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

 

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Laureen on YouTube: http://youtube.com/laureenhd

 

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