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What's Sexual Health All About?

Sexual health is about having a healthy sense of your sexuality, having healthy sexual and reproductive organs, and feeling good about your sexuality and sexual experiences. It can be hard to feel you have good sexual health when society doesn’t seem to have a positive and respectful approach to your sexuality and when laws, social norms and/or cultures prevent all of our sexual rights from being respected, protected and fulfilled. Unfortunately we can’t snap our fingers and change this (though there’s plenty you can do in your community and activism to promote this change). But this makes it even more important for us to maintain our sexual health to the best of our ability.

Did you know?

  • When you drink alcohol or take drugs your decision making can be impaired. What seems like a great idea at the time might look a little differently the next morning. If you are going to have sex, make sure you use a condom and water-based lube.

  • The pill or spermicide does not protect you from contracting STIs or BBVs (Blood Borne Viruses)
  • Nearly half of sexually active high-school students do not use condoms regularly.
  • Condoms will protect you from 30 out of the 35 STIs in our society today.
  • Condoms do not protect against genital warts, lice, herpes, scabies or molluscum contagiosum.
  • Vomiting and diarrhoea can cause the pill to be ineffective.
  • Don’t be another statistic, always use protection when you have sex!

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