That's because the lining of the vagina is thinner and more delicate than the skin on a penis, so it's easier for bacteria and viruses to penetrate and take hold. Once there, the moist environment of the vagina is perfect for growth.
Cervical cancer can be eliminated. We must do more to prevent this deadly disease. And once the infection is acquired, it could be more severe or more damaging to a woman's health. Take herpes, for example. Another example is human papillomavirus, or HPV. It causes cervical cancer, which can be deadly unless caught early. According to the World Cancer Research Fund , cervical cancer is the eighth most common cancer in the world.
Hidden in the female experience. Yet another reason STDs are sexist : Symptoms are often more nonspecific in women, and can be mistakenly written off as a typical female annoyance. If there are any signs at all. Many men and women with STDs never have symptoms and have no idea they are infected. Harder to diagnose. The sexist nature of STDs can even follow a woman into the doctor's office. Any half-trained medical school student can diagnose it and accurately get it treated.
A woman's discharge or uncomfortable urination, however, could be due to a number of reasons, including a urinary tract infection. Doctors often need urine samples or must swab the vagina and send samples to a lab for analysis, which might take days to come back and are sometimes inconclusive. And then Sometimes, it's more than the STD that's sexist. A chlamydia vaccine shows signs of success in an early trial. Most cases ever recorded. Cases of gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis have reached the highest levels ever recorded, according to a recent report from the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
The latest numbers show youth, especially girls, are most at risk. Some of the increase in numbers may be due to new and improved tests that are more sensitive to spotting disease, as well as the testing of orifices doctors ignored in the past. Another key reason for the skyrocketing numbers is a drop in condom use. We hung out but I didn't know them super well.
We got pretty drunk and everyone started making out and heading off to bedrooms together. One guy was trying to get me to do the same. I was still a virgin and didn't want my first time to be drunk with a virtual stranger, but all my friends were doing it yes, as an adult, I realize how stupid that sounds now so I relented. Once we were in the back of his car, I chickened out but I didn't want to leave him hanging so I offered to give him a blow job.
We didn't think we needed a condom because it wasn't 'real' sex. My mom thought I had strep throat and took me in to get tested. We both were shocked when the test came back positive I didn't even think about getting an STD through oral. The doctor gave me a mega-dose of an antibiotic and a really long lecture about safe sex. She also said I was lucky that I got the sore throat because lots of people don't show symptoms of chlamydia when they're infected, and if it's untreated it can cause serious damage.
I learned a lot from that experience but the one downside was I didn't have the guts to tell any of our friend group about the diagnosis because I thought they'd think I was gross.
So who knows how many other girls he infected? So the first time I slept with Jack not his real name , I asked him before any clothes came off if he'd been tested for STDs. He said yes, and that he was percent clean. We still used a condom that time but as we got serious we decided it was fine to ditch the protection.
I had an IUD so pregnancy wasn't a risk and we knew we wanted to be together long-term so we dropped the condoms. A couple of months later I started to feel some itching and burning in my crotch and then I got a super painful bump. I got it checked out and discovered I had genital herpes. It turns out that I hadn't thought to ask him if he'd slept with anyone since his last STD test.
He'd had a one-night stand with someone off of Tinder but didn't think to tell me about it since he 'felt fine' afterwards. I'm now on medication for the rest of my life—which by the way is crazy expensive even with my insurance—and it still really pisses me off every time I think about.
I did everything 'right' but because I asked the wrong question or the right question the wrong way , I still got infected. I haven't talked to Jack since. Because of this I get regular testing for STDs, ask my partners about their statuses, and always insist on condoms.
But then one night the condom broke. It was the first time I'd slept with this particular guy and I panicked. I ran to the doctor the next day and got checked. Then a couple of months later, I got a call from a previous date who said I gave him herpes. I said it wasn't possible but I went in to get tested anyhow and this time I tested positive. My doctor told me that it's possible to test negative for herpes if there isn't an active outbreak. So now I have herpes.
I still haven't had a typical outbreak and I'm learning how to adjust my sex life around it. But the crazy part is that I found out through some other friends on the same dating site that the guy who infected me has indirectly led to over 50 infections in others and possibly even more.
Apparently his condoms 'break' a lot. Watch a hot doctor explain whether you have to treat yeast infections or not:. But then a week ago I started feeling a burning sensation when I went to the bathroom.
I figured it was a urinary tract infection as I've had quite a few of those, but my doctor ended up diagnosing me with gonorrhea. I haven't had sex with anyone other than my husband since we started dating so I know the only way I got it was from him. And honestly? I don't even really care that he's obviously cheating on me. Seeing that positive test result made me realize how done I am with this relationship. So now I'm talking to a lawyer about filing for divorce.
But I am getting my revenge: I decided not to tell him about my positive test result and let him figure out for himself that he has it and probably his girlfriend does, too. The doctor said there can be long-term side effects of untreated STDs, so hopefully he'll figure it out soon!
If not, that's his fault. Our relationship hasn't been perfect, but overall he's a really great guy and we've been very happy together.
I certainly never had any reason to think he'd been lying to me; that is until I discovered a bottle of pills in his backpack in the bottom of our closet. I didn't recognize the name so I Googled it. It was a prescription, filled that month, for herpes medication.
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