Beyond that, you need to seek help from a health care provider to get a complete STI screen for yourself, the treatment that you need, and be as through as you can about protecting other people. It's hard to incorporate all of the good suggestions about protecting ourselves from sexually transmitted infections. But it doesn't mean that you have to completely stop being intimate with others. It's how you are intimate, not that you are intimate. Some strategies that help are to think through the whole process of being intimate, from the 'Hhmmm' of a first sexual thought, through the seduction, through the sexual intimacy, all the way to floating back up out of the euphoria.
Transmission can happen from seduction through the end of the intimacy.
Forethought before Foreplay prevents sexually transmitted infections.