Herpes, Two Years Later: On Sex Without Condoms
Can you have sex without condoms if you have genital herpes?
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5 rules for better herpes journalism: or, I wrote about dating for Women’s Health!
I learned quickly after getting diagnosed with genital herpes that no one writes about having an STI. There are no memoirs about herpes. There are no academic studies about the literature of herpetic authors. There is a gigantic gaping hole on the Internet where herpes blogging should be, other than the herpes support community on Tumblr (which, […]
Read MoreThe Herpes Interviews: that wrestler I dated
When I discovered April was STD awareness month, I immediately knew I wanted to do a series on my blog to celebrate it. After all, I am a human lady person living with genital herpes, and the fun of publicly decimating STD stigma has yet to wear off (if it ever will). But what do people […]
Read MoreBachelorella Recap Week 7: Deal breakers (Iowa vs. Playboy)
The Bachelor franchise graced us with five hours of television this week, thanks to back-to-back episodes on Sunday and Monday nights. This is far too much Bachelor for me to process. In a nutshell: Britt continued to be super fake, Carly ratted her out to Chris, and when provoked Britt self-destructed in an “I need […]
Read MoreBachelorella Recap Week 2: Widows and virgins and whores, Oh my!
This week’s episode of The Bachelor was very hard to watch. I’m not talking “guilty pleasure, why am I watching this don’t you DARE touch the remote, mom” hard to watch. I’m talking painful, uncomfortable, over-edited and genuinely difficult to watch. I found myself getting up to make a snack, refill my Diet Coke, and […]
Read MoreSenior week and wescam: Why we need #adultsexedmonth
The week before graduation at Wesleyan is referred to as “senior week.” When an underclassmen, senior week is the stuff of legend: a crazy final week of last minute hookups, road trips, alcohol-infused decision making, and out of control partying culminating in a gigantic party under a tent on the baseball field. Making senior week […]
Read MoreBook Review: Flying High, Sexy Stories From The Mile High Club
The looks I got reading this mid-flight were an added bonus.
Read More#humblebrag, I’m this week’s WesCeleb
This past weekend I was interviewed for The Wesleyan Argus by a friend of mine, the illustrious Gabe Rosenberg, about my time at Wesleyan and the work I’ve done with Unlocked Magazine. Unlocked is Wes’s student-run art and sexuality magazine, and over the past three years I revived it, re-staffed it, and published some incredible […]
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