Sam Wall What does STI testing involve? How do you do it? Where? When? What do you do with your results? We answer all these questions and more to help demystify testing so you can take care of you and yours with less stress and more confidence. Getting or having a sexually transmitted infection ( STI ) isn't the end of the world most of the time for most people. But just like most of us want to avoid getting or passing on a cold, flu, or other infectious illness if we can, most folks want to avoid getting or passing on STIs. If you’ve spent any time around Scarleteen, you’ll know we remind people about STI testing often. Testing is the only reliable way to know our status in the first place, which lets us and others make our best and most fully informed decisions. STIs can only have the capacity to be no big deal if we can get them treated, learn to manage them, or let extra vulnerable people know we have them: if we don’t get tested to know we have them in the firs
