Safe Sex Movement: STI Prevention, HIV Awareness, and Safer Sex
The safe sex movement promotes practical ways to reduce STI, HIV, and unintended pregnancy risks through barriers, testing, contraception, vaccination, education, and informed choices.
First Sexual Experience: Consent, Readiness, and Sexual Health
A first sexual experience is a person’s first encounter with an activity they consider sexual and may involve questions of consent, readiness, health, and personal meaning.
STI Literacy: Testing, Prevention, Treatment, and Sexual Health
STI literacy is the ability to understand and use reliable information about sexually transmitted infections, including transmission, testing, prevention, treatment, and communication.
STI Prevention: Condoms, Testing, Vaccines, and Safer Sex
STI prevention includes condoms, testing, vaccination, HIV prevention, treatment, and communication to reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections.
Dual Protection: Pregnancy Prevention and STI Protection Together
Dual protection means using contraception in a way that addresses both pregnancy prevention and STI risk, often by combining condoms with another method.
Internal Condom: Use, Pregnancy Prevention, and STI Protection
An internal condom is a barrier placed inside the vagina that helps prevent pregnancy and reduces the risk of many sexually transmitted infections.
External Condom: Use, Pregnancy Prevention, and STI Protection
An external condom is a barrier worn over the penis that helps prevent pregnancy and reduces the risk of many sexually transmitted infections.
Sexual Decision-Making: Choice, Consent, Health, and Personal Values
Sexual decision-making is the process of considering desire, boundaries, information, values, risks, and consequences before making sexual choices.
Swinger: Meaning, Swinging, Consent, and Relationship Boundaries
Learn what a swinger is, how swinging differs from open relationships, polyamory, and cheating, and why consent, communication, and boundaries matter.
Standard Sexual Activity: Meaning, Social Norms, and Consent
Standard sexual activity means behavior treated as usual or accepted within a particular culture, relationship, institution, or research setting.