SPFPP 255: OHA Series - Sex Positive Communication

Erin is a 32 year old cis-gendered heterosexual female who uses she/her pronouns and is sex positive and new to the space of kink. She shares how her experience with HSV-2 diagnosis led her down the path of seeking sex-positive communication resources that weren’t given to her at the doctor’s office (Planned Parenthood). It took for her not only to look for the information herself, but to apply it through trial and error as well. What we learn most from this episode is that sex-positivity is more than interactions sexually with the people in our relationships, its about our relationships to ourselves. This kind of communication with ourselves is actively an anti-stigmatized approach to navigating relationships with others. A transition into sex-positivity rather than herpes support communities & dating to learn the lessons that many of us learn through trial and error. A resource is to be created in collaboration with sex positive world to bring folks with STIs into this space to learn to communicate with folks.