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Testing, Testing: All About Getting Tested for STIs
What does STI testing involve? How do you do it? Where? When? What do you do with your results? We answer all these questions and more to help demystify testing so you can take care of you and yours with less stress and more confidence.
Body Talk: Listening To and Learning From Your Chronic Pain
For those of us with chronic pain, living our lives with other people -- be that with sex or something else -- can be tricky. Why was I often having such a hard time communicating such basic things? I realized that some of the survival strategies I used to get through the day were coming back to bite me. Over time, I developed some strategies for re-learning how to listen to myself.
Three Dating Apps Are Made for People With Illnesses and Disabilities (at The Mighty)
If you have a chronic illness or disability and want to see if you can find love among other people with similar health challenges, there are a few dating apps to choose from.
The STI Files: Mycoplasma genitalium
Mycoplasma genitalium (sometimes called Mgen) is a bacterial infection spread through sexual contact. Although it's pretty common now, it isn't diagnosed and treated as often as it should be.
Sick, Sexy, and Disabled
When your disabled body decides to literally crap out on you, how do you bring sexy back?
Partners in Pain
How do you navigate a relationship when one or both partners are dealing with pain?
Higher Learning: Navigating Sex and Relationships in College
Going away to school can present some new sexual challenges. Here's a get-you-started guide to grow on.
安全的性爱
什麼是安全性行為？找出你如何才能最好地降低性傳播疾病的風險，並保護您的健康，以及如何做到這一點，在它沒有感覺像性愛正派旅或將在buzzkill支持。
An Infection Getting Worse and Worse: Can I Just Wait it Out?
Meghan_Hoover
I am 15 and I just had sex for the first time last Friday. It was unprotected but he did not cum. The next morning I had pain. The pain continued through Saturday and Sunday. I thought the pain was from having sex for the first time, but it's now Monday and I realized stinging while I pee, cloudy with some blood in it too, in addition to constantly having to pee and never feeling empty....
Sex And Disability: Starting the Conversation, Finding the Resources
As an educator and advocate of healthy sexuality, who also has some disabilities, I think it’s pretty important for people to have accurate information, but also to see themselves and their experiences included in the conversations we have about sexuality. So, I’ve put together a list of resources that put people with various kinds of disabilities smack dab back in the middle of the conversation.