U Cn Get HIV if U Dnt Use Cndms: SexInfo
Jul 24th, 2025 by Madeline Glass
Scenario: You’re eighteen (of course you are) and just had awesome sex with your girlfriend. Oops, the condom broke, or you didn’t use one or you tossed it off halfway through. Whatever; it’s happened to lots of us. You’re not sure what to do, and scared or embarrassed or whatever to go to the health clinic and ask someone.
No worries, man. Grab your mobile phone and send a text to SexInfo (sextextsf.org), a sexual health information site for teens in San Francisco. The site was created by the advisory board of ISIS (Internet Sexuality Information Services) and funded by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. You’ll get a response on your phone or PDA (in 160 characters, duh), giving you information and instructions on minimizing risks for yourself and your partners.
Give it a go: Send the message “sexinfo” to (917) 957-4280 on San Francisco MetroPCS phones or 61827 on all other cell phones to try it. Standard text messaging rates apply.
ISIS was founded in 2001 by Deb Levine, also the founder of Columbia University’s Go Ask Alice column, in order to use emerging Internet technology to further the reach of public health resources, specifically sexual health. The organization’s mission is to “provide leadership, innovation, educational resources and research in online sexual health promotion.” ISIS’s other sites include inSPOT.org, an anonymous way for people to inform their partners of STI exposure, and STDTest.org, where people can retrieve lab results of their STI screens.
Also, can I just say, big props to the City of San Francisco for hopping on board with Deb and her projects. I read about SexInfo a while ago (I think via Violet Blue, though searches of TinyNibbles, Fleshbot and Techyum yielded no results) and thought, “How awesome and geeky: harnessing the power of teh innernets to fight injustice, infections and misinformation!”
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