In her viral 2016 TedTalk– now amassing nearly three-quarters of a million views- Ella Dawson, social media manager by day, sex writer by night and Herpes positive at both AM to PM, takes to the stage to state: “STIs aren’t a consequence, they’re inevitable”. 

The media and popular culture reduce it to the punchline of a joke. For a vast percentage of the population though, having a sexually transmitted infection is the reality

Despite a drop in diagnosed STIs in 2020 as a result of social dis...