Sexual Health

In most areas of the world, if you’re looking for daily birth control pills to take to prevent pregnancy, they have many brands, types and names, but they also are not usually avilable for purchase over the counter without a prescription. To be put on the birth control pill, you’ll need to see your…

It is pretty normal to be a bit drier just after menstruation, and tampons also rob you of even more vaginal moisture. While you may be highly aroused, that doesn’t always mean plenty of natrual lubrication. If you aren’t using lubricant with the sex that you’re having, that’s the very first thing I…

Short answer: YES. You NEVER reuse a condom. NEVER. Even if you wash it really thoroughly, you cannot use it again. (If, by chance, by “it” you mean his penis, washing the penis isn’t a method of birth control either, and will not prevent pregnancy.) And if you take the step of having sex a second…

Since there are so many different pill brands, so much information to sort through, and since with adolescents and/or young adults information on some aspects can vary slightly, and we get so many questions about the pill, it seems it’s high time to give the most basic rundown I can speaking to…

You’ve been having unprotected sex. That means you have been at risk of pregnancy and well as sexually transmitted infections. The pregnancy risk is moderate to high, depending on your fertility, and your partner’s sexual habits (as in, if he has ejaculated recently before unprotected intercourse…

Sara: so long as you took the test properly, at this stage of the game, there’s earnestly no reason to be concerned you’re pregnant. With emergency contraception, it’s normal to have both or either some menstrual cycle kookiness for a little while, and/or some unexplained vaginal bleeding. That…

Jako: let’s work backwards with your questions. For starters, her itchiness may have been irritation from either the condom OR the spermicide. Spermicides are essentially dish soap, and genital tissue is delicate, so you can imagine that for a lot of people, it doesn’t feel so good. Since irritation…

Good on you for doing so much research, but if you’re using the birth control pill, then you’re not ovulating, nor most fertile at any given time. The combined pill suppresses ovulation, so there’s no sense in charting when you’re on it, because there isn’t anything TO chart: your fertility status -…

There are a few likely possibilites for this. One might be plain old vasocongestion – when a person becomes sexually aroused, the whole pelvic area fills with blood, which is how erection happens in penis, and vulval engorgement – swelling of the clitoris and vulva – happens in those body parts…

Anon: first things first. Obviously, on top of giving oral sex when you don’t even want to, you’ve also been doing it unprotected. So, the very first thing I’d advise you strongly to do is to go into your doctor or sexual healthcare clinic and get a full STI screen, including a screen for your mouth…