Information and resources on safer sex, including methods for practicing safer sex, assessing risk of sexual practices, and decision making strategies for making sexual choices.
Dental dams can be used as a barrier for oral genital contact to reduce the risk of transmission of STDs.
When used properly dental dams can provide protection from sexually transmitted infections and make sex safer. Here’s how to properly use dental dams.
Can you get a sexually transmitted infection (STD) from using a sex toy? How can you practice safer sex with sex toys to reduce your risk?
Alcohol and sex, safer sex, risky sex, sex and drinking, alcohol consumption, alcohol abuse, alcoholism
Describes the controversial ABC approach to HIV prevention that emphasizes abstinence, monogamy, and condom use as a method of HIV prevention.
Explains the STD risks of oral sex and describes the different levels of risk and methods of transmission, with suggestions on ways to make oral sex safer.
Covers key sex products that are usually made of latex and offers non latex alternatives, including non latex condoms, non latex dental dams, non latex gloves, and non latex sex toys.
Tips on how to assess the potential risk of new or ongoing sexual situations. Questions to ask yourself to help develop a risk assessment for you and support you in making the best sexual choices for yourself.
Defining sexual risk, how to consider taking sexual risks and keeping yourself safe from sexually risky behaviors.
General safer sex guidelines on the safety of a variety of common sexual behaviors from masturbation to anal sex. Includes comments on the danger of generalizing about the risk of sexual behaviors.
An expanded definition of safer sex, including taking care of our bodies and minds as we engage in sexual behaviors. Suggesting ways to think about your sex life to make it more fulfilling and healthier.
Instructions on how to put on and remove the female condom.
Answers the question how do I put a condom on with my mouth, with step by step instructions on how to put a condom on with your mouth.
A step by step explanation on how to put on and take off a condom. With links to illustrations on how to put on a condom properly
Describes what phthalates, which are used in the manufacturing of many sex toys, are, and concerns that have been raised about phthalates by scientists, consumer groups, and the media.
Outlines the problems with abstinence-only sex education.
Summarizes research linking dental health and sexual health.
