SXSW is in full swing in Austin, TX, and while we’re not there, we’re keeping updated on the news and stories coming to us from what is actually south by southEAST from us. It’s been fairly unexciting for the first few days of the geekfest, but there was one story that caught our attention: a new social network called Qpid.me that has been developed to help people share with potential sex partners their health status – as in, if they have any STDs.

Qpid.me, whose tagline “spread the love, nothing else,” works by connecting you to your healthcare provider, with whom you sign a HIPAA agreement allowing your results to be submitted, and then can send your verified STD test results to the person you’re planning on hooking up with via text.

Uh… what. I don’t know about you but that seems PRETTY far fetched in the world of random hookups. While we think it’s a great sentiment – people should be open and honest about their sexual health status before entering into an intimate relationship with another person, but asking a person to have their doctor send them a verified copy of their STD results would probably put a bit of a damper on the mood. It doesn’t help that the Qpid.me site appears to have been sketched up on Microsoft Paint.

We hope that a time comes when people can be trusted to be 100% honest about their sexual health status, and until then, maybe Qpid will spread like an untreated case of herpes. We just can’t picture people requesting a scanned copy of their one-night stand’s blood test and having it end well.

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