To all the young people with STD questions?!

To all the young people with STD questions?

I can tell that many of you are very young, and probably scared and embarrassed. You can't go to your parents and you don't know where to go to get answers for these types of questions. You should know that you should be very critical of anything you read on this site. This is not the place to come if you need serious answers. I am a registered nurse and I have been visiting this site for the past few days. I am stunned at the rediculousness of so many answers. There are a few who are obivously eduacted in medicine or health care. Some people who have had experiences with STDs can give good insight and support, but for the most part, the answerers are grossly misinformed. If you don't know enough about STDs to decifer the truth from fiction you should take these answers with a grain of salt. I would suggest going to this website by planned parenthood: http://www.teenwire.com/. It has easy to understand information about all the STDs.

2 weeks ago
You can also call planned parenthood and talk to an informed nurse and find out what your options are.

I agree. You really don't know who is giving you information on this website. I'd never mislead anyone about my credentials and experience, but the same cannot be said of all participants.

I always give TeenWire a thumbs up in terms of quality. There are other great websites like Scarleteen http://www.scarleteen.com and GoAskAlice http://goaskalice.columbia.edu that also pride themselves on offering inclusive and accurate information for teens and young adults..