiscuity, perversion, and violation.

[unfriendlyhsvhottie]

Being wary of contracting infections is understandable; exercising caution with one’s sexual health makes sense. However, there is a particular disdain reserved for illness associated with sexuality, a certain seriousness with which it’s discussed as if to justify that disdain. I and many others would argue this comes from a longstanding belief that illness is a consequence for wrong behavior, and little in our culture is considered as sinful as wrong sexual behavior.

What Eve Ensler Gets Wrong About Herpes--And Patriarchy

[thismighthurt]

Higher Learning: Navigating Sex and Relationships in College

Woah college is a big deal! Good thing Sam Wall at hellyeahscarleteen wrote this handy dandy article to help you prepare.

[hellyeahscarleteen]

It’s back to school time! This week, we’ll be featuring articles and advice columns that deal with sex and relationships in the context of school.

[brosandprose]

Peter Thiel Funds ‘Unethical’ Offshore Herpes Vaccine Trial

The Trump adviser is part of a group of wealthy businessmen spending millions to test the vaccine on people—while evading Food and Drug Administration regulations.

I do not, and have never, supported or promoted trials pursing a herpes cure or vaccine. Many of you have asked me why, and many of you have been frustrated with me. I’ve been emailed, shamed and harassed by people involved with herpes cure and vaccine research since I went viral two years ago. But I didn’t change my mind.

Why? Because people living with herpes are extremely vulnerable to misinformation, pseudoscience and unethical scientific research. Our desperation and pain makes us fantastic targets for scams, and most of us don’t have the scientific literacy to recognize when we’re being played.

Rational Vaccines approached me more than once about working with them—I refused. Their representatives and study participants have commented on this page asking for my involvement. And now this: they downplayed safety concerns, skirted the FDA and received funding from sociopath and Trump bestie Peter Thiel.

Do not make your fear and shame make you gullible. Do not put your money or your body at risk.

[unfriendlyhsvhottie]

What Eve Ensler Gets Wrong About Herpes — And Patriarchy

Advocating for female empowerment while perpetuating STI stigma is fundamentally contradictory.

“In our collective consciousness, the worst thing about herpes is simply that it exists against your wishes; the worst thing about having herpes is being someone who has herpes in a society that tells you that having herpes is a bad, embarrassing thing. Ensler’s comparison only makes sense if you buy into the idea that herpes is as horrible as society tells you it is. And once you tease apart what about herpes is considered so awful and why it’s so despised, the resemblance begins to unravel.” 

[justice4sexworkers]

Criminalizing any activity, addictive/dangerous or not, only pushes those who take part in it further and further into the margins, and drives those who don’t want to be punished (either socially or institutionally) to secrecy and isolation. There are many complex reasons why people use drugs, either casually or consistently, and the circumstances and environmental factors which contribute to this are only exacerbated by policing and criminalization. The more isolated you are, the more at risk you are, the less likely you are to use the safest methods, or to have access to supportive resources at all. And the same is true of any war on the sex industry. The criminalization and stigmatization of sex work only contributes to the isolation and at-risk status of sex workers.

Neve Be (When Porn Complicates The Relationships Of Straight White Christian Hipsters, It’s Not Our Problem)

[unfriendlyhsvhottie]

5 Women Open Up About What Their Herpes Looks and Feels Like to Them

"My symptoms are nothing like what health class or the Internet portrays herpes to be."

Thank you to everyone who reached out to me to help with this piece! As always, there is more to say than could ever fit in a given word limit...

[nayyirahwaheed-deactivated20180]

poem. from salt. by nayyirah waheed.

[themidwifeisin]

Thank you @justinhubbell for this awesome summer body comic!!!!  What a great reminder.  <3 <3 <3

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[themidwifeisin]

It’s that time again!  Go visit @justinhubbell‘s Patreon HERE and support this awesome artist in thanks for giving us this ode to awesome bodies!

[unfriendlyhsvhottie]

I’m tempted by statistics, like how in the four years since my first herpes outbreak, none of my sexual partners have acquired the virus. Or the findings of a recent study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine that suggests consensually non-monogamous relationships correspond to greater numbers of partners but not higher rates of STIs when compared to monogamous relationships. But data doesn’t explain why I have as much of a right to sexual pleasure as anyone else. Data also doesn’t describe why people have decided to sleep with me out of love, lust, or whatever it was.

http://archermagazine.com.au/2015/12/my-own-choice-non-monogamy-and-stis/

[katherinesquier]

Nikisha with a tub of cereal, for Pansy Co