How to have the STIs conversation

Life Kit

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

With Dr. Evalene Dacker, we lay out the science of STIs and then give you language to talk about them and, more broadly, about sex, with a potential partner. Because for something so fun, sex can be hard to talk about.

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0:00.0	You're listening to LifeKit from NPR.
0:06.8	Hey, everybody.
0:08.8	Mary El Segara here.
0:11.1	When I was maybe 15, my high school brought in an abstinence only sex educator.
0:17.1	I remember this school assembly, like it was yesterday.
0:20.5	She stood up there on a stage and said things like having sex before marriage is like playing
0:25.5	Russian roulette.
0:27.2	And that if you have more than one sex partner in your life, you will pay because you will
0:31.7	get an STI and in the picture she painted.
0:34.6	Your life will be over.
0:35.8	I'm not the only person who got messages like this about sex at a young age.
0:41.2	And those messages stick with us.
0:43.6	I like to say the worst STIs that we give each other are shame, guilt, and fear.
0:48.7	And we walk around without a lot.
0:50.3	We walk around with that baggage of, oh my gosh, if I have sex with more than one person
0:55.3	in my life, then there is this thing that's going to give me the shame.
0:59.5	And if I ever come back with something positive, then that's going to mark me as being something
1:04.8	that is not desirable.
1:06.7	That's Evelyn Dacker, a family physician in Oregon who teaches people how to talk about
1:11.0	STIs and sexuality.
1:13.8	And look, there are risks to having sex.
1:16.0	STIs exist and we're going to talk about them in this episode.
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