Want to let you’re sweetie know you care… without really putting forth much effort, money or personal contact? Have we got the thing for you! InSPOT is an online postcard you send to previous sexual partners, gently informing them that you might have given them syphilis or somesuch:

“Who? What? When? Where?” one available e-card begins. “It doesn’t matter. I got an STD; you might have it too. Please get checked out.”

It’d be cute if this came in the form of speech bubbles by various woodland creatures. The cards were created by sex educator and author Deb Levine and Dr. Jeffrey D. Klausner, director of STD Prevention and Control Services for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. And how did this come about? Vigorous pumping. Also, the internet:

Klausner set out to discover why the rate jumped and learned that men had begun meeting each other online for casual encounters. Those encounters may be anonymous, but usually involve an exchange of e-mails. “That turned on a light for me and I realized we needed to do something online.”

There have been about 50,000 of these postcards sent since 2004. Check out some of their designs:

The fancy font makes it fester and drip with thick rivulets of pure class.

Trust. After a particularly raucous round of “Duck, Duck, Goose,” our head also turned florescent magenta.

Apology accepted. :)

Nothing adds levity to the news that you might have contracted sores, warts or irreversible sterility quite like a good pun.

STD postcards: You’ve got mail — and more [MSNBC]
[inSPOT]