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When you have Herpes, HIV/AIDS, HPV, or any other STD, it can feel like you are allalone in the world. http://www.PozGroup.com is dedicated to providing the premiercommunity for anonymous STD dating, friendship and support. Here you don't have toworry about being rejected just because of something beyond your control. You canshare your struggle with new friends, partners or potential spouses who areencountering the same fears. Here you will never feel lonely again!
The founding team's vision is to build a community for people with STDs, where theycan find friendship, support, and love! When you are newly diagnosed, your wholeworld seems to have been turned upside down and inside out. There are so manyquestions that run through your mind: Did my partner know they were infected?
Maybe yes, maybe no. Many HSV (Oral and Genital Herpes), HPV (Human PapillomaVirus), and HIV infected people have no visible symptoms. Individuals may not beaware of their infection or the risk of transmission to others and of developingcomplications.
Unf ortunately, there are those who are fully aware of their condition and choose notto disclose. This is morally wrong, and in some cases, criminal. However, it happensmore than we would like to think, and makes it even harder to accept that a chronicdisease has been acquired through deception. How do you tell your family? Yourfriends? Do you tell them at all? Will they look at you differently? Will they shunyou completely?
Many people are afraid to reach out to the people whom they are closest to. You feelshame, embarrassment, fear, anger. The stigma attached to people with infectiousdiseases suddenly becomes personal, the jokes aren't so funny anymore. You areafraid of losing friendships and family altogether. This fear can quickly become areality due to a lack of education. So you retreat inside yourself, and try toovercome the overwhelming feelings that have suddenly taken over your life, alone.
Who will want me now? Will I ever find love? How do I tell a potential partner?
These are very tough questions to answer. It is hard to find love in a world whereno STDs exist between partners, some people never find it, and it certainly doesn'tget any easier when you are diagnosed with an infectious disease.
Whether you choose to continue to date uninfected people is a matter of personalchoice. If you do choose to do so, you are morally, and sometimes legally, bound todisclose your status. Do not ever take away the right of someone else to make achoice that might have life-long implications for them. Many infected people neverhad that choice, which makes the end result even more devastating. Having the Talkis never easy, and full of unknowns and even more questions.
Will they accept me? Will they keep my secret forever? Will they tell their friendsand swear them to a secret that everyone might eventually be in on? What if we breakup? Will they still keep my secret? What if they reject me? Will my secret becomepublic knowledge?
Should I limit myself to only positive partners? Being involved inhttp://www.PozGroup.com makes some aspects of dating easier for people with STD's.Your condition is known up-front, your partner can offer you support based uponpersonal experience. You don't have the worry of infecting someone that you love.
http://www.PozGroup.com is a place where you can find friendship, support, and evenlove. You won't have to worry about being rejected on the basis of your condition.No matter what kind of infectious disease you have, everyone has asked themselvesthe samequestions you have asked yourself, had the same fears of disclosure, of being alone.
On our site you can post a free profile, and send out free winks. You can becomeinvolved in the blog and forum sections, comment on a variety of subjects posted bymembers, and post your own topics. You can check the Daily Positive News for avariety of STD related subjects, send suggestions to our staff for improving thesite.
If you upgrade to Gold Member Status, there are many additional options available toyou, such as sending out an unlimited number of e mails and winks, see who hasviewed your profile, do a variety of searches including new members, and initiate aprivate chat with other members.
We have many wonderful members willing to share their stories, give advice on how tomake it through the hard times, and make you laugh. Some of us have overcome theissues, dealt with the hardships, emerged back into the light., and helping othersto follow in our footsteps. Some of us continue to struggle down that road ofunknowns. Some of us have just begun the journey. We are a community willing toreach out to others and make this journey together. Won't you join us?
