I have never shared this before on PC or anywhere, and only a few people in my life know about this, including my boyfriend.

I was also a little promisuous in my early 20's. I lost my virginity at 21 and then when that relationship ended, I started having sex with a lot of my guy friends. I never did take a perfect stranger home, but I did sleep with guys I didn't know all that well.

I do have an STD now. Its not curable. It was the hardest thing I had to tell my boyfriend when we first started dating. I take medication for it, but we will always have to use a condom. We'd like to have a child down the road, and I often wonder how we're going to safely make that happen.

You can even get an STD just from oral sex.....thats how my doctor thinks I got mine. I have herpes type 1 which is the oral type, but its down below. Who knows how I contracted it. I always practiced safe sex when it came to intercourse, always used a condom. And I still got it.

HPV is also another STD that I haven't had, but had a close friend who did. Men carry it and usually don't show symptoms. HPV causes cervical cancer and can kill.

I wish now that I had been more careful back in the day, but I was young and crazy and living on my own and thought it was the thing to do. I'm grateful I didn't get HIV or Hepatitis.....but I did get a disease that will be with me until I die.

I can't believe I have finally shared this here. All these years at PC and I've never shared this. But if it can help one woman or man be extra careful with their sexual tendencies, so be it.