The Top 10
Lessons Not to Learn the Hard Way About Sexual Health are:
- STDs are sexually transmitted diseases.
- STDs may be treatable ( i.e. herpes) but all STDs are not curable (HIV/AIDS).
- STDs can go undetected offering no symptoms.
- Some undetected STDs cause irreparable damage to the body. Depending on the STD, damage may take place to the reproduction system causing sterility, to the eyes causing blindness, etc.
- HPV is a genital human papillomavirus and is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI). There are more than 40 HPV types that can infect the genital areas of males and females.
- Almost all cases of cervical dysplasia or cervical cancer* are caused by human papilloma virus (HPV).
- An unplanned pregnancy is a planned pregnancy resulting from using no birth control.
- Condoms are not 100% effective to prevent an STD or a pregnancy.
- Committed sexual relationships among single partners are a string of promiscuous sexual relationships over time..including that partner and all the partners that they have had and all the partners that the partners have had and so on. Infidelity in a marriage contributes to this string.
- Abstinence is the most effective to prevent the transmission of a sexually transmitted disease or sexually transmitted infection.
HPV Source
Information Source for this Post: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cervical
Dysplasia and Cervical Cancer Source Information for this Post: PubMed Health/National Center for Biotechnology Information
STD - General Information Source
for this Post: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
*Additional Reading: BlackDoctor.org - Six Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Cervical Cancer: http://blackdoctor.org/14965/how-to-prevent-cervical-cancer/
Repost from April 2011
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