You've slept with HOW many people?

Hundreds. HUNDREDS.

Oh, I know you wouldn’t dream of having sex with a stranger without a condom. But what happens when they aren’t a stranger, and you’re in an exclusive relationship? You’ve only had a few lovers, and so have they, and you’ll be fine. Right?

Most of those few lovers you are both getting into bed with had had a few lovers. Somewhere along the line at least one of all of you in this crowded bed has had a charmer who has had more than a few lovers.

Move over, we need a bigger bed. Do the math. Well, you can't. You will never know how many people you are sharing with.

At least be sensible. If someone is passing through your life, keep the condoms on. If they’re going to be sticking around, get checked out before binning the protection.

The nicest and most innocent people are often the most ignorant about the subject, and will be deeply offended at the mere thought they could be infected. Try to understand - you don’t have to be promiscuous. Just have sex (including o*al sex) once with someone who once had sex with someone who was promiscuous once . Could be years ago.

The good news is, most conditions can be cured, the rest can be treated to delay, even for life, the time they turn nasty. Once you know, you can get sorted on the curable conditions, or decide whether to share your incurable ones. As far back as 2008, it was estimated over 500 million people have some form of STI. Most of those infections have virtually no warning symptoms.

That’s a lot a lot of people. And it was 7 years ago.