Sensual Revisit: The STI in stigma (with Laureen HD)
Description
Ari interviews YouTuber, Sex Educator, and STI Awareness Advocate, Laureen HD • (she/her). Laureen shares how she went from keeping her genital herpes diagnosis a secret to becoming an advocate for living a sex-positive lifestyle with incurable STIs on YouTube.
Editor's Note: this is a sensual revisit from episode 19 in honor of our ~Sexual Health Series~ more interviews out soon!
Burning Questions in this episode:
- how to disclose STI status with care and even humor
- relearning how to date after a positive diagnosis
- why stigma is the worst symptom of (incurable) STIs
- how she remains sex-positive and shame-free 8 years after HSV-2 contraction
Laureen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laureenhd/
Laureen on YouTube: http://youtube.com/laureenhd
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