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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a uterus made out of paper and plants that looks like its going to be okay
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Navigating PCOS: A Comprehensive Guide to Symptoms, Solutions, and Support

  • Ashrene Rathial
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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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I've been abused, but I have to have a pap smear.

  • s.e. smith
vintage image of someone keeping a stroke with a baby away by aggressively waving their parasol at them (this is an uneffective method of birth control, btw)
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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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The FBI Files: Vaginismus

  • Heather Corinna

Some people experience great pain or discomfort with vaginal sex or other kinds of vaginal entry that’s not about hymens, lack of arousal or lubrication, or rough partners, but about a health condition known as vaginismus.

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FBI Files: Candidiasis, AKA, Yeast Infections

  • Heather Corinna

Itching like nobody’s business down south? Have a curdled discharge? Candida Albicans may be the hoodlum to blame.