Want to have great sex? Have safe sex!
There are lots of ways you can make sex safer. Safer sex is all about protecting yourself and your partners from sexually transmitted infections. if you’re going to have sex, making it safer sex is the best way to help you avoid getting or passing a sexually transmitted disease( STD).
How To Have Safe Sex
For vaginal, anal, and oral sex, you should use condoms. Safe sex is having sexual contact while protecting yourself and your sexual partner against sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and unplanned pregnancy. According to Planned Parenthood “There are lots of ways you can make sex safer. One of the best ways is by using a barrier — like condoms, internal condoms, dental dams, and/or latex or nitrile gloves — every single time you have oral, anal, or vaginal sex, or do anything that can pass sexual fluids (like sharing sex toys). Barriers protect you and your partner from sexual fluids and some skin-to-skin contact, which can both spread STDs.”
Other Tips for Safer Sex
Getting tested for common infections and having treatment if necessary, especially if you have a new partner is a great way to have safe sex. Having sex with only one partner, when neither of you has any STIs, is the safest way to have sex.STDs are usually passed from one person to another during oral, anal, or vaginal sex. There are lots of different STDs. Some are carried in body fluids like semen (cum), vaginal fluids, and blood. Others can be passed just from skin to skin touching an infected body area. Sexual contact that doesn’t involve the exchange of semen, vaginal fluids or blood between partners is considered to be safe sex.For vaginal, anal and oral sex, you should use condomsIf you touch your partner’s genitals with your hands, wash your hands before touching your own genitals, mouth, or eyes to avoid passing sexual fluids. If you’re sharing sex toys, make sure to wash the toys with soap and water before they touch another person’s body.
Alterrnative Sexual Activities
few totally risk-free ways to get sexual pleasure and be intimate with another person, like masturbating, dry humping (aka grinding) with clothes on, and touching your partner’s genitals with your hands (as long as you don’t get any of their sexual fluids on or in your mouth or genitals).Lower risk activities include kissing, using sex toys with a partner,and oral sex . But it’s still possible to get certain STDs from these things, so using condoms and dams to avoid contact with skin and fluids whenever you can helps you stay healthy.