S.A.C. Up If You Want a Healthier Sex Life

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In contemporary and progressive America, where people openly smoke weed in public and compile data as to where to find the best local hook up, talking about sexual health, STDs, and the casual one-night-stand should cease being taboo topics. Rather, they should be openly discussed without the stigmas of shame and embarrassment because, let’s face it, it’s real. People get it on with conviction, often to the point where preventative measures fall by the wayside. But thanks to Dr. Sarah Russo, a Boston-based pharmacist, you can keep track of some of your more questionable, um, encounters, easier.

Russo created S.A.C., a cheeky acronym for Sexual Activity Calendar, in hopes of affording the more libidinous among us a way to keep track of when one has a dalliance that, the next day, may incite that Romeo, or Juliet, to question the reasoning behind their decision. We’ve all been there. *crickets*. Right? *starts sweating bullets*.

 

“I came up with idea for SAC while I was developing the health side of the app,” Russo, a learned pharmacist out of UConn told me in an email. “I was trying to create a health app that was useful with college students in mind. I had started a business four years ago where a lot of my patients were of college age and brought up the subject of STD’s and HPV.”

 

When she brought the topic of her app up with friends, the conversation, surely as naturally as natural as the art of love, segued into one about the lists of lovers her confidants keep. And thus, “The Sexual Activity Calendar came to fruition.”

 

For those who think this is nothing more than an aggregator for amorous affairs, think again. The app also boasts features so that the user is able to not only zero in on that fateful date, but also keep track of his or her insurance card information as well as any prescription medications, allergies, immunizations and doctor appointments.

 

But Russo also realizes it won’t be used this way for everyone. It moonlights as “a diary with your own dirty little secrets.”

 

The most advantageous aspect of S.A.C., though, is the aforementioned stripping away of stigmas. Without open and honest dialogue pertaining to sexual health, the risk of negligence becomes more and more apparent. After all, how can one spread the passion as safely as possible without knowing what to defend themselves against – or how to do it?

 

“Even though that subject can be taboo, it needs to have attention brought to it as the numbers are staggering, especially with HPV and the threat of that turning into cervical cancer in females,” added Russo. “People actually are very open to this app. I have had several people contact me on it and it is gaining popularity quite rapidly.”

 

The S.A.C. is currently available for iOS users in the Apple Store for $.99. And while it can be used by any person of any age, Russo hopes to break into this section of the mobile health market through higher-ed students. And what better way to entice a concupiscent to do, well, just about anything, than by throwing a party?

 

Russo will be hosting an event at Boston’s The Greatest Bar on October 3 to help spread the word on the benefits of S.A.C., while doling out free appetizers, downloads t-shirts, sunglasses and plenty more.

 

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