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Safe sex is about smart sex. It is about educating yourself on birth control, contraception, abstinence and the consequences associated with not having safe sex. The safest sex practice is abstinence, although that is not always a viable option, especially for those who enjoy healthy sexual relations and prefer not to marry. more »
Safe sex posters are an important part of sex education. The posters may address various relevant subject matters and open the doors for further discussion and learning. Unfortunately, a lot of people are never thoroughly educated in regards to the practice of safe sex. more »
Teenage pregnancy is one of the scariest situations that a young woman may face. Many parents are naive when it comes to teenagers and their sexual activities. While many teenagers do practice safe sex and abstinence, a mistake and all consequences can happen any time to any one, not simply to kids who arte "bad" or estranged from... more »
Teenage pregnancy generally refers to the pregnancy of a young girl between the ages of 13 and 17. In addition to the trials and tribulations experienced during any pregnancy, there are many consequences of becoming pregnant as a teen, including moral confusion, social and economic strife and health risks. more »
Chemotherapy is a form of treatment for people suffering from cancer. Chemo is different for everyone considering the type of cancer that is involved, the dosage of radiation administered, their chosen place of treatment and the place in which they receive treatment. Care and affordability vary state to state, but this article will... more »
Though not all Sexually Transmitted Diseases are curable, they are at least avoidable. The more...
While sexual intercourse always involves some risk of pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease, there are definitely ways of making your sexual... more »
Sex among teenagers can often be promiscuous. It is more common on school grounds than most parents would believe. Kids are having sexual... more »
Although sex may be fun and pleasurable, it is not worth getting sick or dying for. Having unsafe sex puts you at risk for many sexually... more »
College life is often full of challenges that seem to roll over from high school. First sexual encounters, unwanted pregnancies and the avoidance... more »
One of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the world, gonorrhea can cause potentially serious medical complications unless you treat... more »
Safe sex is defined as "Sexual activity engaged in by people who have taken precautions to protect themselves against sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS." This is also referred to as safer sex, or protected sex, while unsafe sex or unprotected sex is sexual activity engaged in by people who have not taken precautions to protect themselves against sexually transmitted infections. Some sources suggest the use of safer sex is preferable to safe sex, as this reflects that risk is reduced, not avoided.
Safe sex practices became more prominent in the late 1980s as a result of the AIDS epidemic. Promoting safe sex is now a principal aim of sex education. From the viewpoint of society, safe sex can be regarded as a harm reduction strategy aimed at reducing risks.
The risk reduction of safe sex is not absolute; for example the reduced risk to the receptive partner of acquiring HIV from HIV seropositive partners not wearing condoms to compared to when they wear them is estimated to be about a four- to five-fold."Vittinghoff">Vittinghoff E, Douglas J, Judson F, McKirnan D, MacQueen K, Buchbinder SP. (1999). . Am J Epidemiol. 150(3):306-11. PMID 10430236
Although some safe sex practices can be used as contraception, most forms of contraception dont protect against all or any STIs; likewise, some safe sex practices, like partner selection and low risk sex behavior, arent effective forms of contraception.
Terminology
Recently, and mainly within Canada and the United States, the use of the term safer sex rather than safe sex has gained greater use by health workers, with the realization the grounds that risk of transmission of sexually transmitted infections in various sexual activities is a continuum rather than a simple dichotomy between risky and safe. However, in most other countries, including the United Kingdom and Australia, the term safe sex is still mostly used by sex educators.
Focus on condoms and HIV control
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