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...
How Not to Get Pregnant : Five Things You Can Do to Most Effectively Prevent Pregnancy
- Heather Corinna
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- Lachrista Greco
So, you’ve got an STI. How do you tell current or potential partners?
- Amanda Seely
First of all, a bit of information about HPV. In general HPV is quite common and quite contagious. It’s slightly less contagious in vulva-to-vulva contact when compared with penis-vulva contact or penis-anal contact, but it is still contagious nonetheless, and can be contagious even without direct…
- Amanda Seely
Worried a medication might interact/interfere with your hormonal contraceptive, or vice versa? Here’s a rundown of the most common culprits in birth control interference.
- Heather Corinna
- Isabella Rotman
Everything you’ll probably ever need to know about safer sex barriers, like which to use, how to use them, how to get more comfortable with them, and how surprisingly cute they are.
- Heather Corinna
One of the most common condom whoopsies we hear about from our users involves themselves or a partner going to put a condom on, then discovering they’ve put it on the wrong way. Often, after doing that, they’ll also report following that up with a second common oops, which is just flipping that same condom over and then putting it on the right way.
- Laurel Isaac
When I started having sex with girls, there was no one cheering, especially not encouraging me to have safer sex. But over the last few years, I’ve finally begun to feel confident with safer sex, and it’s improved my sex life a million percent. I wish I’d gotten comfortable with it sooner.
- Heather Corinna
I have to give you an answer I know you won’t like, but there really isn’t any other right answer. It very much sounds like you need to get this evaluated, ASAP, by a healthcare provider. Right now. A Z-pack may or may not treat your infection, especially since that class of antibiotics isn’t always…
- Heather Corinna
- Patricia Hu
Want a quick way to sort out what does and does not pose real risks of pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections? We’ve taken the temperature for you here.
- Heather Corinna
I’m so sorry to hear about your son’s health problems, Faith. It’s hard enough being a very young parent without the rights of an adult, let alone doing so when your child has serious health problems. It also seems like you might not have a very supportive family, so from the sounds of things, you…