Friday, February 9, 2007

JUST IN TIME FOR VALENTINE’S DAY

From: Web site verifies disease-free sex partners (Katie Rook, National Post, February 8th, 2007)

In what may be the new frontier of online social networking, a Web site is being launched that purports to help online daters verify the sexual health of prospective partners.

Checktonight.com will issue a digital stamp of approval to site subscribers who have tested free of any of five sexually transmitted diseases, a level of disclosure that is seen by some as a predictable innovation in Internet use and by others as a move that is potentially troubling from the perspective of personal privacy, sexual behaviour and possibly the privacy of health records.

"We're talking about this because it's kind of like a new frontier -- it's saying look at how sexual health is coalescing with a Web service that allows people to verify their sexual test records," says Jesse Hirsh, a Toronto-based Internet analyst.

"Last year was You Tube and My Space, people started using the Internet the way it should be used.... Now people are using [the Internet] in a much more interactive way."


We suppose that’s one way of putting it.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

"Last year was You Tube and My Space, people started using the Internet the way it should be used....

To troll for anonymous sex?