Sexually transmitted infections are one part of sexual health, but that’s not all! Any aspect of health or healthcare that is related to sex and reproduction is about sexual health: menstruation, common infections like yeast or bacterial infections, birth control and abortion, health conditions like endometriosis, PCOS or phimosis, vaccinations, pain with sex, safer sex and other preventative sexual health practices and yep, STIs, too.
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CONTENT NOTE: includes explicit descriptions of medical abuse. I was sexually abused as a young child. I'm 25 now, and I've never had anything inside my vagina. I tried to have a pap smear when I was...
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How Not to Get Pregnant : Five Things You Can Do to Most Effectively Prevent Pregnancy
- Heather Corinna
Articles and Advice in this area:
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- Heather Corinna
If you’re considering fertility awareness (FAM) as a birth control method, or already use it and want more information.
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- Heather Corinna
If you’re considering emergency contraception – pills or a copper IUD – as a birth control method, or already use it and want more information.
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- Heather Corinna
If you’re considering Depo-Provera as a birth control method, or already use it and want more information.
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- Heather Corinna
If you’re considering the contraceptive patch as a birth control method, or already use it and want more information.
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- Heather Corinna
Contraceptive implant research and development began at the Population Council laboratories in New York in 1966. The development of implants was made possible by the discovery of silicone and its bio-compatibility in the human body.
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- Heather Corinna
If you’re considering cervical barriers as a birth control method, or already use them and want more information.
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- Heather Corinna
If you want a hormonal method of contraception, but need help deciding which one.
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- Heather Corinna
If you’re looking for methods of birth control and are trying to decide between an implant, the shot or IUD.
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- Heather Corinna
If you’re considering IUDs or IUSs as a birth control method, or already use them and want more information.
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- Heather Corinna
If you’re considering the combination pill (the most common form of oral contraceptives) as a birth control method, or already use it and want more information.
