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Thank goodness for technology!

Now we can prove to sexual partners that we're STD free! Just by bumping phones!

The new smartphone feature called "safe bumping" uses an app called MedXSafe where people can quickly exchange contact info and STD-free status.

Tags: app, cdc, certification, doctor, free, health, high school, kids, medical, phone, report, sex, smartphone, std, sti, tech, technology

Kris Humphries, no stranger to the courtroom, has just been hit with a new lawsuit.

And this one's a doozy! It claims he gave a lady herpes!

Kayla Goldberg says she got the virus after she spent a night with the Hump back in August 2010, pre-Kim, after they met at the Newsroom Cafe in El Lay.

She claims that they knocked boots several times that night and sometimes without a condom.

Blech!

A week after their rendezvous, Kayla says she was diagnosed with herpes with symptoms including fever, body aches and painful lesions.

So now, she's suing Kris for sexual battery because, according to her, he failed to inform her he had the herp.

Humphries is obvi denying the claims saying that he's been tested recently and doesn't have the STD and he's now actually considering counter-suing her for defamation.

Nothing like a herpes rumor to throw salt in your game!

If she's lying like he claims, then now her name is in the news and everyone knows she has herpes.

Way to go.

In the meantime though, if Kris DOES have those nasty crotch craters, what does that say for Kim? Oooh, gurl, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself (and Kanye). Kris really is just the gift that keeps on giving, isn't he??

[Image via PNP/WENN.]

Tags: awful, battery, bod, claims, court, herpes, kris humphries, lawsuit, news, night, pain, rumor, salt, sex, std, symptoms, test

Quick!

Everybody quit having unprotected sex!

There! We solved it!

(If only it were that easy…)

According to a new study, STDs are on the rise in California!

Tags: body, california, disease, easy, increase, new study, scary, sex, std, study

Uh oh.

Look out all you fornicators, there's a new strain of gonorrhea that's resistant to antibiotics.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning doctors around the world that there is a new deadly strain of gonorrhea.

Gonorrhea normally only has one treatment, cephalosporin antibiotics, but this strain isn't affected.

A scientist in the WHO's STD department said:

"This organism has basically been developing resistance against every medication we've thrown at it. In a couple of years it will have become resistant to every treatment option we have available now."

About 106 million people a year get "the clap."

Right now, scientists are scrambling to find a different treatment, but what happens when we're just out of treatment options?

Someone needs to invent nanobots, and quick.

Tags: antibiotic, couple, deadly, doctor, doctors, gonorrhea, health, medication, men, million, organization, people, scientists, std, treat, treatment, world

Well… they might have.

Pop sensation One Direction is currently touring Australia and New Zealand.

While there they visited a zoo and got the chance to cuddle with a cute koala!

But the 3-year-old Koala played a prank on the boys and took a pee right on them!

Normally this would be just a funny, gross inconvenience — until the boys learned that 80% of koalas have chlamydia!!

OMG!

The boys actually stood a chance to contract the disease when the koala peed on them!

Good thing koala chlamydia is different from human chlamydia. Although there's always the chance the koala could have the rare strain that humans can contract.

Check out the video (above) to hear how it all went down.

Tags: australia, band, chlamydia, gross, koala, new zealand, one direction, pee, std, sti

Not a single person would sign up for this, sadly, as we feel like deep down this is a very personal set of information that nobody wants shared online.

Plus it would take Facebook to even creepier levels (how is that possible??), no matter how good the intentions are!

Anyway, would it be like checking in? LOLz!

Here's what one of the researchers at University of North Carolina believes:

“When we looked at the networks, we could connect many of the cases to sexual encounters, and when we asked who they hung out with, who they knew, we could connect 80 percent of the cases."

While that's certainly nobel, we just don't think people will give up their privacy like that! We're all for opening up discussions, though, and reducing social stigma. We just don't see people wanting the whole world to know.

There IS a virus based app that might do us some good, though: University of California, San Diego, has created an app that predicts your risk of catching the flu, using status updates from your social network.

If they released this STD App, would U take part??

P.S. CLICK HERE to "follow" Perez on Twitter!

P.P.S. CLICK HERE to "like" Perez on Facebook!

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: body, california, date, facebook, flu, network, north carolina, people, research, researchers, risk, sad, sex, single, std, university

MTV wants everyone to know (as do we) that April is STD Awareness Month!!

Didn't know that??

Well now you do and make sure everyone else does.

Because guess what… one in two sexually active youngins WILL GET AN STD by age 25!!!

And even if you're not sexually active (which is totally cool too) you still have to be careful. Use any truck stop restrooms recently? Getting tested might still be smart.

Have a promiscuous friend? Go with them so they don't feel bad! Make a day of it!

Feel uncomfortable about going to get tested? It's painless, usually very cheap (sometimes free) and it's not awkward because you're trying to stay healthy! (And people will know you have sex which makes you super cool.)

For more info U can click HERE!

Remember: GYT! Get Yourself Tested!

Tags: disease, health, mtv, sex, sexually active, sexually transmitted disease, std, std awareness month, young adults