This week, The Daily Beast takes on the female condom's new marketing strategy, which has attempted to combat the prophylactic's reputation as a noisy, expensive, and awkward option (you heard it here first!). Reporter Joyce C. Tang doesn't find any regular women—women who do not work as female condom advocates—who have actually tried the unconventional [...]

Something I missed while I was on vacation—D.C. will offer STD tests to every high school student in the District this year:
the tests are administered by taking groups of 15 to 20 students at a time to the restroom area. The students are given paper bags containing urine collection cups and enter bathroom stalls. Once [...]

"Have you had sex while intoxicated?"
For yesterday's City Paper-wide "Average Day" project, I did something out of the ordinary—I got tested for HIV. Though I live in a city with an AIDS rate that rivals Sub-Saharan Africa, and write about sex for a living, I had been tested only once before, at D.C.'s Planned Parenthood. [...]