Think it’s important to remember that more incidences can also mean more testing and a more sexually educated populace. Districts with well educated, low-key offers (checkpoints, anonymous tests, queer sensitive practices, etc) like Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, and less stigma and more responsibility surrounding sexual health, will naturally mean more people test more regularly, which means more rates of incidence.
I’m thrilled I’m finally off the dating market despite all the fun that was.
What always shocked me about Germany is the lack of walk-in clinics and sexual health clinics.
Just every day stuff, not “fight with a dragon (medical secretary) until they let you come in for their _akute Sprechstunde_ tomorrow at 7am” but just here’s a place anyone can go at any time of day (in Canadian urban centres they are 7am-midnight, 7 days per week). Not emergencies, but also urgent.
Organized and Efficient. How on earth Germans managed to export this reputation is a complete mystery to me.
Originally, it meant Club Transmediale, which was the musicial side-festival adjacent to the Transmediale. CTM appears to have become another full-blown arts festival in its own right.
Think it’s important to remember that more incidences can also mean more testing and a more sexually educated populace. Districts with well educated, low-key offers (checkpoints, anonymous tests, queer sensitive practices, etc) like Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, and less stigma and more responsibility surrounding sexual health, will naturally mean more people test more regularly, which means more rates of incidence.
An excellent point. Thanks for that!
I’m thrilled I’m finally off the dating market despite all the fun that was.
What always shocked me about Germany is the lack of walk-in clinics and sexual health clinics.
Just every day stuff, not “fight with a dragon (medical secretary) until they let you come in for their _akute Sprechstunde_ tomorrow at 7am” but just here’s a place anyone can go at any time of day (in Canadian urban centres they are 7am-midnight, 7 days per week). Not emergencies, but also urgent.
Organized and Efficient. How on earth Germans managed to export this reputation is a complete mystery to me.
Kita was in Treptow, not in Lichtenberg
Corrected! Thanks.
What does CTM stand for?
Originally, it meant Club Transmediale, which was the musicial side-festival adjacent to the Transmediale. CTM appears to have become another full-blown arts festival in its own right.
https://www.ctm-festival.de/