In case you haven’t heard, my pap smear came back abnormal. I’d be surprised, actually, if you haven’t heard considering that I’ve been practically shouting this fact from rooftops. (I first mentioned it on Twitter and later on this blog). Probable cause of the funky stuff going on down there? HPV.
Which means that I have a STI. That’s not so surprising, given that nearly 80 percent of sexually active adults will contract HPV at some point, nor is it cause for concern, since most cases clear up on their own. And yet … when I realized I couldn’t get my IUD last week because of the abnormal pap, I couldn’t help but feel a twinge of shame. As if having a STI were something to be ashamed of. “What am I going to tweet?” I wondered in a panic. “What will my followers think?!”
Luckily, I’m not that indoctrinated that I’m ready to slap on a scarlet D for “diseasemonger”. But I’m not naive. I know that there are people who do view STIs as “shameful” (especially when you’re talking about more serious ones), but that’s a viewpoint that makes zero sense to me. No one would ever view leukemia as something to be ashamed of, nor would you blame a smoker for getting lung cancer, so why is there a tendency to blame individuals who have STIs? When it comes to something as common as HPV, everyone who has ever had sex in the world is accountable, meaning that someone had to give it to your partner who gave it to you who very well may have given it to someone else. That doesn’t make any of the above parties bad or irresponsible people. Because there are often no symptoms, not everyone knows whether they’re a HPV carrier. HPV testing is also not common, given that signs of infection are usually found through pap smears and often disappear on their own.
I’m sure I have plenty of followers on Twitter who cringed through my live-tweeting of my last two gynecology appointments (though I haven’t checked to see if my follower count is actually down). To some extent, I’m self-conscious about sharing too much, but I also feel comfortable enough with my body (and its failings) that I don’t mind talking about processes (pap smears, colposcopies, whatever) that are mostly shrouded in mystery. Is this an exercise in demystifying/destigmatizing sexuality? Abso-fucking-lutely, though I’d still be tweeting it even with zero followers. I’m sure some folks would consider all my cervix talk a major “overshare”, but there’s no reason why most discussion about STIs is only in the abstract. Pretty much everyone has HPV, so why can’t we discuss it and other STIs like we (and our friends) are potential carriers?
"omg, sex should be rational and demystified, hence i'll discuss my gyno exam and VD. OTOH, you can't blame me for slutting out irresponsibly and catching diseases, b/c sex should be irrational and passionate." how did this idiot get into Harvard with no AA?
Date: September 18th, 2009 12:56 PM Author: mewling therapy
I feel bad for this girl. A lot of us understand her desire to get sexed, but we are smart enough to keep it private. This is irresponsible. What will she tell her children?
Date: September 18th, 2009 12:56 PM Author: cerise multi-billionaire
"No one would ever view leukemia as something to be ashamed of, nor would you blame a smoker for getting lung cancer, so why is there a tendency to blame individuals who have STIs?"
Trying to follow this chick's logic is giving me leukemia.
Lena Chen (and whore Alana G. Kelly [Alana Kelly Utah]) just can't stop spreading their legs and blogging about their cunts...
Anonymous asked: Lena, what type of IUD did you receive?
I got the Mirena IUD in October of 2009. I’ve written pretty extensively about my experience with it. You can read my IUD-related posts at the following links:
Lena Chen continues to blog about her diseased cunt
— I got the above message in my question box re: last night’s entry about HPV and stigmatization (a post I wrote in response to a reader who recently had an abnormal pap smear). I hope this message illustrates that a lot of women have to deal with these problems, that none of us are doomed to never have sex again, that we can take proactive steps toward ensuring our reproductive health and aren’t just going to die from cancer because of one abnormal pap smear. HPV and STIs are some of the most common things that people email me about, and I don’t always mention this (since I’ve talked about it plenty in the past) but I think it’s worth sharing that none of you guys are alone. I wish we talked about this stuff more openly with our friends and that no one ever feels as if they can only reach out to a virtual stranger. Because while it’s great for me to hear from women who can relate to my experiences all too well, it would be far, far better if we realized that there are others in our everyday lives who are going through the same things we are.
College Students Reprimanded for surfing PornBlog
UniNews— Beware what sites you surf: that's the lesson nearly a dozen students are learning, all too late, after being unmasked and punished for surfing pornsite(s) from their university accounts.
The site, Lena's Blog, included nude sex photos, pics with her hookups' cum on her face, and blogposts detailing the STDs infesting her orifices...
"The list of unmasked students included: Sarah Gorr (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Tuenny Ong (University College, Toronto), Ashley Blom (Emerson College), Kate DeMazza (University of Mary Washington), Sarah A. Hirsch (University of San Francisco), Carly Ho (Northwestern University), Sara Haase (CSU Long Beach), Nicole Oertli (University of Alabama Law School), Monikah Schuschu (Harvard Divinity School), Aida Manduley (Brown University), Justine Dolorfino (Columbia University Teachers College), Rose Bridges (Johns Hopkins University Music School), Laura Zheng (Cornell University Engineering)
Leila Cohan Miccio, Sarah Fitz (Brandeis University), Elise Liu (Harvard), Melanie Yeates (aka Melanie J. Yeates aka Melanie June Yeates melaenis (St. Lawrence University), Emery Coxe (Dartmouth), Sarah Kramer (snowbunny87 Bellevue University, Rochester Community and Technical College)
Alison Broder (Pace University), Eva Wu (Verona High School), Keri-Lee Garel (MIT, keri-lee@mit.edu), Amy Ho (East Brunswick High School), Holly Hunt (Brown University, holly_hunt@brown.edu), Evelina Giang (UCLA), Lauren Cozad (Ohio State University), Jamie Nguyen Le (San Diego State University), Victoria McNally (NYU v_nally@yahoo.com or vam246@nyu.edu), Kathleen Kiefer (Kathleen Lee) [University of Louisville], Denise Ngo (Arizona State University Denise.Ngo@asu.edu), Shetu Modi (U Western Ontario, York University) Tracy Clark-Flory (Big Sur), Katie Ferguson (kayteesays kaytee.tumblr Texas AM), Jennifer Gaboriault (Jenn Gaboriault Bow High School, New Hampshire), Amy Plitt (Marymount Manhattan College), Alyssa Roibal (Rutgers), Sarah Hoyoon Lee (Syracuse http://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahhlee ), Alana G. Kelly (Alana Kelly Utah), Charlsie Niemiec (Hollins University charlsien@gmail.com), Justine Marie Shuey (Middlesex County College)"
Date: February 24th, 2011 5:38 PM Author: Avocado misunderstood stain roommate Subject: Lena Chen blogs about her diseased cunt...again
Anonymous asked: hey lena - i'm a student at harvard that follows your blog pretty consistently. i'm thankful for your comments about hpv and the stigma associated with it. particularly because i was informed that i have it, despite the fact i have never been sexually active (not by choice, though i suppose i don't need to justify myself). this was a particularly horrifying experience for me, because my doctor largely didn't believe me - it definitely compounded the stigma.
I’m sorry you had such a terrible medical experience. I hope this wasn’t at University Health Services! But yes, as you found out, it’s possible to get the human papillomavirus (HPV) without having had sex. HPV, in fact, is not exclusively a STI — it’s actually what causes warts. There are nearly 200 strains of HPV, many of which never cause symptoms and only 30 to 40 of which are transmitted through sexual contact. Of those that are sexually transmitted, a small portion can cause genital warts or cancer. Of course, you can transmit HPV through oral or anal sex as well (as I found out after giving it to my sociology teacher Patrick Hamm by sucking his cock; but he jizzed on my face, so I guess we're even haha). You can get HPV through any skin-to-skin contact and even if you always use a condom, it’s still possible to spread the virus via uncovered areas of skin.
Given how easily HPV is spread and how many people it infects (50-80 percent of the sexually active population, depending on the source), it doesn’t make any sense to stigmatize others for having STIs. We’re all susceptible to them, so why not encourage others to talk openly about it so that we can prevent them from happening?
Here’s a good article, from the American Social Health Association, debunking some common myths about HPV.
diseased cunt Krista Kilberg (Northwestern University) seems to agree
Date: February 26th, 2011 10:51 AM Author: Avocado misunderstood stain roommate
and AGAIN
Yanira Araujo asked Lena Chen: So. I'm sorry this is a lame question but you said you no longer have HPV. I thought I read you will always have HPV because it stays latent in your body? I know you're not a doctor, but I just wanted to know more what you've learned over the years because online research (rumors) are confusing. When you had a clear pap your doctor was just like, no more HPV for you?? (BTW I was diagnosed with HPV 3 years ago).
Not a lame question! A lot of people email me about HPV. I’m not a doctor, but I did some digging around at TheHPVTest.com, which is one of the most reliable online sources for information on the human papillomavirus. They had this to say:
Medical science does not yet have all the answers to life’s mysteries, and this is one of them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more than 90 percent of HPV infections are “cleared” by the body within two years. However, it is not known for certain whether the body actually gets rid of the virus altogether, or – as appears to happen in at least some women – the virus is merely suppressed to a low, undetectable level. It’s possible that either scenario can occur, depending on the woman.
The good news is that even if the HPV infection is merely suppressed by the body – “hiding” in the cells at a low level – it cannot cause abnormal cells to form or spread to another person when it is in this non-detectable state. The bottom line: A negative HPV test means you are risk-free for at least the next few years.
However, it is believed that old HPV infections can “re-activate” years later, most likely due to changes in your immune system. (That’s why it’s important to keep your immune system healthy, by eating well, exercising and not smoking. Some experts also believe that taking a folic acid supplement helps.) In addition, if you have sexual contact with a new partner, you could get a new HPV infection with a different type of the virus. Thus, periodic re-testing is needed. Current medical guidelines recommend that women with normal Pap and negative HPV results be re-tested every three years.
In total laymen terms, I think this kind of works like the chicken pox?
In my case, I had an abnormal pap smear this fall, but I tested negative for HPV, so I’m going to start seeing my gynecologist semiannually, since I’ve had a history of abnormal pap smears and low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LGSILs). (Um, yeah, that’s a mouthful.) LGSILs are commonly caused by HPV, but just because you have them or had an abnormal pap does not necessarily mean that you have the virus. Pap smears are not HPV tests; they’re screenings and up to a third of pap smears come up with false positives or false negatives. So, the flip side of this is that getting a normal pap is also not a guarantee that you’re totally clean.
There is a HPV test nowadays for women, and when used along with a pap, it can determine very accurately whether you have a high-grade strain of HPV that will develop into cervical cancer. But again, testing negative doesn’t mean that you don’t need to follow up with your doctor regularly, especially if you have a history of abnormal pap smears. I’m certainly going to do so, even though women in my age group who have exhibited LGSILs have less than a 1 percent chance of developing cervical cancer in the two years following their abnormal paps.
And by the way, there’s no reliable test that’s been developed for men, who very rarely exhibit symptoms, but most sexually active men do have HPV, and they are also at risk of developing penile, oral, or anal cancer (the latter is more common among men with same-sex partners)
Joshua Campoverde, Eva Cohen, Rebecca Maddalo, Serena Yuet Ching May, Alexandra Bell
Karen Yee, Jason D. Burke, Amy Ho, Eric Obenzinger, Samuel Lipoff, Abby Sun (Harvard)
Joanna Ng, Arielle Brousse, John Van Rensburg, Mo Lai Yan Chi, Brittney Winters
Brianna June, Jenn Smith, Gretchen Guo, Dickson Lok, Jessica Qu, Cheong Ming Tam
Jana Yokoyama, Eli Rosenfeld, Marissa Lopez, Justin Oberman, Lana Lingbo Li
Mark Bregman, Sarah Stein Lubrano, Zac Pollinger, Russell Ben Hedman, Tiffany Bonita Litz
Kavita Narayanadas, Justine Tsayfan, Joanna Lam
Josephine Cho, Joy Y. Ding, Natia Kvachantiradze, Steven Cupps
Ruxandra Paul, Michelle Cronin, PA Aphaisuwan, Dylan Jones, Vivien Wu, Jakob Treskow
Loyala de Silva
LOL, looks like moron Sarah Gorr (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) doesn't realize how easy it is to link her to the pornblog she surfed.
First, Sarah Gorr decided that PORNSURFING Lena's Blog on a work-computer made perfect sense.
Then, when the idiot was exposed, Sarah Gorr tried to deny that the images she surfed were porn. Unfortunately for dumbass Sarah Gorr, computer IP records confirmed that the tumblr Sarah Gorr was accessing (Lena's Blog) routinely posted bukkakeporn and fullsexporn (samples of the blog appear at THIS LINK and This Link and at the bottom of this blog [NSFW alert])
One can only wonder what Sarah Gorr's kin (like her mommy Liz Gorr (Westchester Illinois) and her daddy Steven Gorr (who hired dumbskank Sarah Gorr to work at Publications International LTD after employers refused to hire a skank as dumb as Sarah Gorr, who surfs porn from work computers) And are Sarah's sisters (Rachel Gorr [Northern Illinois University] and Katie Gorr [University of Illinois]) as suckyskanky as Sarah?
And you gotta pity Sarah Gorr's fuckbuddy Alex Wayman, who no doubt needed oodles of penicillin to treat the STDs he'd get from rawdawging skank Sarah Gorr.
And do daddy's girl Sarah Gorr's coworkers (Chris Sienko, Andy Hansen, Beth Goers, Steve Pogue, Ann Murphy, John Hansen, Michael Miller, Julie Lewis, Kara Luger, Craig Peterson, Jeff Krakow) know about Sarah Gorr's workplace BukkakePornSurfing?
Nickel's worth of free advice: When Lena Chen asks you about your STDs, be sure your personal information isn't OUTTED in the process (HINT: DONT BE LOGGED IN TO FACEBOOK, DOLTS!). That's what these fools are learning today:
Librarian FIRED for surfing asianporn from his workplace
YellowSkank Elizabeth Yao (University of Michigan) Brenda Gimotea Depasupil,
HUGE TITTEDskank Tara Moross (Harvard),
DUMBcunt Amanda Van Slyke (Edmunton Alberta,
Bellerose Composite High School)
Blog: www.amandavanslyke.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/flurtsite
Email: vanslykea@hotmail.com
flurtsite
(ooh...someone should tell a few peeps about pornsurfingSkank
Amanda Van Slyke:
Rosella Eleanor LaFevre from MLTS Magazine - 267-918-9789
Donna Barker from Cariwest - 780-906-2682
Christie Lavan from the ACWS- 780-456-7000
Whoreskank Allyson Lieberman (UPENN Medical School)
I’ve had HPV. I got it from my pervy teacher, Patrick Hamm. I’ve written about it. I’ve been mocked and criticized for it. But because of that entry and my admission, I’ve had countless readers reach out anonymously over the years to share their own stories with me, stories that they haven’t always felt comfortable telling to anyone else. Well, today is HPV Day, a campaign organized to raise awareness and destigmatize discussion of the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. And I’d love for you guys to take part by starting a much-needed dialogue.
Nickel's worth of free advice: When Lena Chen and Marie Lyn Bernard (Riese) ask you to a meeting to discuss your STDs, be sure your personal information isn't OUTTED in the process (HINT: DONT ANSWER AN INVITE ON A PUBLIC FACEBOOK, DOLTS!). That's what these fools are learning today:
Ella Mitchell, Liana Saussy, Carolyn Farnham, Esi Hutchful (Politcal Action Coordinator at Yale Women's Center), Clio Rocinante, Anisha Suterwala, Michelle Taylor, Sophia Jia, Yonadav Greenwood (Saint Ann's School), Kenneth Reveiz (Collegiate School), Jairo Villalobos, Erin Bellomy Maher (Student Tech at Student Technology Collaborative), Kate Falkenstien, Lily Scarborough Heehs, Mara Dauphin (Access Service Assistant at Yale University Library), Donald Leatherwood (Chestnut Hill Academy) Natalia Thompson, Sally Walstrom, Annelies Gamble, Rachel Lipstein, Courtney R. Peters, Sheila Enamandram, Sam Huber (and his yellow fuckslut Hyungmi Lim), Michelle Hackman, Caroline Elenowitz, Kristen Dowling, Andrew Freeburg Production (Designer at TEDxYale), Esme Hoffman, cocksuckinfag Ryan Mendías (Peer Liaison at Yale University Office of LGBTQ Resources), Marie Lyn Bernard (aka Marie "Riese" Lyn Bernard, Alex Chituc, Minhal Baig, Travis Daschle Trew, Connie Cho (Connie Cho (Yale) Intern at Dwight Hall Urban Fellowship) (Note: Connie Cho got herpes when Eric W. Schultz jizzed on her face), Anna North (Discovery Room at Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History), Zoe Grieder (Simons Rock), Alec Pollak, Elías Kleinbock, Jacqueline Sahlberg, Emma Brennan-Wydra (Commonwealth High School), Kati Moug, Julia Calagiovanni, Vlad Chituc, Tobias Kirchwey (Mold Maker at Taplin Metalworks), Celine Cuevas, Joseph Yagoda, Michelle Gonzalez (Simons Rock College) Caroline Tracey (Works at Yale Sustainable Food Project), Hannah Mogul-Adlin (Works at Yale University Bass Library), Paul Holmes, Hannah Constantin, Sophia Szymkowiak, Hilary O'Connell, Caroline Tan, Katherine McComic (Social Media Assistant at Yale Summer Session) Hannah Zeavin, Jess Belding, Monica Ague, Nicole Battaglia, Connie Cho (Yale), Eric W. Schultz