Challenging STI Stigma: Unlearning Misconceptions from Sex Education
We are educated and socially conditioned to see STIs, and those with STIs, as dangerous others.
STIs aren’t dating death sentences, you were taught that they were.
Sex with multiple partners is possible for people with herpes, you just didn’t receive that narrative.
You can’t tell that someone has an STI just by looking at them, but your sex ed trained you to make that assumption.
It’s not your fault for how you were taught or raised, but it is negligent to take no action when confronting these inadequacies in sex ed.