Sexual and reproductive anatomy, intimacy, safer sex and contraception, STDs, fertility treatment, LGBTQIA+ health, and treatments for sexual problems.
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Safer sex can help you reduce your risk for exposure to sexually transmitted infections (STIs). STIs are spread by sexual contact with an infected person. This can occur through vaginal, anal, or oral sex, and genital touching. STIs are also called sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs. Learn how to have safer sex and when to get tested.
Ah, babies. They’re adorable, but that doesn’t mean you want one right now. Thankfully, there’s birth control. But the options are endless. Learn more about different birth control methods and tips on how to choose one that is right for you.
Far more common in women than in men, urinary tract infections are as unpleasant as they are annoying. The good news is that they are highly treatable. Read more to learn how you can prevent a UTI.
Self-care can be a hot bath with candles, Netflix with a face mask, yoga under the sun, or sleeping in on a Saturday morning. How about a sheet-grabbing, toe-curling orgasm with yourself? Yes, yes, oh yes – self-pleasure is self-care too.
Sexual health is well-being in body and mind around sex and sexuality, at every age. The overview covers how sex works, the role of the mind, what can go wrong, teen sexual health and talking to children about sex, sex and travel, and sexuality in later life.
The biology of sexual pleasure involves body and mind together. It covers what sex is and how it works, libido and orgasm, the clitoris, masturbation and oral sex, and the part the mind plays in sexual health.
Sexual and reproductive anatomy takes in the organs and hormones of sex and reproduction, which mature at puberty. The female side covers the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, vagina, clitoris, breasts and the menstrual cycle; the male side the penis, testes, prostate gland, sperm and testosterone.
Sexual and reproductive diseases and disorders affect sexual function, fertility and the reproductive organs. In women they range from pelvic pain, endometriosis, uterine fibroids and vaginal infections to gynecologic cancers; in men, from erectile dysfunction and low testosterone to prostate disease and testicular cancer.
Sexual Problems in Women 
Pelvic Pain 
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease 
Female Infertility 
Menopause and Sexuality 
Menopause 
Endometriosis 
Gynecologic Cancers 
Vaginal Yeast Infections 
Bacterial Vaginosis Vaginitis 
Vulvodynia 
Vulvar Disorders 
Reproductive Health and the Workplace 
Sexual Health Issues in Women With Cancer 
Breast Cancer 
Vaginal Cancer Pelvic Organ Prolapse 
Pelvic Support Problems 
HPV 
HPV and Cancer 
Uterine Fibroids 
Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome 
Cystocele 
Primary Ovarian Insufficiency 
Cervical Cancer 
Endometrial Cancer 
Uterine Cancer 
Ovarian Cancer 
Vulvar Cancer 
Vaginal Douching 
Women and Body Image 
Female Circumcision 
Sexual Problems in Men 
Sexual Health Issues in Men with Cancer 
Men's Reproductive Health 
Premature Ejaculation 
Erectile Dysfunction 
Male Infertility 
Andropause 
Penis Disorders 
Postorgasmic Illness Syndrome 
Prostate Diseases 
Prostatitis 
Enlarged Prostate 
Low Testosterone 
Prostate Cancer 
Testicular Disorders 
Testicular Cancer 
Cryptorchidism 
Perineal Injury in Males 
Peyronie's Disease Safer sex lowers the risk of STDs, and contraception prevents pregnancy. Topics range from male and female condoms, birth control methods and emergency contraception to tubal ligation and vasectomy, unplanned and teen pregnancy, and abortion, including medication abortion.
LGBTQIA+ health looks at the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual people. It covers gay and bisexual men's health and sexuality, lesbian sexuality, gender-affirming care and health disparities among LGBTQ+ youth.
Healthy intimacy rests on consent and respect, and abuse breaks both. It covers sexual consent, teen sexuality and talking to children about sex, and abuse from dating violence and intimate partner violence to emotional abuse, stalking, sexual coercion, rape and date rape drugs.
Sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs, pass from person to person through sexual contact. They include chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, trichomoniasis, genital herpes and HPV, which can cause genital warts. Other topics include STI testing, safer sex and how STDs affect women and pregnancy.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases 
Herpes HPV 
Gonorrhea 
Chlamydia Infections 
Pregnancy and STIs 
HIV Medicines and Side Effects 
Syphilis 
Genital Herpes 
Genital Warts 
Sex and Travel 
Trichomoniasis 
Chlamydia in Women 
STI Testing 
Women and STIs 
HIV and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) 
Safer Sex 
Syphilis and Women 
Women and Genital Herpes 
Sexual Health: When Things Go Wrong 
Chancroid Assisted reproductive technology (ART) uses medical procedures to help people with infertility have a baby. It covers ovarian stimulation and intrauterine insemination, IVF and single-embryo transfer, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, egg donation, surrogates and gestational carriers, and fertility preservation.
Treatments for sexual health range from lifestyle changes and therapies for sexual problems to surgery on the reproductive organs. They include supplements for sexual enhancement, vasectomy, tubal ligation, hysterectomy, orchiopexy for undescended testicles, hormone therapy for cancer and breast reconstruction after mastectomy.
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