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Before You Swipe Right: The Dirty Truth About STIs, UTIs & Modern Dating · The Diva Details

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  Welcome to the Diva Details. Welcome to the Diva Details.
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  Just fearless conversations to help you thrive. Let's dive in with Diva Mia and Diva Cat.
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  Well hello diva cat how are you
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  today good today you are yes well
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  today is shining well the sun is shining it's
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  nice and warm out so let's get down and dirty
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  and talk about something that nobody wants to talk about but everybody should
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  okay you ready let's talk about stds although now everybody refers them to as
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  sti infection instead of yeah yeah sexually transmitted disease versus STIs,
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  which is sexually transmitted infection.
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  I think it's a nicer way of saying the same thing.
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  STDs, though, it's interesting because they've been around for a very long time
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  and you can actually die from them.
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  But is it curable, though? Some are curable. Some are curable.
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  Some are not. But it's very contagious.
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  They are very contagious. And you can contract an STD even without having sex.
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  Really? I thought it was just through sexual... No.
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  Nope. We're going to go through that today. You can get a sexual transmitted
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  disease without sex. You can get a sexually transmitted disease from eating food.
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  Really? Yes. There's hepatitis that can be transmitted through sex or from food. It's bodily fluid.
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  So there are diseases that you can get. You can get sexually transmitted diseases
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  from kissing. Remember mono?
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  Oh man, everybody had that in high school. I know. That was rough.
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  You kiss somebody and then you're knocked out for two weeks with mono.
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  That was a kissing disease. The kissing disease.
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  So there are kissing diseases you I can get you can get herpes simplex one from
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  kissing where people get cold sore. That's very common.
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  Like 90 percent of the U.S. population has that. So if you may not think you
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  have an STD, but you do because you have a cold sore.
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  So that's another type of it. That is. But you can get herpes simplex one down there as well.
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  And type two that I did not know about. That's one thing I learned.
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  So let's dive in. OK, I know it's going to get a little rough. OK.
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  There's different STDs and there's different causes. You can get some from viruses.
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  You can get some from bacteria. Okay. And it can cause a lot of problems.
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  One of the first signs is it burns when you urinate. Now, some people,
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  it's not an STD. It's a urinary tract infection. Right.
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  And UTIs are caused by bacteria and like E. coli.
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  And us women in our 40s, 50s, and 60s are more prone to getting UTIs.
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  I don't know why. Yeah, I don't know why. But I will say that I've gotten a
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  lot of UTIs in my older age.
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  And if you have a lot of different partners, I think your body has to get used
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  to whatever bacteria is on them as well.
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  But the number one way to not get a UTI is the minute you get done having sex,
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  you get up and go to the bathroom.
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  And if you can, shower. But get that bacteria off you as soon as possible and try to prevent a UTI.
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  You can also take cranberry and things like that. There's different pills you
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  can take prior to sex to prevent a UTI. But it becomes a major problem.
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  Well, I think, but as you get older, you get it regularly. I know my mother gets it a lot.
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  Does she get it a lot? Does she get sex a lot?
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  Is that what I'm saying? And I know she does not get any sex.
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  Okay, so UTIs are caused by bacteria.
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  So what they do to treat them is sometimes they have a cream,
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  but most of the time they give an oral antibiotic.
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  And that messes up your gut biome. Now, UTIs are not sexually transmitted diseases.
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  I want to be clear on that. But you get it a lot from sex. Yeah.
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  But you can also get them from other things, too.
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  So it's it's about bleation down there. It's about constantly cleansing down
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  there and not holding it when you need to go to the bathroom.
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  Yeah, I think that's the part. Don't fall asleep after you have sex.
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  After you have sex, make sure you go and pee. And guys do it.
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  Guys go pee. And guys can get UTIs, too, ladies. It's not just women.
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  Men can get you a urinary tract because it's a urinary tract.
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  So a urinary tract, it burns.
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  And you can even pee blood if it gets bad because it'll. infect your kidneys.
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  It can be death. You can die from a urinary tract infection, and people have.
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  Yeah, yeah. So don't let it go. You might have a frequent urge to go to the
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  bathroom over and over again.
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  You get cloudy urine from it. That's when it starts to get really bad is when
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  the urine starts to cloud or you get blood in your urine.
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  And they just diagnose it from a simple urine culture. You can go to any minute
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  clinic and get a diagnosis.
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  So a urinary tract infection is probably one of the easier things to cure. But I will say...
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  I've had a lot of them. And if the guy's larger, ladies, you're much more likely to get one.
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  So if a guy is on the larger scale, as far as dick size goes,
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  you are more likely to get a urinary tract infection.
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  And if it's a guy, you can get them at any time. So men need to go to the bathroom
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  afterwards as well because there's just bacteria down there.
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  It's caused by E. coli. We have E. coli down there.
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  You just, when you're having sex, you're pushing the E.
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  Coli basically up the urinary area, the
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  sphincter for men or the female area and it
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  gets pushed up in there and then it breeds and then
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  if it goes too high up then you're gonna get a kidney infection wow
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  and the kidney infection can actually lead to death so this
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  is dangerous there was a woman i knew that she got it from oral sex and she
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  said this guy was so amazing at oral sex it was so great and she's like i just
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  had it over and over again she went into a clinic and they said oh it's probably
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  nothing you probably just they didn't even do it they didn't even do a culture
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  they said it's probably nothing you're Probably just, you know,
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  urinating due to menopause or something. They brushed her off.
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  So then she went back. She had a friend that was a doctor. And she asked him,
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  he's like, you come in right away. So they went in and she had a kidney infection.
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  The urinary tract infection had migrated. So she had a full-on kidney infection.
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  She could have died. Yeah.
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  And that's why when you have a problem peeing and it burns, you need to go to
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  the doctor right away, ladies and gentlemen.
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  I know when mom has it and knocked her out for six months.
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  She was in the hospital for six months. With a urinary tract infection.
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  Because you waited too long. Yeah, she probably got septic. Yeah.
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  It affects all her organs. Knees. Yeah, it goes right inside there.
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  It's a nasty E. coli infection.
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  I mean, if you were throwing up, you'd go to the doctor, right?
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  You could die from that, yeah. Yeah, if you had food poisoning and you were
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  puking, you would go to the doctor.
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  But yet, for some reason, when people urinate and it hurts and it burns, they don't go.
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  Yeah, I don't know why. Yeah. Now, there are some things you can take...
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  There's a lot more now than there was. There's a thing that's called DeFen that
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  you can take that you take before you have sex.
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  That makes sure that any bacteria that helps it flush it out,
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  basically. There's Cranstat.
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  There's cranberry juice. There's natural things you can take to avoid it.
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  And if I know I'm going to have sex, I absolutely take it for two or three days before.
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  And then I don't have a problem usually. But I will say if the guy's on the
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  larger side and I don't pee right away, I will get a UTI. It's almost a guarantee.
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  Wow. Yeah. That's dandruff. I know.
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  So once you get diagnosed, there's treatment.
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  They're going to make you drink a lot of water. Water helps flush it out.
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  You're going to have to pee a lot. Then you have to take antibiotics.
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  And the problem with the antibiotics is it's going to mess up your full gut biome.
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  So remember that every time you go on antibiotics, you're messing up your gut
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  biome and you're going to have to rebuild it.
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  And you never rebuild it fully the same way because once some bacteria are gone, they don't come back.
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  Our gut biome is nowhere as nearly as good as it is when we were kids.
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  And the problem is, is when our gut biome goes, so does our immune system.
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  I see. So you want to keep a healthy gut biome to prevent cancer.
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  You want to keep a healthy gut biome to prevent all kinds of diseases.
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  I mean, part of autoimmune is your gut biome has been compromised,
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  too. When you rebuild your gut biome, it helps with your autoimmune.
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  When you rebuild your gut biome, you keep away colds, et cetera.
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  So if you have a weak gut biome, you're going to have more colds.
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  You're going to be sick more often. You're going to be more susceptible to flus,
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  to viruses, to bacteria.
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  So keep that gut biome strong. The other thing is, besides peeing often,
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  you have to wipe from front to back. We all know that.
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  All women that are our age know that. And then just stay hydrated.
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  So, you know, pee right after, wipe from front to back, hydrate.
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  And I say, I always recommend people take a quick shower if they can.
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  But UTIs are different from STDs, but they mimic some of the same symptoms because
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  a lot of times you don't know if it's an STD or urinary tract infection.
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  Because a lot of times when you pee, it burns when you have an STD. Wow.
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  Yeah. So you have to be careful with that. And then the other thing is,
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  I'm going to touch on this, is the yeast infections women get.
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  So what will happen is if you get a UTI, you go on an antibiotic that knocks
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  out the UTI, and now all of a sudden you have a yeast infection.
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  Because the antibiotics will mess up with your uterine flora,
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  which oftentimes will lead to yeast infections.
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  Oh, wow. So if you're prone to yeast infections, you've got a whole cycle.
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  You have sex once, and now you've got to go on antibiotics for seven days.
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  Then you have to have a yeast.
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  You're on a yeast infection stuff for three to five days, and it's rough.
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  So remember, sex is a privilege. It's not a right, but you need to have sex
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  responsibly, and it comes down to STDs as well.
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  The STDs. You were just on vacation in Miami. Yeah.
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  It's a big billboard right outside the airport. Get tested for free.
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  It's like STDDZ.org, something like that.
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  Well, Miami, I bet, has a lot of STDs. Have you seen that billboard everywhere
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  you go around town in Miami?
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  That's probably because they're having a problem with STDs. It's a major problem.
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  Everybody's having sex with everyone right now. It's a party town?
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  It's a party town, and STDs are on the rise, not on the decline.
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  Ever since COVID, they've been on the rise. People are like,
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  I'm getting out of this house, and now they're like, I'm going to have sex with whoever I want.
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  So there's a lot of problems with STDs. And even when the people say,
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  oh, I just want one person, I'm sorry, ladies, men lie.
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  I've learned that the hard way. Men lie and they lie a lot.
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  And they may say they're only you're the only one and they're only sleeping
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  with you. And then they've slept with other people. So be careful.
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  Protect yourself. So let's start with chlamydia.
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  What is that? So chlamydia is a bacterial infection and it's it's silent,
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  but you get a discharge and the discharge a woman gets.
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  It can cause pain. Now, a lot of guys don't know they have it until later because
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  the discharge doesn't happen right away from it, but they can get a discharge to.
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  Men do. Yeah, it's a bacterial thing. So it like comes out the top of their penis heads.
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  It's a urine test or a swab, but a lot of guys may never get any symptoms.
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  And so they're passing around chlamydia everywhere. Long term,
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  it can infect your fertility.
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  It can lead to what's called pelvic inflammatory disease, which is an inflammation
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  of the pelvic area, which is painful. And you treat it with antibiotics.
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  So people with chlamydia, you know, another amount of antibiotics.
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  So again, then you might get a yeast infection and then you might have to rebuild
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  your gut flora. So just realize that chlamydia is a big one out there.
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  It's big. And then there's gonorrhea.
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  And gonorrhea is burning.
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  So this you may think is actually a UTI. And with that one, you get a discharge.
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  You can also get a sore throat because a lot of people get gonorrhea of the
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  mouth and throat from giving oral sex.
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  You see this a lot in older people homes when they have swinging groups.
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  They'll just pass around the gonorrhea because it takes a while.
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  They're not as sensitive down there, so they may not feel the burning as quickly.
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  So the whole area will have gonorrhea. Oh, my God. This is an antibiotic thing, too.
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  But there are drug-resistant strains now because they've used antibiotics so
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  much on gonorrhea that the antibiotics aren't working as well as they used to.
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  So you've got to be careful. This is a urine test. And long term,
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  it's going to hurt your joints and cause infertility.
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  Like people in their older ages, they don't really care about the infertility,
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  but their joints are going to have a problem.
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  They probably already have a joint problem. They're in there. Yeah.
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  So you have to be careful with some of these diseases because they can lead
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  to major problems over time. You know what I mean?
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  They're just crazy. People, when they don't get tested, they just spread it around.
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  I honestly think if you're sexually active, you should get tested between every sexual partner.
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  And if you can, if not, at least get tested every quarterly so you know what's going on.
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  But I don't see how many people you're sleeping with in a quarter, you know. Yeah. So-
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  Yeah, there's so many different diseases. And then there's, you know, syphilis.
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  What is that? So syphilis is sores. So you'll see this.
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  Like a sore popping out of your lips? Like blisterous kind of sores.
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  Yeah, it can also cause organ damage and death. The blister?
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  No, yeah, syphilis. So it's sores. It can be a rash. That's how it shows up.
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  And then it can lead to organ damage if it's not treated.
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  This one's a blood test. And it can also lead to brain, heart.
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  It can even lead to blindness. I think you heard a lot about this in the older
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  times. People would get syphilis and they would die from it.
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  Causes brain diseases, but it's treatable with penicillin.
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  So it's another bacteria-related STD. But I'm allergic to penicillin.
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  I'm sure they have something. They probably have something else.
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  But penicillin is the number one treatment for syphilis.
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  So if anybody ever gets syphilis, luckily I haven't had any of these diseases,
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  so I'm very happy about that. You better be careful.
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  I know, but it's crazy out there. And so that's why before you go on the date,
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  you need to get more blood during the date. All right. So now we're going to
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  get into the rougher ones.
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  So those are the ones that are bacteria related.
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  All the bacteria runs from the UTI. Well, the UTI is not a STD, but you can treat UTIs.
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  You can treat yeast infections. You can treat chlamydia, gonorrhea,
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  and syphilis with antibiotics.
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  So those three are treated with antibiotics, those three STDs.
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  And now we're going to get into the viral STDs.
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  Now these, the viruses aren't treatable. I mean, they're treatable,
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  but they're not curable right now. And I say right now because there are things that are coming about.
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  But the first one is herpes. So SHSV-1 is recognized with cold sores.
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  Now, if you get somebody tested and they have HSV-1, realize that about 90%
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  of the population has SHV-1.
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  I was always very particular about not kissing someone with a cold sore.
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  Have you ever had cold sores? So you're one of the.
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  10% of the country that doesn't. And your husband probably doesn't have them
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  either. And therefore, your children don't. Yeah.
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  I think it's pimple, you know, surprisingly. Yeah. Make sure you don't kiss
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  your child or your child will have them. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, they're not fun.
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  I mean, you can put stuff on them. I think the natural cures are actually better
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  than some of the pharmaceuticals.
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  I put garlic, just put a cut of garlic clove and put it on it and it dies off really quick.
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  So that also keeps the virus down. But some people get cold sores all the time.
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  I know my ex would get them all the time.
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  So it depends on your immune system and how. And isn't it what they eat,
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  though, make you feel hot inside? That's what we believe.
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  Well, that's kind of an acupuncturist belief system, too, right?
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  I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I don't know why they get flare-ups,
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  but some people get flare-ups more often than others.
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  I was very cautious around him. I never wanted to get a cold sore.
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  But it's not that big of a deal.
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  But I could see it being a big deal with some people. And you don't want to
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  kiss somebody with a cold sore because now you have it.
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  And if you have a cold sore, you don't want to go down on someone because you
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  can spread HSV to their private parts and you don't want to do that because
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  then they'll have cold sores down there and you don't want to do that.
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  HSV2, which is herpes simplex virus 2. So this is herpes, herpes simplex virus 2.
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  That's the one we think of when we think of herpes in the genital areas.
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  So they can be blisters, outbreaks.
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  It can create a lifelong infection where they're having blisters every so often.
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  Some women have them right after or right before a period.
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  I was in college and the reason I learned all about herpes was actually in college
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  and my suite mate we had suites like and one of my suite mates she was dating
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  a guy and she ended up cheating on him one night stand with some other guy and
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  she ended up getting herpes now she had been dating this other guy that you know since high school
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  Wow. And that was the love of her life. But she ended up having an affair.
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  And so her roommates came to my room and said, they said, Mia, what do we do?
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  And I said, OK, calm down, because I'm always the good one in the crisis.
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  I was like, calm down. Let's work through this. OK. So I called the school nurse
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  because I didn't know anything about it.
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  And they're like, are we going to catch it from the toilet seat? Actually, you can.
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  It's not likely, but you can. And so that's why when people use public toilet
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  seats, a lot of times they put the paper down.
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  It's only likely if they had an open sore or something like that.
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  But yes, it is possible. She said it's possible, but very unlikely.
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  Because as long as it's been, you know, exposed to the air within a few minutes, it dies off.
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  So she's like, it's not likely you're going to catch it. But if you want to
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  disinfect your toilet seat before you use it, you can.
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  And so they were freaking out. But then they treated her differently after she got it.
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  And they treated her like she was a pariah. She ended up leaving college because
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  she got herpes. She left college. She went back.
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  Luckily, the guy that she had was her boyfriend took her back.
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  But she has to live with it for the rest of her life. So whenever she has a
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  flare-up, she can't have sex with it.
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  So it never goes away? Never goes away. It may decrease over time.
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  Wow. That's terrible. Yeah, it's one of the nastier STDs.
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  So it's stuck with you for life. It's stuck with you for life. And there's no cure.
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  And there should be. Honestly, we have so many antivirals. I don't know why
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  they haven't put money into this.
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  They have treatments to decrease. I think there's a pill like an antiviral you
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  can take to decrease the length of it once you have it. But no, people still get it.
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  Maybe the percentage is so low. That's why they don't put effort.
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  No, there's a lot of people with HSV.
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  Now, probably not as many as HSV-1. But the thing is, is if they cure HSV-1,
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  it's probably the same cure for HSV-2 or very close.
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  And sometimes the virus just dissipates that it never shows up in your bloodstream
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  anymore. If it gets so low and so weak. I don't know.
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  I don't know if people have outbreaks for type 2 down there forever. I don't know.
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  But it's... This is all news to me. HSV-1, HSV-2 is definitely nasty.
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  HSV-1 is not fun, but it's not as bad as HSV-2. And so, yeah,
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  you just have to be careful.
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  Then we get into human...
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  Palomavirus. HPV is what most people call it because they can't pronounce it like me.
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  And it's a very, very common STD and people don't know they have it.
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  And it actually causes genital warts and people don't realize it.
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  They think it's just like a skin tab or something and it's actually a genital wart.
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  That's what HPV is. And they do this through a pap smear.
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  So whenever you're going for a pap smear, they almost always test for HPV.
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  So you'll know if you have a pap smear. For men, they actually have to,
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  it's more, it's a more invasive test.
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  I don't know exactly what they do for men, but it's more invasive.
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  So a lot of men don't get tested for this.
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  There's an HPV DNA test.
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  And, you know, you can prevent HPV with a vaccine because if you get HPV,
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  it's linked to cervical cancer, which one of my friends has.
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  And she got it from, she recently got HPV and she has cervical cancer now.
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  They ended up recommending a hysterectomy. Sometimes they'll freeze off the
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  cancer when it's cervical cancer. And sometimes they recommend a hysterectomy. It just depends.
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  But HPV will lead to cervical cancer. So a lot of people, women and men, have gotten HPV.
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  I'm not a big believer in the vaccines for it because it's not as effective as they say it is.
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  So some people get the vaccines. If you want to get the vaccine, you can.
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  And that will hopefully prevent HPV, but it's no guarantee.
• 19:14
  I get all the vaccine. I'm in the series of getting a shingle too right now.
• 19:18
  Yeah, you're Miss Vaccine. I'm Miss Anti. Yeah.
• 19:22
  So HPV is a big one. And HPV, because of cancer, it can lead to death.
• 19:27
  Hmm. So you have to be careful. And even syphilis. If you don't treat syphilis, you can die.
• 19:32
  So, yeah, gonorrhea and chlamydia, they're not comfortable. But you don't treat
• 19:37
  syphilis, you're dead. And that's a bacterial infection, right?
• 19:40
  So these STDs that people don't talk about, even though we should,
• 19:44
  they can kill you. Herpes is uncomfortable.
• 19:46
  You know, I really think that they're going to have a cure for herpes pretty
• 19:49
  soon. I think that's one. But HPV, I don't know if they will.
• 19:52
  The vaccine is something. And then there's HIV. Now, we thought HIV came up,
• 19:57
  came about probably about 35 plus years ago.
• 20:00
  35, 40 years ago was when HIV came onto the radar.
• 20:03
  HIV is the virus that leads to AIDS and it attacks your immune system, your CD4 cells.
• 20:09
  It's diagnosed through a blood test. HIV was big when we were growing up.
• 20:14
  Remember, it was mostly among gay men, but it was starting to break into more
• 20:19
  heterosexual and people that did drug use. It came from gay men because there's
• 20:23
  a lot of blood with anal sex abuse.
• 20:25
  You're sharing needles. You're sharing needles, and it goes right into your
• 20:28
  blood. So HIV was a big one when we were growing up. I swear I thought it would be cured by now.
• 20:33
  To me, it's a little ridiculous they haven't cured it, but they've got really
• 20:36
  good treatments and the antiviral therapy that they have, but it's so expensive.
• 20:41
  It's so expensive. The treatments are, if you leave it untreated,
• 20:45
  it turns into AIDS and you die a miserable death.
• 20:47
  If you take the antiretroviral things or the antiviral things that they give
• 20:52
  you, I think it's called ART or antiretroviral therapy or whatever, those are expensive.
• 20:58
  And it's crazy that people have to do that. I think that's why there's no cure.
• 21:02
  Because it's so expensive to pay the pharmaceuticals for the antivirals that
• 21:09
  I don't even know if they're even working on a cure anymore.
• 21:11
  So anyway, to prevent it, you need to use condoms.
• 21:14
  You just need to use condoms. And you need to not share needles.
• 21:18
  If you're a drug user, don't share needles. And if the condom doesn't break, you should be okay.
• 21:22
  You're not going to catch HIV from kissing someone, which was a fear before.
• 21:26
  But you are going to, it's a blood on blood contact.
• 21:29
  So if there's any blood and a lot of times rough sex or sex with,
• 21:33
  you know, women can get it for men.
• 21:35
  There's any rough sex. And a lot of times women, we bleed down there and don't even realize it.
• 21:39
  If it gets a little rough sex, I mean, you're going to bleed.
• 21:41
  Or if you do anal sex, you're going to bleed. So.
• 21:44
  Realize you can catch HIV and AIDS. I haven't heard a lot about it lately, though.
• 21:48
  So if you're having sex and this is not a partner that's your partner forever,
• 21:53
  I highly recommend. I mean, if you're married, it's different.
• 21:56
  Although I was terrified when I found out my ex was cheating on me.
• 22:00
  I was like, did I catch something?
• 22:01
  The first thing I did is I went and got an STD test. I said,
• 22:05
  test me for everything because I was terrified.
• 22:08
  Because you never know, you think your partner is just with you.
• 22:11
  And then you find out that they're cheating.
• 22:13
  So if you're dating someone, you better make sure it's a damn committed relationship
• 22:17
  and you guys are the only two sleeping together because they could go out and
• 22:20
  catch something and bring it back to you.
• 22:22
  Scary. That's true. So you have to be careful. And then there's hepatitis.
• 22:27
  So anybody that has a liver condition, you need to be afraid of hepatitis.
• 22:30
  Now, hepatitis is not good for anyone, honestly, because it's going to cause liver problems.
• 22:35
  It spreads sexually via blood. So hepatitis or from saliva.
• 22:40
  And hepatitis can even be spread from restaurants. You hear about hepatitis A outbreaks. Yes.
• 22:45
  So hepatitis B and C, though, are spread via blood and sexually.
• 22:49
  And it can cause liver damage.
• 22:51
  Hepatitis A, B, and C all cause liver damage.
• 22:54
  And they're diagnosed from blood tests. So the viruses are pretty much diagnosed
• 22:57
  from blood tests, right?
• 22:59
  Bacterial ones are diagnosed from pap smears, typically.
• 23:03
  Whereas, so once you get diagnosed, they check you for antibodies.
• 23:07
  And I I get checked for this often to make sure nobody's giving me hepatitis.
• 23:11
  Because if you have any liver conditions at all, it's going to lead to a quicker death.
• 23:16
  You can get a vaccine for hepatitis B, but that's the only one that they have.
• 23:20
  And there are treatments that you can do kind of like with HIV.
• 23:23
  But once you have hepatitis, you have hepatitis.
• 23:26
  And it will lead to liver cancer. It leads to chronic liver disease and then death.
• 23:31
  Yeah. So the reason why I wanted to bring this up today is because people don't
• 23:35
  realize sex is a big commitment. And I think people are sleeping around so much
• 23:40
  that they think, oh, it's just sex.
• 23:42
  Oh, it's just sex. It's not. It could be life-altering, life-changing.
• 23:46
  So just realize you think that sex is we're just going to go out and have fun,
• 23:50
  but it can really quickly not be fun. You could die from it. You can die from it.
• 23:55
  Or you can have lifelong impacts, like if you've got herpes type 2 where you're
• 23:59
  now having blisters, you know? So be careful.
• 24:02
  Yeah, be careful who you sleep with. Wear condoms, guys.
• 24:05
  Wear condoms. because condoms will protect you from most of the viral ones,
• 24:10
  which are the ones that kill you, right?
• 24:11
  Although if you have HP or herpes, I mean, if they have open sores,
• 24:16
  this is the other person why I like to like check out the merchandise down there
• 24:20
  before I actually, because if you see open sores, you're going to have to be careful with that.
• 24:24
  And then now we're going to talk about parasites and fungal infections that
• 24:29
  are spread through STD sexually transmitted as well. Did you know that?
• 24:33
  Oh, wow. Yeah. So this is a big one lately, and I don't know what the percentage
• 24:37
  is, but I keep hearing it.
• 24:38
  Trichomyosis. Parasite. All right. So it's called trichomyosis.
• 24:43
  That's the way to pronounce it. It's a parasite. It leaves a frothy discharge
• 24:47
  and leaves a fishy odor for a woman.
• 24:50
  And 2% of women have it and like half a percent of men.
• 24:55
  But it's a parasite and it's sexually transmitted. It's diagnosed via a swab.
• 24:59
  They have to swab inside the penis tip for a man, and they have to swab inside a woman.
• 25:03
  And it's treated with metronidazole. It's an antifungal, antiparasite drug.
• 25:09
  So there's parasites that can get transmitted via, get transmitted via sex as well. That's crazy.
• 25:16
  Yeah. And then there's scabies. What is that? Cubic lice.
• 25:20
  So you get lice, but down there, I don't think this is big
• 25:23
  anymore because everybody's everybody get
• 25:26
  the laser treatment yeah i i think that the scabies
• 25:29
  is less because everybody's getting the the treatments
• 25:32
  but now you have lice in your head yeah lice
• 25:36
  is lice is a big one so scabies is considered
• 25:39
  a parasite and it it causes itching rash and it gets diagnosed by just a physical
• 25:45
  exam it's a lice check and it's treated with topical meds just like in your
• 25:48
  hair you just shave it all out no well they could shave it down there but then
• 25:52
  they they they still treat it so So it can cause... It's nasty. It causes a rash, too.
• 25:58
  There's a thing called laser treatment. For scabies?
• 26:01
  Laser hair removal, so you don't have to deal with it. Oh, that's what I've
• 26:04
  done, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't have it here down there. But if you have hair,
• 26:07
  you can get scabies. And I mean...
• 26:09
  Some people have just a little bit of hair and you can get scabies.
• 26:12
  So be careful with that. It's not as popular.
• 26:14
  It's not as big as it used to be, but it is there. And it is a parasite.
• 26:18
  It's more common in little children, you can get it.
• 26:21
  And then yeast infection is a fungal infection. And it's not always STD related, but it can be.
• 26:27
  Can get it from sex. So if they have a yeast overgrowth on the man,
• 26:31
  there's an odor down there on the ladies.
• 26:34
  And you'll get a thick discharge. It's very itchy and it's treated with antifungals again.
• 26:39
  So you have to realize that antifungals, antibiotics, antivirals,
• 26:43
  all these things are there to treat. But the best is prevention.
• 26:46
  You can go to your primary care provider. I also recommend that if you're a
• 26:49
  woman and you're sexually active, that you get a full litany of STD tests every
• 26:54
  year when you go for your pap smear.
• 26:56
  That's a bare minimum. In Miami, it's big billboards say free.
• 26:59
  Free, yeah. So go for your free STD test because it's deadly. It can be deadly.
• 27:04
  Sometimes it's just an HIV test, a blood test or something like that.
• 27:08
  Blood tests are easy. It's not easy to catch it early enough, I think.
• 27:11
  If you're embarrassed, you can order your own STD tests. And there are health
• 27:15
  testing sites online where you put in an order and then they go to like a LabCorp
• 27:20
  or a Quest or one of those types of STD places and they get tested.
• 27:23
  Now, make sure you see those results. Don't trust somebody's word.
• 27:27
  You know what? I don't know you well enough to trust you. Right.
• 27:30
  Get the STD tests done ahead of time before you have sex with them.
• 27:34
  And then, you know, donating blood. Some people think does donating blood test
• 27:37
  for STDs. Well, yes and no, because they test for HIV, hepatitis,
• 27:42
  and syphilis, but it's not a substitute for STD screening because they're not
• 27:46
  going to test for chlamydia. They're not going to test for gonorrhea.
• 27:49
  They're not going to test for a lot of the bacterial infection.
• 27:52
  They're not testing for those. So a blood test will test for HIV,
• 27:56
  hepatitis, to make sure that, you know, there's no, they're not crossing that
• 28:00
  over into the blood barrier for people.
• 28:02
  They're not, you know, giving it, but that's it. So I actually had a guy tell
• 28:06
  me that I just got my blood tested so I'm clean. I'm like, no, you're not.
• 28:10
  I said, no, just because you've given blood, just because you give blood doesn't mean you're STD free.
• 28:16
  You have to go and do an STD test. And you need to be tested for all those other things. You have to.
• 28:21
  So if you're not getting fully tested, why are you sleeping with somebody? Right.
• 28:25
  Because they may very well have something else. They need a full STD screening
• 28:29
  every single time you have a new partner. Right.
• 28:31
  And honestly, if we all did this, we could slow down the whole let's go have sex thing.
• 28:36
  Come back into who we are as people in our minds and our souls.
• 28:40
  We get people tested. STDs would stop. If we could all just do this for a year,
• 28:44
  everybody stop screwing around for a year.
• 28:47
  Everybody get everybody sleep tested. It would almost eliminate all the STDs.
• 28:51
  And the problem is, is that people aren't doing it.
• 28:53
  And right now there's an evolution of people just sleeping around again.
• 28:56
  I'm sure it's high up because to me to see the big billboard and they say free.
• 29:00
  Yeah, because the dating apps make it easy, right?
• 29:03
  You go, you find somebody, they look nice. I'm going to pick them up.
• 29:06
  I'm going to go sleep with them. I don't want to date them.
• 29:07
  And I move on to the next. So those types of things, it's causing STDs to run rampant again.
• 29:13
  Yeah. So younger people, I think, are more prone to it.
• 29:16
  But anybody that has more than one partner is prone to it. And if you're not
• 29:19
  consistent with condom use, so I get everybody I sleep with tested.
• 29:23
  Because if I'm going to be intimate with them and we're not going to use condoms,
• 29:26
  I need to know that they're clean.
• 29:28
  It's a nice way to make sure. If you don't know anything about them and you
• 29:32
  don't know if they have any STDs, you better have a condom on.
• 29:34
  That's the bare minimum.
• 29:35
  And you can still catch stuff, even with a condom. That's what people don't
• 29:38
  realize. You can still catch it.
• 29:40
  Scary. And most people, when women go down, they're not using a condom.
• 29:43
  Men, you can catch something as well. If you go down on a woman,
• 29:47
  there's no condom involved.
• 29:48
  That's true. So you can catch something.
• 29:50
  So realize you could catch HSV2 in your mouth from going down on a woman.
• 29:54
  You can get gonorrhea from going down on a woman. And you may not know it because
• 29:58
  it might be in the early stages.
• 30:00
  Yeah. You may not know. They may not have any signs or symptoms.
• 30:03
  You just have to protect yourself.
• 30:05
  Protect yourself. So realize that if you, and both sides should be tested.
• 30:10
  The woman should be tested. The man should be tested. and you should share results
• 30:13
  with each other. Because you can get STDs vaginally, anally.
• 30:17
  People don't realize you can get it from anal sex, oral sex, skin to skin.
• 30:21
  Just touching someone. How about share the plates? Sharing plates?
• 30:25
  Well, there are, like, yes, you could potentially get HSV-1 if somebody's saliva
• 30:29
  was on the plate, potentially.
• 30:31
  I mean, there's stuff, but it's less likely. Not bad. Nobody's going to touch my food.
• 30:34
  Like when a mom has HSV on her lips and she kisses her baby,
• 30:38
  she can give it to her baby. Yeah.
• 30:40
  So, yes, kissing someone can lead to it as well. So, kissing,
• 30:44
  shared needles, those types of things, and that's just basic human-to-human
• 30:47
  contact. So if you're in close contact with somebody who has an STD,
• 30:50
  you have to be extra careful.
• 30:52
  The best prevention is condoms, internal, externally, and internally.
• 30:55
  If you're giving somebody a head, if you want to give somebody a head,
• 30:58
  you can do it with a condom on. I've never done that, but I guess it's done. You can get vaccines.
• 31:03
  You can get HPV vaccine. You can get hepatitis B vaccine. That's about it.
• 31:06
  There's no other vaccines.
• 31:07
  And then limit how many partners you have and get regularly tested with the one you do have.
• 31:12
  If they have an STD, I'm not saying you can't have sex with them.
• 31:15
  I'm just saying you better be damn careful.
• 31:17
  I feel so bad about dating, you guys dating at this day and age.
• 31:21
  I know, it's crazy, right? It's crazy.
• 31:23
  Oh, my God. The thing is, is it was like that before.
• 31:26
  Was it? We just didn't know about it. Because there was no internet.
• 31:29
  People didn't know it. Yeah, and there's no dating app.
• 31:32
  Then we got to talk about the stigma. Once you get a diagnosis,
• 31:35
  if you tell your partner, I have herpes 2.
• 31:39
  I don't think there's much stigma around herpes 1, honestly.
• 31:41
  Many people have herpes one and it's not it's not like you get it unless you're
• 31:45
  you're not really given it unless you have a cold sore. You can't get it through sex.
• 31:50
  Right. So it's herpes two you have to be worried about. But if somebody says,
• 31:53
  hey, I have herpes simplex two, you tell your partner it's less likely you're
• 31:58
  going to want to have sex with him. I did get a guy tested.
• 32:00
  And he had it and I didn't have sex with him. I know it's a stigma. I don't want it.
• 32:04
  I don't want, that would be terrible for me.
• 32:07
  So I didn't have sex with a guy once I got him tested and knew.
• 32:11
  It may be dormant on him. He may not have it right now, but there is a stigma.
• 32:14
  When you get these STDs, you get this stigma.
• 32:18
  You may only be having sex with people that have the same STDs as you.
• 32:21
  You've just limited your dating pool. It is crazy.
• 32:25
  From herpes standpoint, right?
• 32:28
  Herpes, HSV1, about 90% of adults have, okay?
• 32:32
  But HSV2, 16% of adults between 14 and 49 is where they get the stats from.
• 32:40
  16% have HSV2. That's a lot. One in every eight partners is going to have herpes too. Yeah.
• 32:46
  So if you get it, honestly, you're going to limit who wants to have sex with you after that.
• 32:51
  Because I won't have sex with somebody that's got herpes too.
• 32:54
  Herpes one, as long as they don't have an active culture, I don't really care.
• 32:57
  I'm just thinking about my teenagers right now.
• 32:59
  Ah, teenagers for sure, because they're the ones that pass it around the most.
• 33:03
  But it's good teeth in person. Bees, condoms out there, and hopefully.
• 33:07
  Globally, 800 million people have it. That's what I'm saying.
• 33:10
  Just worry about the teenagers. Yep. Media, 2% of the young population have it.
• 33:15
  And in women under 25, 14.6% of the women under 25 have it. But 2% of the U.S. population.
• 33:22
  So 15%. So, again, one in every seven or eight people has chlamydia, guys. That's crazy.
• 33:29
  Isn't that crazy? Or has had it. Chlamydia is curable. So they have had it.
• 33:32
  So, you know, that's a lot. Globally, 450 million people currently have chlamydia. Currently.
• 33:39
  Gonorrhea is less. So 2.4 million cases in the United States have gonorrhea. So it's less. About 1%.
• 33:47
  So gonorrhea, not so much. 45 million people.
• 33:51
  That's worldwide. 45 million people. They don't have any stats U.S.-wise.
• 33:55
  So syphilis is not as pronounced in the U.S. I think syphilis is,
• 33:59
  you get such a reaction on syphilis, I think people probably get it treated
• 34:02
  right away so they're less likely to spread it.
• 34:04
  HIV and AIDS, it's down to 36.7 million people. It's not as prevalent as it
• 34:09
  used to be. And that's worldwide.
• 34:11
  Wow. So HIV, AIDS tends to be, it looks like it's kind of dying off.
• 34:16
  Because it's replaced with the new disease.
• 34:18
  Yeah. And then TRIC, the fungus slash parasite, I think, was it a fungus or was it a parasite?
• 34:24
  I think the TRIC was, yeah, TRIC is a parasite. So TRIC, actually,
• 34:28
  there's 3% of the U.S. population that has it.
• 34:31
  So there's a lot of people with TRIC and you don't even realize it.
• 34:33
  It's a fungus and it's 3% of the global population as well. So now that one's curable as well.
• 34:39
  So there's a lot of people that have it. So once you have it.
• 34:43
  Right you're gonna have a stigma know it till like they flare up they may not
• 34:48
  know it until there's a flare-up yes with herpes 2 you don't know it till there's
• 34:52
  a flare-up hell with herpes 1 you don't know it till there's a flare-up and
• 34:56
  then and actually herpes 1 tends to be the one that goes away yeah so herpes 1 90% of the U.S.
• 35:02
  Population has that but I mean the fact that 13% have herpes 2 that's scary
• 35:06
  that is crazy yeah and so if you have herpes 2 I'm not having sex with you.
• 35:11
  So I've just eliminated another 20% or 13% of the U.S. population.
• 35:16
  I'm not having sex with them. If somebody has HIV, I'm not having sex with them.
• 35:19
  If somebody has hepatitis, I'm not having sex with them.
• 35:22
  If somebody has HPV, I'm not having sex with them.
• 35:24
  No. I'm not even going to risk it. What happens then, guys, is that if we're
• 35:29
  responsible and we get tested, you test your partner and your partner has some
• 35:32
  of these things, you know, you should get them tested early before you start
• 35:35
  dating them for six months.
• 35:36
  Because if you're, you don't have to get tested and assume you're going to have
• 35:40
  sex the next time you get together.
• 35:41
  But get them tested because you may develop a relationship and then never want to have sex with them.
• 35:46
  So remember that because there is such a stigma around it. And for me,
• 35:49
  I'm not going to risk it. I'm not having sex with somebody that has hepatitis. There's no way.
• 35:53
  No. So you need to disclose to your partner.
• 35:55
  It's a requirement. In fact, it's illegal to have AIDS and sleep with somebody
• 36:00
  and not wear a condom and give them AIDS.
• 36:02
  You have to put disclosure, yes. You have to disclose.
• 36:05
  So you could actually be prosecuted for that. And they can sue you financially
• 36:09
  as well, because you're actually causing someone a disease intentionally.
• 36:13
  I actually saw that on Judge Judy. Yes. Yeah. So you better make sure you disclose it.
• 36:17
  I don't know what the law number is, but it is illegal to do that.
• 36:20
  And they can sue you for money as well.
• 36:22
  Yeah. If you give them herpes, they can sue your ass. Because it's a permanent disease, guys.
• 36:28
  Right? It's not something that goes away. Yeah.
• 36:31
  Realize there's support groups for all these things and mental health groups.
• 36:34
  So just work with that, too. If you've got it, work through it.
• 36:37
  But you're probably going to
• 36:39
  be limited to the people that have the same disease as you in the future.
• 36:42
  Because if you have herpes too and they have herpes too, as long as neither
• 36:45
  one of you have a flare-up, you're not going to infect the person right away.
• 36:47
  But if it crosses over, it's okay. If you have AIDS, you might have just sex
• 36:50
  with people that have AIDS.
• 36:52
  But don't, don't, not to go have sex with people who clean.
• 36:55
  Yeah, do not have sex with people because they, that don't have it.
• 36:57
  Because if you cause them the disease and you spread it, then you're likely to get sued.
• 37:01
  Yeah, I told you, I saw until Judy, one episode. Yeah, so it's,
• 37:05
  it's a thing. So just realize the CDC is a place to go get information.
• 37:09
  You can see pictures out there, too. That's the nice thing.
• 37:12
  You can Google it. Men and women both get UTIs. Men and women get all these different diseases.
• 37:17
  And sometimes you need a blood test. Sometimes you need a swab.
• 37:20
  Sometimes you need a urine sample. You may have to do all these things when you go and get tested.
• 37:24
  I think the biggest thing is just to make sure you're safe. Yeah,
• 37:28
  globally, 536 million people have herpes number two. So that's a lot. That's a lot.
• 37:35
  That's a lot. HPV, 800 million. So that's even worse.
• 37:39
  We've got to take care of each other and be respectful to each other because
• 37:43
  you don't want to be spreading any of this around.
• 37:45
  The fact that it's gotten this big, that's a lot of people to be spreading diseases
• 37:49
  around. They're just being careless, you know? Yep.
• 37:52
  That makes it hard for people who are single and want to date out there and
• 37:56
  having sex with them. Yes.
• 37:58
  So they did a study in 2018. I don't see a more recent study.
• 38:03
  67.6 million people have current active STI infections.
• 38:09
  Yeah. Every year, 26.2 million people, and this is in the U.S.,
• 38:13
  get diagnosed with an STD.
• 38:14
  Now, I don't know how many of those are HSV-1. The little ones.
• 38:18
  But yeah, you can have chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis. Those things get diagnosed 2.4 million every year.
• 38:24
  That's a lot. So basically 1% of the U.S. population every year is getting diagnosed with that.
• 38:29
  So just realize 1 to 2% is what it says. Yeah.
• 38:32
  Just realize that you have responsibilities to your partner when you have an... Be respectful.
• 38:39
  Be respectful. You could lose... You could go to jail. You could get prosecuted.
• 38:43
  You can get fined when you have sex. If you have something and you don't tell the other person.
• 38:49
  Yeah. Overall, one in five Americans is currently living with an STD.
• 38:55
  One in five. One in five, that's high. In the U.S. right now has an STD.
• 39:00
  That's very behind the front. And this does not include HSV-1.
• 39:04
  And they don't know about it or do they know about it? They have it.
• 39:07
  So it's whether it's herpes-2, HIV.
• 39:09
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So one in five or syphilis, gonorrhea, one in five,
• 39:13
  non-herpes-1, because herpes-1 is not really considered a sexually transmitted disease anymore.
• 39:18
  One in five Americans has it right now. That's good.
• 39:21
  So that means, yeah. So you're out there dating someone on a dating app and
• 39:26
  one in five chance of catching something from them.
• 39:29
  That's that's really high, guys. If you're out there and you're sleeping around,
• 39:33
  you have sex with five people, you caught something statistically.
• 39:37
  Yeah. So realize that if you're not using condoms and you're sleeping around,
• 39:41
  you've had sex with somebody that has an STD.
• 39:44
  So I don't feel so bad anymore about asking people to get tested every time
• 39:48
  because now that I know that stat, one in five Americans has an STD right now.
• 39:53
  Yeah, because people being careless, they don't care. That's huge. Yeah.
• 39:58
  One in five people. One in five. That's a lot. And some of them may have gotten
• 40:02
  it before, like HIV or herpes, and have had it for a while and don't realize
• 40:06
  it. But this is not herpes.
• 40:08
  This is not a cold source. This is the serious STDs. The serious one. So one in five.
• 40:12
  If you are one of the one in five and I go sleep with you, I have a chance of
• 40:15
  catching whatever you had. That is crazy.
• 40:18
  Yeah. There are some bacterias. There are some fungus that stick with people,
• 40:21
  too. So people live with this stuff. That is crazy.
• 40:25
  And they don't even know it. Then there's probably people that have more than one. What happens then?
• 40:29
  I don't know. Yeah, you have chlamydia and gonorrhea. I mean,
• 40:32
  you can have more than one STD at a time.
• 40:34
  It's not like it says, oh, you're already hit. We don't have to touch you.
• 40:38
  Or you have HIV. I'm not going to give you gonorrhea.
• 40:40
  No, you can have multiple things at one time and be spreading it around.
• 40:44
  So when you ever have a partner, I think it's just kind of a rule.
• 40:48
  Come on, people. We're in our 40s, 50s, and 60s.
• 40:51
  If you're not asking people to get tested, shame on you.
• 40:55
  Yeah, you should confront each other, you know? This is kind of a podcast I
• 40:59
  wish people would share with their kids that are going into college.
• 41:03
  I'm worried about my teenagers. Yeah, because if they're going into college
• 41:07
  and they're sleeping around.
• 41:08
  See, I didn't sleep around a lot in college either. I was always in a relationship.
• 41:12
  So I never had the one night stand. So I think I avoided some of this drama.
• 41:17
  Like that girl, she was in college and she got herpes too from.
• 41:22
  Yeah, and now she's stuck for life. And now she's stuck for life.
• 41:25
  And I feel sorry for her. It changed her whole life. She dropped out of college,
• 41:28
  guys, because of the stigma.
• 41:31
  She ended up marrying that guy,
• 41:33
  I heard. Yeah, she ended up marrying that guy, I heard. He didn't care.
• 41:36
  He was that. I wanted to marry a person that cheated on me, contracted herpes
• 41:41
  to, and then brought it back to the family. You know what I mean? There's no way.
• 41:45
  That is real love. I'm not saying you can't date people that have STDs.
• 41:50
  You just need to be aware of it and thoroughly do the work. And,
• 41:54
  like, for me, there's no way I'm dating anybody with hepatitis. Thank you.
• 41:57
  Because I have some liver issues. So there's just no way.
• 42:01
  But some people might say, oh, it's okay. We'll just, we'll use protection and
• 42:04
  we'll be safe and we'll get treated and try to knock out things.
• 42:09
  It's, everybody gets to choose.
• 42:12
  Everybody gets to make a choice if they want to put themselves at risk with these things.
• 42:16
  Now, if they have syphilis, just get it treated. If they have gonorrhea,
• 42:19
  acclaminate, just go get it treated.
• 42:21
  Once it's treated, it's not showing up on your blood work anymore.
• 42:24
  It's not showing up in your urines. It's a urine sample, I believe, for that.
• 42:27
  It's not showing up anymore. Once it's treated, it's gone.
• 42:30
  So those types of things are completely gone once they're treated.
• 42:33
  But the other things, if you still have them, you have to be careful because
• 42:37
  you can transmit them forever.
• 42:40
  That's scary. I do hope with some of the technologies today,
• 42:43
  they will come up with vaccines soon to treat and just eradicate some of these.
• 42:47
  They have vaccines for everything else.
• 42:48
  They have a lot of different vaccines. So I'm hoping that they start to eradicate
• 42:52
  some of this stuff. And they can.
• 42:54
  I mean, they will. But right now it's still an issue until our civilization
• 42:58
  evolves to the fact that there are no more STDs, which I don't know if it ever
• 43:01
  will, because you're always going to have certain people that don't get tested.
• 43:05
  Until that evolution occurs, just protect yourself.
• 43:08
  Be careful. Be safe. Don't put yourself in situations that could turn volatile
• 43:13
  and that could end up killing you from a disease from a one night stand.
• 43:18
  Come on. Think about it. Ladies, we're worth more than that.
• 43:21
  We shouldn't be sleeping around having one night stands and then dying from
• 43:23
  it. Men aren't worth that. Women aren't worth that to the men.
• 43:27
  Not one nice dance, anyway. No. If you want to be in a relationship with somebody
• 43:30
  with an STD, that's your call.
• 43:33
  Just make sure you're aware of how to protect yourself. Yeah.
• 43:36
  Because we only have one body.
• 43:37
  That's it. And when kids are involved, you still have to take care of your kids.
• 43:41
  This is a good episode for people whose kids are about to go off to college. Yeah.
• 43:45
  Because when it goes to college, I mean, it's a free-for-all.
• 43:48
  Yeah. Any kid that starts their sexual activities.
• 43:53
  In their high school years. Yeah. Yeah. That's crazy. I know. Very.
• 43:58
  And ladies, again, if you get UTIs, make sure you go to potty.
• 44:01
  Go potty right after go potty right
• 44:04
  after you have sex and and try to make some cramp take some
• 44:07
  cranberry juice and stuff like that before scary it
• 44:10
  is scary i mean it's all it all leads to problems so we're here to help uh if
• 44:15
  you need information please reach us out we can direct you in the right directions
• 44:18
  we're not doctors but we did want to bring an awareness to the world out there
• 44:23
  as to why there's such a need for everyone to get std tested often you have
• 44:27
  to be aware you You've got to be aware.
• 44:29
  And no, guys, the guys out there that keep telling me they give blood and that's
• 44:33
  enough, it's not enough. Because that doesn't mean you don't have syphilis,
• 44:35
  chlamydia, or gonorrhea.
• 44:37
  Yeah, it's not enough. No, give blood, it doesn't mean you get tested.
• 44:40
  Giving blood doesn't test for everything. It only tests for,
• 44:43
  like, the main extreme ones. Right.
• 44:45
  Like HPV and HIV and stuff like that. All right. Well, I think we've covered
• 44:49
  everything we needed to about the gross subject of STDs.
• 44:52
  But it is a fact of life, and we do need to know about it. It's something you
• 44:56
  don't want to talk about, but you've got to. You've got to. You got to.
• 44:59
  Yes. Well, this is Diva Mia signing off. You have a wonderful day.
• 45:03
  This is Diva Kat. Good luck to all the teenagers who are going to start having
• 45:07
  sexual activities. Remember, protect yourself.
• 45:10
  Protection is key. Yep. Take care. Take care. Bye-bye.
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