 I have undoubtedly shared a lot on this channel and I mean a lot but there are some things that I haven't shared with anybody. So when MTV and Trojan Condoms who I'm working with in collaboration for the Guide to series said hey you have anything to contribute to the condom conversation I knew it was time for me to share this piece of my story with you guys that not even my parents know my close friends don't know but now I want to make public so my mistake can be your life lesson. I feel nervous. I love the fact that I added the extra pressure of the extra pressure myself making this like public. Let me have this moment in peace. If I'm shouting it out what's the big deal? What is the big deal? Hey everybody I am Shan Booty Boudram and I am a clinical sexologist a youtuber an author a journalist and today I want to share a secret with you guys. I am a survivor of Chlamydia. I say survivor not because it is a life-threatening illness because it is not a life-threatening sexually transmitted infection but I am surviving the stigma and shame and I'm going to live on to tell this and not die of embarrassment which I kind of feel like doing right now but I want to share my story because there's oftentimes we think that there's not truth in the numbers and there definitely is. One in two people under the age of 26 will contract a sexually transmitted infection. That's a whole lot of people behind me. Hi. I'm just trying to say that for what you guys was doing. I'm talking about how I've had Chlamydia. Oh okay. Yeah this probably isn't the cameo video you want to be in. Yeah just walking the slab by the way. Yeah. I just told the stranger I had Chlamydia. Okay. All right we'll do it one more time and I've decided to share my story today because I want everyone to know that there's truth in the numbers that can often feel like they were just pulled out of a random hat. Chlamydia for example has 200,000 cases per year that are reported in the US but here's the scary part. 50% of women who are infected with Chlamydia show no symptoms at all. I am also part of this statistic. So now get out the tea time to tell Chambordy's story. I was in a committed relationship and about three or four months in I got onto birth control and we decided that we didn't need to use condoms anymore. Now this was an informed decision on my part we had both gotten tested we were healthy so everything seemed kosher and cool. Fast forward to a year into our relationship and my mom who works as a nurse said hey do you want to get a free health assessment at her job and I'm like yeah I'd like a free health assessment you know I'm not thinking anything could be wrong with me and so there's no conflict of interest in my heart so I go to the health assessment I'm chatting up with everybody I had a really dope smoked salmon sandwich I'll remember for the rest of my life and I got tested I got both a pap test and a blood test and then I went on about my business. About two weeks later I get a phone call from a blocked number it was the clinic sorry I know they're not laughing at me but it feels that way so I rolled the dice answered the phone and it turned out to be the health clinic and immediately my heart sank they informed me that I had tested positive for chlamydia now I had a thousand questions how could this be possible I just been tested I don't sleep around I'm in a monogamous relation and that's how I found out that my monogamous relationship was anything but and it turns out I'm not alone one in four people who think that they are in a monogamous relationship that's not really quite the truth which is why to this day no matter who I'm with what we're doing or how long we've been together I walk with one of these I carry a condom sometimes for a friend hell sometimes yeah I carry a condom for myself it's no one's business why I have it but everybody wins what I do because it just takes one takes one asshole in my case one bad experience one forgetful night but to combat all that it also just takes one condom that can potentially save your life so I want you guys to keep the condoms lose the assholes and have a better sex life that's what I call responsible as bringing a condom does not automatically mean that it's the right time to engage in sex the magic word is yes use a condom every time responsible as is that what it seemed like that's what it seemed like condom