Marc is a 31 year old heterosexual male who’s a beginner in the Kink/BDSM community and identifies as sex positive. He joins us to share his journey of having been diagnosed with HSV-1 orally and genitally after a one night stand that consisted of receiving oral sex in another country. We discuss the road to sex-positivity through various support groups, trial and error disclosure scenarios, and learning the non-sexual components of sexual communication that we unfortunately learn out here in these sheets when we should’ve learned them before we were in these streets.

Link to resource discussed in Episode: https://youtu.be/y18AwEnYdP0

SPFPP 254: OHA Series - We Need Disclosure Education

A stigma-forward podcast exploring how shame fragments identity—and how presence heals it. Hosted by Courtney Brame, founder of SPFPP, this show began with herpes stigma and now holds space for deeper conversations around diagnosis, disclosure, masculinity, emotional wellness, and the process of becoming whole. Each episode offers reflective dialogue, identity validation, and tools to help you reconnect with your truth. If you’ve ever felt stigmatized, here's your guide back to wholeness.