Through the Grapevine
“A month later, I heard through the grapevine that a girl he dealt with had herpes. I immediately panicked at the assumption that they’d probably had sex before I slept with him.”
What’s Important
“I confronted him, and of course he lied about it, but I later learned the truth from a mutual associate.”
“D”- Flowered
“I constantly preached to my friends about using condoms, and I’d had unprotected sex the first time I ever slept with someone. I felt like a hypocrite.”
The Beginning of the End
“I loved a man, I was faithful, and it still bit me in the ass.”
Learning Boundaries
“I didn’t even know how to spell chlamydia before that phone call.”
Patiently Waiting
“Her words were playing in my head like a broken record. ‘HPV will never go away. HPV has no cure.’ The links on google didn’t help. The more I read, the more dread I felt. So now, because of one potential partner, I was going to get cancer?”