YPSILANTI, Mich. (FOX 2) - A graduate student at Eastern Michigan University wants to change the way we view sexually transmitted infections, aiming to remove shame and stigma in the process.

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Max Morefield says sexually transmitted diseases have been a source of shame and stigma, particularly against the LGBTQ community. Then one day, he realized he had contracted an STI.

"Before I contracted chlamydia and gonorrhea, I had never been informed of my past partners," he said.

When he became a grad student at Eastern Michigan University, he decided to create something to promote safer sex. An app anyone can download called Knowledge & Information Safer Sex , or KISS for short.

How it works:

Users can create an anonymous profile using a random Google or Apple email

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