From Wild Nights to Wellness
Sometimes serious, sometimes funny, and always with heart
It is Thursday evening, the day was long, some series is playing on the sofa and when a hand lands on your leg, what you mostly notice is how tired you are. On a single evening that is half funny a...
The condom split last week, or your last test is so long ago you can't remember the date. Now you're sitting there working out whether to order a home test or book an appointment. The honest answer...
There are very few things that so many people look at every single day and that almost nobody ever mentions out loud. A quick glance into the loo, a flush and on with the day, even though that glan...
The result is in and it's positive. While you're still working out what it means for you, the next thought has already pushed its way in: who needs to know about this? This is where a lot of people...
You're on the sofa in the evening, answering a handful of questions about your body, and then you hit send. No waiting room, no old magazines, nobody calling your name down a corridor. And right ab...
On Saturday 12 September we had a stall of our own at the Folsom Europe street fair, right in the middle of Schöneberg, surrounded by people who had come to Berlin from all over Europe and beyond f...
Say the word PrEP in Germany and a fairly specific picture forms. Gay men, big city, scene. That's what the campaigns look like, that's how the first big trials were designed and that's what most p...
Chemsex is usually either ignored completely or talked about as a warning, and neither of those does much for someone standing in a stranger's flat on a Saturday night, deciding one way or the othe...
Your result is in and it says gonorrhoea. Or the clap. Or Neisseria gonorrhoeae, if your lab likes to be formal about it. The first reaction is usually the same: a mix of shock, shame and an urgent...
There's that moment afterwards where you're both lying awake and you're both thinking something neither of you says out loud. One of you thinks: what's wrong with me. The other thinks: is it me. An...
You have your test result. Positive. Syphilis. Maybe your stomach dropped for a second, maybe you already had a feeling. Whatever is going on inside you right now: take a deep breath. Because here ...
A self-test isn't an exam. Even so, there are a few things that regularly go wrong, and almost all of them have the same consequence: the sample can't be analysed, or the result says less than you ...