Monday, October 20, 2008

'STD postcards: You've got mail — and more'

"Early data shows it helps to have partners break bad news online." Full story here.

Thanks to a new Internet-based service called inSPOT, people are now receiving anonymous e-mails about sex, but they aren’t spam and there is no hidden ad for herbal concoctions to increase the size of anything. Rather, the “e-cards” are notices from a previous sex partner that the recipient may have been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease.

The site, www.InSPOT.org , is a way for people newly diagnosed with an STD to notify their partners to be tested, too. The e-cards, a sort of greeting card you’d rather not receive, are direct and to the point. . . .

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm reading this and it's a good thing to tell people anyway you can at the same time I'm listening to cbc radio show where a man slept with 17 women without telling them he was HIV 2 of them past since due to illness related to HIV and canada want to revise the law and charge the man with murder, in this case I think they should, the man knew he had the HIV