these are just excuses to relieve the blame against the perpetrator in the first place. He’s the one who should have taken responsibility before and after the transmission. It’s not hard to get an STD test before sex, and certainly not harder to get one afterward.

She also says she believed she was in a monogamous relationship. And seriously everyone here, raise your hand if you have never ever even once had sex without a condom. In a relationship you were told was monogamous and the guy said he was tested regularly. My hands will stay firmly planted at my sides because lots of…

Man are you kidding me with this sexist bullshit in these comments? Let’s all agree it is stupid to have unprotected sex with someone who has lied to you in the past about their sexual health/practices and given you an STI - it is CLEARLY fucking stupid - I don’t think anyone is denying that. But how is it not…

I mean, having unprotected sex with someone you’re not in a monogamous relationship with is probably a bad idea (though you may think you’re monogamous with someone and they’re lying, that shit happens all the time). But if he knew he fucking had chlamydia, he should have told her and not engaged in that unprotected…

insuring an unknown risk with a giant cost (lifetime of medical issues) is not something the insurance industry tends to do really well. Schools are already strapped for cash...it will go to clubs and eventually die.

Everyone boxed knowing the risks. Their parents knew too.

when every insurance company pulls their insurance from every high school and college...the NFL is going to have some issues.

nah. there’s a big reason why the NFL refuses to do that, and it has a lot to do with the fact the owners are old enough that they remember back when boxing was a real sport instead of one fight a year anyone pays attention to.

Everybody say it with me now!

Oh, how the NFL wishes CTE was just former players being butt-hurt instead of head-hurt.

Here's a good analogy. Let's say in the 80s, you made every gay man stay home inside their house for 30 days after each time they had anal sex. If they said no, you locked them up. Now, the AIDS epidemic was a much bigger deal here stateside, and undoubtedly people were transmitting the HIV virus during its incubation…

Yeah, I feel like if the people who’s actual job is dealing with infectious diseases give someone the all clear, that should be the final word. Otherwise why consult them in the first place? Just attribute everything to witches and be done with it.

Half the commenters basically turned on a dime into anti-vaxxers. Oh, medical science says it’s safe? WHO’S PAYING THEM TO SAY THAT? WHAT KIND OF AN IDIOT TRUSTS DOCTORS WHEN IT COMES TO THE PROPERTIES OF DISEASES?!

I find it interesting that she got so much hate despite not ever testing positive for Ebola and basically not wanting to be held against her will with a portable toilet. But the doctor who was infected with Ebola, was all over the city after his return from Africa and not much hate was directed his way.

Man, siding with Chris Christie over a nurse who works with Ebola patients in Africa. That’s...bold.

It takes a really special kind of person to look at someone who did legitimately risk her life to help others and be like “Nope. Dun like it.”

I’m even willing to forgive the eyebrows. She’s a BAMF.

Why? Really? She's a health care worker who treats a suffering population on another continent. She took necessary precautions, her organization (which has more medical experience than Christie and probably than you) says she was never a risk or exposed, she was tested to verify this, and even if she were somehow in…

My problems with this aren’t about the nudity because of “OH GOD NAKED PEOPLE” reasons, they are purely logistical. Is the venue providing lockers to store clothes?? Or is everyone just expected to bring a backpack or whatever? AND if I can’t slip my credit card and ID into my pocket, I guess that means I have to take…

Great article. Women’s health is still a very understudied field unfortunately. My experience with the pill was from ages 15-21; I started having sex around the same period I first took the pill, so it’s not until after I decided to stop taking it that I realized my libido was naturally higher and cyclical than I…