Sexually Transmitted Secrets

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

STI rates are on the rise. But when we asked our listeners to tell us their stories about having an STI, what we heard about was how alone it makes you feel. This episode is part of our month-long series called Our Sex (Mis)Educations. Find the entire series here. Do you have a photo that sums up a big workplace transition for you? We want to see it! Send it to [email protected] or put it on Instagram with the hashtag #dsmatwork. See the photos we've collected so far @deathsexmoney on Instagram. Sign up for our newsletter! Every Wednesday we send out podcast listening recommendations, fascinating letters from our inbox and updates about the show. We also let our subscribers know about upcoming live events and ways you can contribute your stories to Death, Sex & Money. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Want to tell us something? Email us any time at [email protected].

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0:00.0	So the doctor initially told you that your STI wasn't a big deal.
0:04.0	Does it feel like it's been a big deal?
0:06.0	It's been such a huge deal.
0:08.0	And I still don't know to this day if it's me making it a bigger deal than it has to be.
0:15.0	This is death, sex and money.
0:21.0	You will get chlamydia and die.
0:23.7	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:26.8	Herpees is one of the better ones.
0:29.2	And need to talk about more.
0:30.9	James mom got to clap.
0:33.0	Oh, she was pissed.
0:35.0	I'm Anna Sale.
0:37.0	Mary was a senior in college when she developed a rash. I had just shaved my whole
0:45.0	crotch because that's what you do when you're in college and I wake up the
0:49.9	next morning and I have this shiny pinkish raised sort of rash all over and I thought
0:56.8	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.
1:08.0	So I don't even see a doctor. I see the nurse. She takes my blood pressure or whatever.
1:12.0	I'm like, oh by the way, I have this rash.
1:15.1	And like, I pulled my leggings down and she looked with horror.
1:19.4	And she was like, I'm going to go get the doctor.
1:22.8	The doctor told Mary, which is not her real name, that she had contracted a sexually
1:27.2	transmitted infection called Moloscombe, contagiousum.
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