Safe Sex.
Sex is pretty great. And it can also be pure pleasure. Let's face it, it can be amazing, passionate, intense and everything we want. But sometimes things we weren't expecting can happen too - which isn't a good thing. So how do you get the pleasure without the consequence? Safe sex - duh.
Safe sex is basically the use of condoms or products that prevent the transmission of bodily fluids. It is protection from Sexually Transmitted Infections or Diseases, including HIV/AIDS, and also from pregnancy if you aren't already using a form of birth control. Facts and statistics can be boring but in this case you should know the numbers of people who get STD's without their knowledge and it is a surprising number.
In America, 65 million people currently have an incurable sexually transmitted infection and approximately 18 million American get one or more STDs every year. That's a lot of potential sex partners who could give you a STD if safer sex isn't on your mind. Especially in this age where there is such a huge increase in viral and incurable infections, it vital to protect yourself before its too late. So before participating in sex without protections, or just sex in general, have a chat with your partner and make sure neither of you have an STD. This actually helps bring comfort, trust, and intimacy in the relationship believe or not!
1. Barrier methods rule the day (and the night). Use barrier protection for sex, even when you and your partner have no symptoms; you may not realize you have an infection. Latex condoms used in vaginal, oral, and anal intercourse, are the safest and best-known barrier protection. Remember, condoms and other barriers don't protect you from getting infected in places they don't cover.
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In America, 65 million people currently have an incurable sexually transmitted infection and approximately 18 million American get one or more STDs every year. That's a lot of potential sex partners who could give you a STD if safer sex isn't on your mind. Especially in this age where there is such a huge increase in viral and incurable infections, it vital to protect yourself before its too late. So before participating in sex without protections, or just sex in general, have a chat with your partner and make sure neither of you have an STD. This actually helps bring comfort, trust, and intimacy in the relationship believe or not!
The Safe Sex Guidelines
1. Barrier methods rule the day (and the night). Use barrier protection for sex, even when you and your partner have no symptoms; you may not realize you have an infection. Latex condoms used in vaginal, oral, and anal intercourse, are the safest and best-known barrier protection. Remember, condoms and other barriers don't protect you from getting infected in places they don't cover. 2. Use protection even if you don't need birth control. Women who have had a hysterectomy or tubal ligation, or who have gone through menopause, can't get pregnant but still need to use protection to reduce the risk of getting an STD. If you are using a IUD, a diaphragm, or hormonal methods of birth control to prevent pregnancy, you can still get an STD if you don't use a barrier method of protection.
3. Lather up, then cover up. Washing the genitals, anal area, and hands before and after sex, and between anal and vaginal contact, is good hygiene and may cut down on urinary tract infections, but washing and douching will not prevent STD transmission. Douching may even push infections higher up in our vaginas and affect our other reproductive organs. After you wash, don't forget to reach for that condom.
4. Watch out for blood. Be careful during sexual activities that may involve blood. Direct contact with blood - including menstrual blood - of an infected person can transmit infections, including HIV or hepatitis.
5. Know your risk. If you're having sex that puts you at high risk for getting an STD, make sure you're well protected. Anal and vaginal intercourse are high-risk sexual activities for STD transmission; kissing and massaging are not. If you know what kinds of sex put you at higher risk, you can protect yourself accordingly.
6. It's never too late for safer sex. If you haven't been safe in the past, that doesn't mean being safe won't help you in the future. There's no better time to start than the present. If you don't have an STD, safer sex protects your future partners and prevents you from getting another STD.
7. Make foreplay the main course instead of just the appetizer. Touching, stroking, and caressing each other can be very erotic and fulfilling. If you don't have a condom and you want to make love, this kind of contact is a good way to get off while being safe. It's low-risk and feels great. If you do want to have intercourse, good foreplay will help make sure your vagina is lubricated so that a condom is less likely to tear during sex.
Make sure you use a new condom each time you have sex, and have more than one with you just in case! Condoms these days are actually really modified to seek many many pleasures for both you and your partner. New features like lubricates, ribbed condoms, playing with temperature, vibrations, and thinness of the condoms were made to make sex feel sensational!
Happy Humping!
Love,
ALPHA
(Information from Our Bodies, Ourselves)
(Information from Our Bodies, Ourselves)
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