STD-Positive Online-Dating Sites
Strange-but-Totally-True Trend Alert:
STD-Positive Online-Dating Sites
There are dating sites for vegetarians, Apple snobs, and CrossFitters, so why not for people with sexually transmitted diseases?
STD-positive dating sites such as H-YPE.com, PositivesDating.com, STDmatch.net, and PositiveSingles.com seek to match singles who have the same STDs. When signing up, people are asked to pick their STD from a drop-down menu. Think: I am a male, seeking a female, who also has herpes type 1, usually genital. That’s hot.
A recent Pew survey found that at least 11 percent of Americans have gone online to find “the one.” And since half of all sexually active people will have contracted at least one STD by their 25th birthday, dating by STD definitely appears to have a market. In fact, PositiveSingles.com reports gaining 100,000 new members in the past year alone. (And as both an online dater and a hypochondriac, I’m completely fine with as many STD-positive daters as possible being weeded out from my online pool.)
