Editor, Gazette-Journal:

I’m speaking out to save a young man or a young woman’s life, or possibly a marriage. All we have to do is practice safe sex.

I have been a sex addict most of my life, since my teens. I have Hepatitis B. I have no children I know about and, to this day, don’t know what female gave me the STD. I have been with over 300 different women in sexual intercourse or sexual behavior. My life didn’t change. 

My awareness is that health care is a big must. We have to wrap it up, get tested, take better care of ourselves, and have care for the one that has everything going for themselves and the last thing they need is an STD to ruin it all. Let’s keep awareness for safe sex so we can help build lives instead of destroying them.

Please note, minus the public embarrassment, these old, young men and women feel better inside when they hear it from someone they know or can relate to.

Demetrious Melvin Green

Gloucester, Va. ...