Greatings,
Can we talk about some myths on sexually transmitted diseases/ infections?
I have a lot of dozens opinions on sex, how people have sex, how people talk about sex.
I get on social media and I hear a lot of people shaming people for the kind of sex they have or saying people only contract HIV because they are promiscuous, I guess people call them hoes but it’s so interesting cause we are, ” when I say WE am talking about black people, Trans Persons and Men who have sex with Men. We are often the most marginalized and we often times other people.
You can contract HIV by having sex with someone one time and it doesn’t necessarily have to be with a stranger. You can contract HIV from very many different things. I often very many times don’t want to focus on how people contract HIV because am not gonna police people in their bedrooms on how they have sex. I mean we are all humans and we all have sex, we use condoms sometimes, sometimes we don’t, some people are allergic to condoms, some people like the feel of Raw sex or condomless sex. So instead of talking about people and how they contract HIV we need to do more explaining.
Number one 
, if you HIV negative or positive you should start having honest conversations on the kind of sex you want to have with someone.
Number two, what can you do to best protect yourself?
If you are living with HIV go get enrolled in care, do the labs
, take your medication consistently and become Undetectable so that you no-longer have to transmit. A lot of people are afraid to go get tested or get treated because they fear for anybody else to know but it’s your damn life and it’s better to be in the know of your health. And another thing people living with HIV are not the only ones having sex, so putting them on pressure to disclose their status is completely insane to me.
So I oftenly tell people who are negative or presume to be, they too have a responsibility to take care of themselves. There are many options to use like condoms or PrEP e.t.c
