“I’ll masturbate to pretty much anything.” – Jenelle Marie Pierce
Jenelle Marie Pierce is the Executive Director of The STI Project, the Founder of the herpes activist network, HANDS, and a Spokesperson for PositiveSingles.com. We talk about sexually transmitted diseases, Fosta/Sesta, LUBE, The Vagina Monologues, being shadowbanned on Instagram, dick pics, fried vegetables, being a carny, voyeursim, and how her ex-fiancé is the little brother of her husband.
Nicholas Tanek sits down and has a video chat with her.
Jenelle Marie Pierce is the Executive Director of The STI Project: Breaking the Stigma®, the Founder of the herpes activists network, HANDS, and a Spokesperson for PositiveSingles.com. As an STI+ Sexual Health Educator and content creator, Jenelle has been dismantling stigma by reclaiming STI narratives® through awareness, education, and acceptance since 2012.
Jenelle also tri-chairs the Communications Action Group for the National Coalition for Sexual Health (NCSH), and she is a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), the International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Disstdeases (IUASTD), the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (ASTDA), the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR), the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD), and The Intermountain West HPV Vaccination Coalition.
Jenelle’s work has been featured in popular TV, radio, and print outlets such as: The Washington Post, CNN, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Jezebel, Forbes, HuffPost Live, NPR, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Refinery 29, The Daily Mail, Bustle, and many more. Current bylines can be found in O.School, SELF, HepatitisC.net, Kinkly, PornHub’s Sexual Wellness Center, and Allure.
In her spare time, she teaches group fitness classes and spends time outdoors camping, snow shoeing, hiking, skiing, kayaking, growing things, running through sprinklers, and building sand castles. You can also find Jenelle on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Tumblr.
Jenelle Marie Pierce (she/her)
