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American Sexpress Card: Don't jump in bed without it, founder says
The New York Daily News ^ | August 1, 2008 | CAITLIN MILLAT

Posted on 08/01/2008 8:57:33 AM PDT by Stoat

American Sexpress Card: Don't jump in bed without it, founder says

BY CAITLIN MILLAT
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Friday, August 1st 2008, 12:26 AM

Monaster/News

STFree Certificates founder Eli Dancy is one of 15,000 cardholders.

Dancy displays a card. Monaster/News

Dancy displays a card.

Monaster/News

Call 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."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
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"We have to fix this epidemic," he said. "With this, we can start."

Gee, I thought that we already 'had a start'......

 


1 posted on 08/01/2008 8:57:34 AM PDT by Stoat
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To: Slings and Arrows
Dancy displays a card.

"Just step into my van and I'll check you out ...errr....sign you up"

2 posted on 08/01/2008 8:58:03 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

What do you do with that card?

Swipe it between butt cheeks? :-)


3 posted on 08/01/2008 9:02:42 AM PDT by vietvet67
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To: Stoat

Does he offer a $1,000,000.00 guarantee like Todd Davis does with LifeLock?


4 posted on 08/01/2008 9:03:45 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: Stoat

You have to admit, it’s a clever business plan.


5 posted on 08/01/2008 9:04:02 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Kudzu: A successful government program!)
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To: vietvet67
What do you do with that card?

Swipe it between butt cheeks? :-)

Your suggestion is probably an equally effective approach  :-)

6 posted on 08/01/2008 9:05:47 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

Excuse me while I whip this out.........

7 posted on 08/01/2008 9:07:30 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Obama is making me vote for McCain)
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Does he offer a $1,000,000.00 guarantee like Todd Davis does with LifeLock?

LMAO

 

8 posted on 08/01/2008 9:08:25 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

Looks like something that anyone would come up with on their home computer.


9 posted on 08/01/2008 9:09:31 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: Stoat

I would wager that the license is a lot more expensive than abstinence.


10 posted on 08/01/2008 9:09:59 AM PDT by Hatter6
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To: Stoat

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.

H


11 posted on 08/01/2008 9:11:06 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor (Keep Austin Quarantined ...)
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To: Hatter6

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.


12 posted on 08/01/2008 9:11:47 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan ("Jesse Jackson was an important figure; paving the way for Osama bin Laden to appear" -- Dan Rather)
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To: Hatter6

Imagine asking for or even showing such a license!

Bizarre.

What a sad world we live in.


13 posted on 08/01/2008 9:11:59 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: Stoat

: )


14 posted on 08/01/2008 9:14:12 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: Tax-chick
You have to admit, it’s a clever business plan.

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.

STFree Main page

15 posted on 08/01/2008 9:15:22 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

The first 100 applicants will get a free tire pressure check.


16 posted on 08/01/2008 9:18:29 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Stoat
"Nearly one-third of New Yorkers with multiple sex partners regularly have sex without condoms..."


17 posted on 08/01/2008 9:21:06 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Stoat
"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.

i.e.: "There's no time ... I wanna get laid nooooowwwwwwww!!!!"

18 posted on 08/01/2008 9:21:24 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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To: raven92876; windcliff

ping


19 posted on 08/01/2008 9:22:57 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (I'm a loner Dottie; a rebel.)
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To: Hemorrhage
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!

A former coworker did that once because he had sudden doubts that his hookup really was 18.

20 posted on 08/01/2008 9:28:42 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Whale oil: the renewable biofuel for the 21st century.)
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