Breaking Sexual Shame & the Truth About STI Testing with Robert

Robert is the founder of Shameless Care, a telehealth service built around a gap he discovered the hard way: a past partner tested negative on a standard STI panel and still had gonorrhea — because routine testing almost never checks the throat or rectum, only urine and blood. He tells Jennelle how that experience led him to build multi-site, at-home swab testing, and the numbers are staggering — around 86% of the oral gonorrhea cases his service catches would be completely missed by conventional screening. They get into who falls through the cracks (from newborns at risk of congenital syphilis to the geriatric population, who get tested far less than people assume) and why for-profit labs and primary care so rarely screen beyond the basics. Jennelle brings her own lens to the conversation, connecting tantric principles to the shame so many of us carry around sex — and how that cultural and religious conditioning creates real emotional and somatic disconnection. A candid, no-shame conversation about the sexual health conversations we should all be having. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.