So the doctor initially told you that your STI wasn't a big deal?

Does it feel like it's been a big deal?

It's been such a huge deal.

And I still don't know to this day if it's me making it a bigger deal than it has to be.

This is death, sex, and money.

You will get chlamydia and die.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

Her piece is one of the better ones.

And need to talk about more.

James' mom got to clap.

She was pissed.

I made a sale.

Mary was a senior in college when she developed She was pissed. I'm in a sale.

Mary was a senior in college when she developed a rash.

I had just shaved my whole crotch because that's what you do when you're in college.

And I wake up the next morning and I have this shiny, pinkish, raised sort of rash all over, and I thought that it was the weirdest razor burn ever. And it just so happened that I had a gynecologist appointment

that day just to get my birth control renewed. So I don't even see a doctor. I see the nurse.

She takes my blood pressure or whatever. I'm like, oh, by the way, I have this rash. And, like, I pulled my

leggings down, and she looked with horror. And she was like, I'm going to go get the doctor.

The doctor told Mary, which is not her real name, that she had contracted a sexually transmitted infection

called moloscum contagiosum. At first, Mary wasn't worried. They said it was harmless and easily

treatable. But three years of trying to freeze and burn the little bumps off haven't worked.

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