SPFPP Episode 177: Reality Does Not Anchor Assumptions

Split with partner and feels like now she’s single and realizes she now HAS to deal with this DURING the pandemic 2 weeks before lockdown happened Lives in New Zealand Conversations “In here” vs conversations “Out there” Being boundariless makes us conform to the boundaries of others or lack thereof Understand what’s yours and what’s your partners’ Covid conversations parallel STI conversations “Is this person worth getting COVID from?” Assumptions have no anchor in reality Stigma makes this diagnosis troubling because we’re not connected to it until we’re connected to it. Misinformation from credible sources “Just wear condoms” “Don’t have sex during outbreaks” Well my Doctor said . . . Dr resistance to testing due to the trauma of a possible positive result Connecting people to accurate, consistent information is a challenge against all the misinformation The world’s worst herpes joke at 35 minutes lol. This is awful ya’ll. I mean really bad. The tickling analogy from Melissa Carnagey of Sex Positive Families how consent violating kids grow to consent violating adults Sexual Health and Mental health are interconnected. The skeleton of body autonomy and “no” serve as the skeleton of sexual health conversations