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Sign up with Facebook"Jane Bogart, M.A.: For the most part, your doctor, your medical provider, your family planning clinic, when you go for a check-up they're not going to automatically test you for sexually transmitted diseases or infections. You have to ask for tha...
Hi. I'm Jane Bogart. I'm a health educator with a specialty in sexuality education, and I have a masters degree from Teacher's College, Columbia University, where I'm currently pursuing my doctorate. And I'm the author of "Sexploration: The Ultima...
STD stands for sexually transmitted disease. STI stands for sexually transmitted infection. Often the terms are used interchangeably and the truth is when people are talking about them most of the time they're talking about the same thing. One of ...
Jennifer Matthews: When you look at Heidi Schran and Selene Carey, you might think they're sisters. Not only do they look alike, but they also talk about everything -- even sex. Selene Carey: If I wanted to have sex with someone, I would ask her. ...
You can do an internet search on any one of a number of sexually transmitted infections, an image search, and you will get pictures. For the most part, the pictures that are used in textbooks, the pictures that are used to teach about sexually tra...
Dan and Jenn give advice about the question on whether there is a risk of STDs when both partners are virgins.
The first thing to know about syphilis is that is it a bacterial infection and as such is completely curable. Syphilis occurs in three stages. The first stage is primary stage and that stage is where you tend to have some symptoms and the symptoms...
Gonorrhea is a bacterial infection and as such is completely curable with antibiotics. Because it's often asymptomatic you can't always tell that you have it. In order to know that you have it you have to be tested so will you go to a medical prov...
"The first thing to know about Trichomoniasis, sometimes called Trich, is that it affects mainly women and that it's the main cause of vaginitis which is an infection of the vaginal canal. Trichomoniasis is a one-celled organism or a protozoan. Th...
Condoms are incredibly affective in preventing the transmission of STIs or STDs. They're a great barrier method, they protect you skin to skin, they protect the transmission of infectious fluid. Although no method is a hundred percent affective, t...
Statistics show that 50% of all Americans will be diagnosed with an STI or STD by the time they reach adulthood. So that shows you in some way how common that STI's and STD's are. The most common STI or STD in America is Chlamydia and the second m...