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
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- Heather Corinna
Pregnancy prevention information for someone whose body can co-create a pregnancy, but in whose body itself pregnancy can’t happen.
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- Heather Corinna
If you’re looking for methods of birth control and trying to decide between Lea’s Shield, the Sponge or spermicide.
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- Heather Corinna
If you’re looking for a barrier method of birth control and want help deciding which one.
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- Heather Corinna
If you’re considering a nonhormonal method or practice of pregnancy prevention, and want help deciding which one(s).
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- Heather Corinna
If you’re considering a hormonal method of birth control, and want help choosing one.
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- Heather Corinna
A page if you’re someone who does not want to take ANY risk, at all, of a pregnancy, and wants to know your options.
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- Heather Corinna
You’re considering a method or practice of pregnancy prevention, and want need to decide if you want to use a hormonal or nonhormonal method.
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- Heather Corinna
Our giant 25-page guide to birth control options provides in-depth info on contraceptive choices to help you find your BC BFF.
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- Kate Storm
The Fertility Awareness Method (FAM) is a means for women to observe the three primary fertility signals: cervical fluid, waking body temperature and cervix changes so that you can be as in-the-know as possible when it comes to your own fertility and menstrual cycle. Find out the basic how-to so you can make the mystery of your own fertility cycle become a lot less mysterious.
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- Heather Corinna
You can certainly do your best to help keep your immune system doing it’s job to fight off anything you may have been exposed to, just by taking sound care of yourself: eating right, getting enough activity and rest, limiting or avoiding substances that can tax the immune system like caffeine…
