Thank you for a wonderful night. I had a great time. Hope you did too. Looking forward to seeing you again. But after you pay a visit to your doctor. Oh, yes, I almost forgot. You have an STD.

Not quite the follow-up e-mail to a date that went really well anyone would like to type, let alone read.

Nevertheless, these things happen and chances are that even a by-the-book (in terms of protection) sexual encounter could leave you with a bit more than a big smile on your face and the desire to see your partner again. Like a sexually transmitted disease (STD).

Still, such news is never easy to break to someone, especially face-to-face, which seems like the right and most appropriate way to do it. There is an option, though, an electronic one, but it might just do the trick.

Medical News Today reported that a website called www.inSPOT.org allows users to inform their past or current sexual partner(s) of any potential exposure to an STD, by enabling them to send the latter free e-cards specially designed for the news.

The service was developed back in 2004 by the San Francisco Department of Public Health and Internet Sexuality Information Services, now being available in various cities throughout the world.

The website also offers users information on testing options, types of treatment and clinic locations.

STDs include chlamydia, gonorrhea and genital herpes, all of which can be transmitted from one person to another via sexual contact, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex and anal sex.