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Let Me Put My PHI Inside You!

I was a virgin for a very long time and to be honest, I was terrified of sex.

Growing up in the midwest, I was warned of chlamydia, gonorrhea, AIDs/HIV and the litany of other scary things that can come from sex. I was taught to just abstain from sex and you wouldn’t have to worry.

Well…easier said than done. But as a designer, I asked myself why does putting yourself out there have to be scary? What if we could design sexual experiences that were safer?

And so began my two year journey of designing safe sex in the ‘industry of casual encounters’.

What do Abraham Lincoln, Beethoven, Adolf Hitler, and Napoleon all have in common besides a certain appendage? They all had STDs.

While some may romanticize the lineage of STDs,

The rest of us can agree that STDs are something that need to go!

But how can you stop people from having sex? Um you can’t. The fate of humanity depends on sex. But we can help prevent people from having ‘uninformed’ sex. And this is where the Woop idea was born.

So having an app that integrates with these apps is paramount, queue Woop.

Let’s start with predictive interactions inside apps, like Tinder, or the salacious corridors of Grindr.

Here we can see ‘hook up’ is the trigger phrase and by confirming the proposal, Tinder would trigger a Woop pop up prompting you to send your status. Boom! (we will dig into status in a bit)

Your partner would then be prompted to send his status. This initiates a type of dyadic effect, ‘I showed you mine, show me yours.’

Then you can get to sending nudes or whatever.

Say you didn’t find your partner through a social dating app though. You would be able search for them using Woop.

Woop would aggregate a database of sexually active Woop end users in your area.

Sexual Toggle: Sometimes you’re in the mood, sometimes you’re not. Having a toggle allows you to remove yourself from search results, while also allowing you to review your sexual history or lab results.

Being sexually inactive would disable the search feature.

Opening the app brings you to the Woop Timeline (AKA Woopline). The Woopline tab is basically a history of the people you had sex with.

For deciding what information to include in a ‘status card’ I decided on diseases and health information that could potentially be exchanged in a sexual interaction.

I wasn’t all inclusive though. Like I didn’t include the flu, or a history of tuberculosis. I focused on STDs since that is what I was trying to eliminate.

If I can eliminate these interactions then I can hypothetically eliminate all STDs and therefore, everyone can have sex like crazy, without worrying about contracting anything.

Isn’t that the dream?!

That would also eliminate the need for this app, but that’s waaaay down the road and someone will always have sex with a goat or something. Anyway back to the status.

So Grindr shows HIV status and the date when you received your last sexual health panel test. While this is nice information, it’s not really informative.

Sexy Sam may have received a test a week ago, but also went to Pride in New York over the weekend and had sex with 20 guys.

Or

Chaste Charles may have received a test a year ago, but he hasn’t had sex at all.

So dates aren't really informative here. What is helpful is the number of partners since your last lab test. This is where verified lab results are the crucial functionality of the app.

The number of partners since your last lab is the actual metric we need here.

There would be some edge cases, with the various incubation periods, like HIV. So getting lab results 3 months after the interaction would remove all previous partners. But if you received a test the day after a sexual encounter then the previous 3 month of partners would still be included in your status.

These sent statuses would also erode from your inbox after 24 hours.

Receiving lab test reminders would help Woop users to keep their statuses up to date.

So you just had sex or are about to have sex. Let’s send a Woop!

Sex has various forms so creating a form that highlights the various types of sex is essential. This can be used to inform the partner what you want to do, (consent is so hot) or it can be used after you bump uglies.

This sexual contact data can then be used to predict the likelihood of contracting an STD when receiving positive lab results from previous partners. For example: anal penetration vs fellatio vs a sloppy make out sesh.

This web structure of sexual contact allows for more nuances than just a ‘we fucked’, because sex is not always so straight forward.

For many of you HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) nerds, this concept will immediately set off some red flags. Yes, this whole concept is a HIPAA nightmare.

But it’s not completely crazy. With this project I am challenging a few of those standards and asking the question,

One way of ‘saving face’ was using sticky avatar badges for list displays, this is a fun way of hiding some identities while also giving the recipient a way to identify the individual in their history.

Walking the line of too much and too little information will need to be studied further. As a Millenial, I think more people are open to the idea of sharing more of their sexual health information.

Particularly, if I am putting millions swimming little pieces of my information inside someone or inside of me.

The conversation of sending positive test results can be very awkward. So Woop would help with that awkward encounter.

Firstly, Woop would only send the positive results.

Secondly, Woop would intelligently populate partners based on your sexual contact with them and timeframe.

The recipients can trust the legitimacy of the results since they are coming from a healthcare organization.

Currently, positive test results are communicated differently from clinic to clinic and also depend on the positive result. Some results require an appointment (like HIV) and others a phone call. This communication is often times convoluted and can be scary.

For a project like this to come to fruition, there would need to be policy changes on how we communicate STD/HIV positive results.

Screenshots will be inevitable and people are terrible, so notifying end user of screenshots will be necessary.

Many HIPAA purist may scream at me in anger, saying that would be too much and would be a total clusterf***. But I pose this question:

I think in this scenario of the vengeful partner or FWB that both sides are at least equally equipped with the same information.

With all these interaction data points being recorded, a web of sexual interaction would naturally form. This is also nefarious, but could be very interesting.

Let’s assume the data is locked up like Fort Knox and no one would ever breach the data and send out entire sex webs of who had sex with who.

Let’s assume that no one would ever hack such information because we are all nice people.

While knowing if Micheal Phelps was one of your cumulative sex partners, or if you indirectly had sex with a Kardashian would be interesting to know, I think we can all agree that would be wrong.

What if instead, we used this data to send out notifications to end users of spikes in Gonorrhea on a college campus. That would be kinda cool.

Aye! So hot, much wow.

Unlike cancer or genetic diseases that are untreatable. STDs are something we can eliminate by correcting the behavior and changing the culture. If sending your status, recording your interactions and getting tested became as commonplace as sending nudes or just ‘swiping right’ then we could have a significant impact on these diseases and maybe just maybe eliminate them all together.

So next time you have a dick in you, or a vagina on your face. Ask yourself, “Where has this thing been?” because it is now a part of your sexual browser history, and you may not be able to erase it.

Thanks for reading! Give me the good ole ‘clap’ if you agree something should be done. Also feel free to give me feedback of any kind.

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