Having to tell your date you've got herpes can be as irritating as an outbreak itself. Is dating only other people with your same sexually transmitted infection the solution? If you want to, you can, thanks to several websites that cater specifically to people with STIs. But some believe that corraling people into different dating pools based on health issues is a bad idea, as Lynn Harris reports.
Many STI sufferers are opting out of the general singles population and sticking to their own private dating pool. Or ghetto, depending on who you're talking to. "Creating specific internet-dating sites for persons with STDs tends to perpetuate stigma by separating them from the general population," says Jeffrey D. Klausner, M.D., director of STD Prevention and Control Services at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. "This isolation suggests that those persons are different and not normal, requiring exceptional means to meet other partners."
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