Sexual Health

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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Articles and Advice in this area:

Advice
  • Susie Tang

Hi there, metronidazole (Flagyl) is the most common treatment for bacterial vaginosis (BV). While many people who contract BV don’t show symptoms, when they do, the discharge that usually occurs is milky-greyish and fishy-smelling. that doesn’t really fit with the description you gave. However it is…

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  • Heather Corinna
  • Finn Black

What do you really know about HIV and AIDS? How sure are you that what you know is correct or complete, and how much do you think it matters that you know about HIV and AIDS at all?

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

Sarah, Sometimes, some folks just have REALLY sensitive noses, and will be convinced their genitals smell awful when they smell completely normal. That might be the case here with you. Too, if that profuse discharge is only happening for a few days once each menstrual cycle, that may simply be the…

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  • Heather Corinna

One thing to understand about hormonal birth control is that it’s sometimes NOT advised for people dealing with depression, because the particular hormones in birth control can make some kinds of depression worse for some people. Sometimes they may have no impact on depression at all, but it’s…

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  • Heather Corinna

In truth, it takes a more than one sperm to fertilize an egg. Only the one does the fertilizing, but that one sperm needs a couple hundred “helper” sperm to do the job. That isn’t to say pre-ejaculate cannot cause pregnancy. From all we know practically and scientifically, on some occasions when pre…

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

I’m afraid you’re not going to like my answer very much. Really? You don’t want to be having intercourse – or even outercourse, if it isn’t comfortable and protected – when you’re not fully over a yeast infection (as your treatment will mention in the instructions). For starters, yeast infections…

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  • Heather Corinna

First up, good onya, J, for thinking about these things in advance, despite that fact that you’ve been so unprepared to do so by your community! Here’s the scoop on condoms for you. Effectiveness & Use: With perfect use, condoms are HIGHLY effective, around 98%. Perfect use means a few things. It…

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  • Heather Corinna

First things first: when something hurts, that really is your body’s way of telling you that IT wants whatever it is to STOP. So, next time? If it hurts? Press pause. Manual sex really shouldn’t hurt – nor should it just be something one gets used to: sex should feel GOOD – and if it did hurt a…

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  • Heather Corinna

You know, what “sex” even IS differs for everyone. There are a world of sexual activities out there – oral sex, manual sex, intercourse, anal play, role play, frottage, the works – and how each person does them isn’t only different from person to person, but from partnership to partnership, and…

Article
  • Heather Corinna

If you’re a guy, even though you’re not the one who can become pregnant, you still get choices, and you still should participate in birth control use and responsibility just as much as a female partner. Have a look at how you can do your part.