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...
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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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- Finn Black
Hepatitis is is an inflammation of the liver almost always caused by different hepatitis viruses. Learn about prevention and treatment for hepatitis A, B, C, and beyond.
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- Finn Black
About one in five people in the United States over age 12 — approximately 45 million individuals — are infected with HSV-II, the virus that causes genital herpes. Around 50-80 percent of the adult population has oral herpes, which most people contract through nonsexual contact in childhood.
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- Finn Black
Is pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention right for me? When should I use post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP)? Get the answers to these and other PEP/PrEP questions, right here!
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- Al Washburn
A guide to accessing hormonal contraception (regular and emergency) via online mail-order pharmacies and other helps when access in the United States is looking grim.
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- Caroline Reilly
What’s endometriosis and what can you do about it?
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- s.e. smith
While most cases of Zika virus are acquired via mosquito bites, this emerging virus can be transmitted sexually, and the CDC reports that the numbers of such cases are growing in subtropical regions of the Americas.
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- Lachrista Greco
So, you’ve got an STI. How do you tell current or potential partners?
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- 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…
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- 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.
