Monaster/NewsSTFree Certificates founder Eli Dancy is one of 15,000 cardholders.
Posted on 08/01/2008 8:57:33 AM PDT by Stoat
Friday, August 1st 2008, 12:26 AM
Monaster/NewsSTFree Certificates founder Eli Dancy is one of 15,000 cardholders.
Monaster/NewsDancy displays a card.
Monaster/NewsCall it a license to thrill.
Sexually active New Yorkers looking to wise up before turning the lights down can verify their partners' sexual health status with a simple glance in their wallet.
Manhattan-based company STFree Certifications provides its health-conscious customers a sexual history "license" with a phone number on the back that enables them to prove their testing backgrounds to potential partners.
More than 15,000 people nationwide have signed up for the STFree service, launched in 2004 by Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, native Eli Dancy.
Dancy, a former club promoter, said he saw "a lot of irresponsibility" in his neighborhood and created the STFree card to help raise awareness.
"In places like where I grew up and where I worked, there are incredibly high HIV and STD rates," said Dancy, 28. "This card opens up the conversation for people to talk about it."
Nearly one-third of New Yorkers with multiple sex partners regularly have sex without condoms, government statistics show. More than 100,000 New Yorkers have HIV or AIDS.
"People in our community don't take the time to check each other, and it puts a lot of lives at risk," said Harlem resident Tawanna Jones, 23.
At registration, which can be completed online or inside an STFree van that travels citywide, program subscribers must provide a detailed sexual profile and be tested.
To access the testing history of an STFree cardholder, partners must have access to the phone number located on the back of the card as well as to a PIN number provided only to the STFree member.
"This card will keep people from lying and get it all out in the open," said Bronx beautician Lorna Smith, 51, who lives in the borough with the highest AIDS death toll citywide.
"It will let you know who's safe, and who's not. It's definitely a good idea," said fireproofer Eric Lopez, 28, of Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
STFree members pay a one-time $19.99 fee for the service - which Dancy said will allow more people to join.
"Our goal is to make it easy for people to get this done," said Dancy, who works with other HIV/AIDS and sexual health programs to encourage people to get tested.
"We have to fix this epidemic," he said. "With this, we can start."
Gee, I thought that we already 'had a start'......
"Just step into my van and I'll check you out ...errr....sign you up"
What do you do with that card?
Swipe it between butt cheeks? :-)
Does he offer a $1,000,000.00 guarantee like Todd Davis does with LifeLock?
You have to admit, it’s a clever business plan.
Swipe it between butt cheeks? :-)
Your suggestion is probably an equally effective approach :-)
Excuse me while I whip this out.........
LMAO
Looks like something that anyone would come up with on their home computer.
I would wager that the license is a lot more expensive than abstinence.
Nothing spices up the sex-life like carding someone in the heat of the moment. Maybe she should keep her card in her bra. Ta-da!
Seems to me it’d be a better idea not to screw someone whose sexual history could make them the human equivalent of the CDC. If they’ve been ridden harder than a rental car, perhaps you might look elsewhere.
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I would wager that anyone who has that card is someone with whom it would not be safe to have sex.
I am thinking whores and johns will be the most likely users of this product.
Imagine asking for or even showing such a license!
Bizarre.
What a sad world we live in.
: )
Oh, I absolutely agree....
STFree members pay a one-time $19.99 fee for the service
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More than 15,000 people nationwide have signed up
So he's got $300,000.00 in the bank already and he's hitting up corporate sponsors as well:
STFree wants to make the Safe Sex License available FREE to ALL those who want to be more responsible and safe. To accomplish this, we have created a program for corporations to give back to the community, while showing their concern for public safety in this growing epidemic.
Your company can now be apart of the movement by sponsoring the Safe Sex License, and STFree will place your company’s logo on each and every SSL sponsored by your company or organization.
The first 100 applicants will get a free tire pressure check.
i.e.: "There's no time ... I wanna get laid nooooowwwwwwww!!!!"
ping
A former coworker did that once because he had sudden doubts that his hookup really was 18.
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