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• New on Nerve, 2.26.08: Searching for Normal

  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." Read more here.  Posted Feb 26 2008, 01:35 PM by Will Doig with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: dispatch, Lynn Harris, online dating, std, stds, stis

• New on Nerve, 1.28.08: Love Rollercoaster

  Nerve reporter Justin Clark, who climbed a pyramid on the set of American Gladiators for us earlier this month, today tackles the more sobering subject of dating someone who has bipolar disorder. Our relationship became defined by obsessive routine, something that might normally have made me feel antsy and restless. But because Sara clung to the structure so fervently, I followed her lead. I began to drop off the social map. The parameters of our life together drew further and further inward, until we were living in a tiny, airtight box created by the quirks of her disorder. I became not only her enabler, but her progeny as well. Read the rest here.  Posted Jan 28 2008, 11:12 AM by Will Doig with | with no comments Filed under: dispatch, Justin Clark, bipolar

• From the Archives: "You got to remember to glitter your pussy”

  In 2001 Michelle Tea took us behind the scenes on the set of an all-female lesbian porn shoot. "A crew member clutching bottles of lube stumbles around the debris, poking through piles of feather-trimmed costumes in search of an elusive pack of Pixie Sticks needed for the next scene, in which the reformed, born-again street-preaching Honeydew (Shar), catches a whiff of sugar coming off Officer Blue and his sugar 'ho Cherry Glaze (Josephine X). Honeydew has what those in Narcotics Anonymous would call a "slip." Cut to a wild candy threesome to be filmed atop a satin-covered massage table in a room down the hall."   Posted Oct 09 2007, 05:00 PM by Sarah with | with no comments Filed under: porn, lesbians, archives, Michelle Tea, dispatch