It&rsquos a scene common enough in college: a couple friends get together and start talking about who they&rsquove hooked up with. Soon, someone loses track and is reminded: &ldquoWait, do you remember that girl at that party&hellip&rdquo and then recollection washes over their mind: &ldquoOh yeah how could I forget that?&rdquo

This is the typical conversation the Web site www.myblackbook.org was founded on. A couple guys wanted to keep track of their sexual activity and thought the traditional black book that kept track of past hookups was now outdated with the advent of new technology.

Founder Robert Ianuale and his friends started gathering ideas by going to a mall and surveying people. There, they found a staggering two-thirds of people did not keep track of who they had slept with.

Therefore, they created the site, which is the first and only completely free online service that helps members keep track of all the details of their sexual histories. It allows people to log their sexual activities and assess their risks for sexually transmitted diseases. All entries to the site are confidential and will not be shared with anyone.

&ldquo[We] hope that through self-taught education about sexually transmitted diseases, as well as personal assessment through the act of keeping track of their sexual history, that we can make a difference in society and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases,&rdquo he said.

To utilize MyBlackBook, you must register with a username and password.

From there, you can add new entries, or sexual partners, as well as multiple sessions with each entry. Users can input the person&rsquos name, age and sexual experience, as well as peripheral topics, like hotness rating and nationality.

Each session entry includes a time and date, as well as length and type of sexual encounter and whether the activity was protected.

&ldquo[MyBlackBook] is a novel idea, but its advocacy is questionable. It&rsquos not effective, because it works on a shame and guilt principle,&rdquo said Christy Nyathera McGee, a junior in New College.

The purpose of this site, to prevent the spread of STDs, is fulfilled when users access VDnote, which stands for Venereal Disease Notification, a patented program that scrutinizes the information entered and gives the user the probability of obtaining several sexually transmitted diseases, such as herpes and HIV, and compares them to the site and national averages.

MyBlackBook users average a risk of 13.06 percent for herpes and 6.15 percent for HIV, while the national averages are slightly higher, with 15.21 percent and 13.06 respectively.
There are currently 14,233 people who utilize MyBlackBook, and the numbers have been steadily growing since its creation in 2004.

&ldquoKeeping records for records&rsquo sake is not effective,&rdquo McGee said. &ldquoAlthough it&rsquos important to not forget who you&rsquove slept with, if you are blocking out giant pieces of sexual history, then you have other problems.&rdquo

Ianuale is the site&rsquos only source of financial backing, but the site says that it hopes to expand through advertising and word of mouth.

However, more important than the site&rsquos business is their mission, Ianuale said.

&ldquoEven if one person who visits the site inputs enough information and, upon the results being tallied, the user is notified and they go and get tested, we are but one step further in containing the spread of STDs,&rdquo Ianuale said.