PORTLAND -- Cyrus Sullivan has taken a lot of heat after unveiling a website that “outs” people with incurable sexually transmitted diseases.

Much of that criticism has been levied at Sullivan on kgw.com, where at least 50 comments have been posted in relation to a previous report on the former Oregon State University student’s new STD reporting site.

Viewers have left a range of comments on the story and website, ranging from, “You’re a jerk,” to “Get some help,” to “In this day and age, only a dummy has unprotected sex.”

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Sullivan has responded to the criticism, both online in the commenting section of the story, and on the record to KGW.

“Of course people are going to make those kinds of comments,” Sullivan said. “I also get a lot of comments that were supportive.”

Sullivan has a prior criminal record involving a “sex offender prank” he pulled while attending OSU.

In April 2005 Sullivan was arrested for forging documents sent to hundreds of OSU students alleging that a former member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was a sex offender.

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Specifically, Sullivan claimed his former fraternity brother had assaulted a teenaged boy.

He also created a flier advertising a free STD clinic, which included pictures of other members of the fraternity and an address leading to the Tau Kappa Epsilon house.

But Sullivan claims his latest creation, the STD reporting website, is unrelated to his prior fraternity “stunts.”

“This (website) has nothing to do with my past,” he said.

Sullivan went on to say his fraternity experience with Tau Kappa Epsilon was “unpleasant” and specifically alleges that he was hazed.

“I was hogtied and thrown into a shower,” he said.

The idea for the STD website came from a bad experience with a young woman at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

“She infected me and didn’t tell me,” he claims.

Sullivan created the STD reporting website so that infected people could be reported -- and in the hopes that others might have an online reference for those carrying sexual diseases.

However, Sullivan failed to report himself on his own STD reporting website, even though he admitted to carrying herpes.

After the story ran on kgw.com this weekend at least five people reported him.

His picture is now featured on the site.

Sullivan pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of harassment relating to the falsely advertised STD clinics, after he claims his attorney told the court the fliers were pranks.

Despite his past, Sullivan still says he’s doing a public service by posting people who have STDs online.

“This is the most honest thing I’ve done,” he says.