Dating Sites For STD Positive People Are Becoming More Popular

Dating Sites For STD Positive People Are Becoming More Popular

Dating sites for people who have STDS are apparently becoming more and more popular these days and while it might seem a less-stressful dating option for those with incurable STDS like HIV, it’s kinda of gross to think of those with curable STDS passing them back and forth. Ew.

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There are dating sites for vegetarians, Apple snobs, and CrossFitters, so why not for people with sexually transmitted diseases?

STD-positive dating sites such as H-YPE.com, PositivesDating.com, STDmatch.net, and PositiveSingles.com seek to match singles who have the same STDs. When signing up, people are asked to pick their STD from a drop-down menu. Think: I am a male, seeking a female, who also has herpes type 1, usually genital. That’s hot.

A recent Pew survey found that at least 11 percent of Americans have gone online to find “the one.” And since half of all sexually active people will have contracted at least one STD by their 25th birthday, dating by STD definitely appears to have a market. In fact, PositiveSingles.com reports gaining 100,000 new members in the past year alone. (And as both an online dater and a hypochondriac, I’m completely fine with as many STD-positive daters as possible being weeded out from my online pool.)

These dating sites could help. They give people an opportunity to connect with others who are in the same boat, and many offer subscribers access to counselors, support groups, and STD-treatment locations.

But even if both you and your partner have the same STD, sex isn’t a free-for-all, says Ketul Shah, M.D., assistant professor of urology at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. After all, STDs can weaken the immune system, making it easier for you to become infected with others once you have one.

On one hand, this does minimize the amount of free-clinic regulars trying to mingle in with the uninfected dating pool but on the other hand……..YUCK!! What do you think about this “trend” Bossip fam?

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