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In the News (Sat 30 Aug 08)

  
  Safe Sex and the Facts
I must now take a hard look at the message of safe sex which is being taught to teens at school and through the media.
Studies are beginning to show that school-based sex education that includes condom use as the central message, does not work.
Sex is a wonderful gift, but if uncontrolled, it has a great capacity for evil as well as good.
www.leaderu.com /orgs/probe/docs/safesex.html   (3045 words)

  
  Safe Sex: What Does It Really Mean? - Men's Health News Story - WSB Atlanta
Safe sex means taking precautions during sex that can keep you from getting a sexually transmitted disease (STD), or from giving an STD to your partner.
Ideally, before having sex with a new partner, each of you should get screened for STDs, especially HIV and hepatitis B, and share the test results with one another.
In summary, safe sex requires prior planning and good communication between partners.
www.wsbtv.com /menshealth/6862482/detail.html   (962 words)

  
  Urban Dictionary: safe sex
Using a condom or pill during sex so a baby is not conceived, an STD is not transmitted.
Donald discovered that safe sex is not really safe after his girlfriend, Katherine, choked on his condom and died.
Safe sex is in the palm of your hand.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=safe+sex&defid=769315   (308 words)

  
 Safe dating and safe sex - Help the Aged
Not having to worry about unwanted pregnancies does not mean that you should throw caution to the wind: sexually transmitted diseases are on the increase in the UK, and it's not all down to young people.
Sexually transmitted diseases and infections (STDs/STIs) are on the increase in the UK with cases of HIV, chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhoea all going up mainly because too many people don't practise safe sex.
The most common reason for forgetting to practise safer sex is drinking too much alcohol.
www.helptheaged.org.uk /en-gb/AdviceSupport/HealthAdvice/HealthyAgeing/SexLaterLife/SafeDatingAndSafeSex/default.htm   (291 words)

  
 Is Safe Sex really Safe?
Safe sex is often defined as intercourse that either (or both) prevents the transmission of sexual disease, and/or the possibility of pregnancy.
Safe sex is all about keeping yourself, and your partner, protected from the complications of unwanted pregnancies and STD’s.
For males in particular, another problem with practicing safe sex is remembering to take the time to (a) have a condom ready, (b) know how to use it properly, and (c) take the time to put it on.
www.4-men.org /sexually-transmitted-disease/safe-sex.html   (558 words)

  
 Is Safe Sex Really Safe? - free article courtesy of ArticleCity.com
Safe sex is all about keeping yourself, and your partner, protected from the complications of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease.
Although the concept of safe sex seems easy enough to understand, more and more people -- young people in particular -- seem to be missing the point, or missing the concept of how to accomplish safe sex.
In a very practical sense, however, although a condom is typically worn by the male partner during heterosexual intercourse (and typically by both partners in a homosexual one), the responsibility for proper condom-IQ is borne by both partners.
www.articlecity.com /articles/men/article_63.shtml   (605 words)

  
 Safe Sex?
Aside from the emotional and psychological implications of your romantic encounter, realize that the condom is not a 100% guarantee of safety against AIDS for the same reason the condom is not a 100% guarantee of safety against pregnancy.
She is past president of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists{1} and once asked this question to 500 marriage and family therapists in Chicago: "How many of you recommend condoms for AIDS protection?"
To summarize, the only truly safe sex is the lovemaking that occurs in a faithful monogamous relationship where both partners are HIV negative.
www.leaderu.com /offices/rusty_wright/safesex.html   (2861 words)

  
 Gillis Triplett - Is "Safe Sex" Really Safe?
Whether or not to practice safe sex is a life-altering decision that you must base solely on facts!
Safe sex is the sexual activity (especially sexual intercourse) with the use of measures (such as latex condoms) to prevent pregnancy and stop the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (especially AIDS).
Hence the term, “Safe Sex.” By all accounts, the belief in “Safe Sex,” originated from a number of possible sources.
www.gillistriplett.com /rel101/articles/safesex.html   (2572 words)

  
 Safe sex :: swinging safe sex
Safe sex for singing lifestyle is very important today.
During swinging sex activities the best and easiest preventive is the use of condoms whether this is vaginal, anal or oral sex.
If you have multiple partners for swinging you should get STD tested every 4 to 6 months (principal key for safe sex bettwen adult swingers) for your own peace of mind and to catch STD’s in their ‘infancy’, by so doing many can be easily cured and prevent.
www.america-swingers.com /safe-swinging.html   (399 words)

  
 Safe Sex.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Contraceptives and Agendas: A major thrust of pro-abortion rhetoric has been the assumption that if young people had access to contraceptives and were educated in their use, abortion would cease to be a problem.
Sex and Meaning Sex has a deeper meaning than the media portrays it.
Women and Sex For women sex often means so much more than the simple physical side.
www.abortionfacts.com /safe_sex/safe_sex.asp   (174 words)

  
 On Her Own, One Woman Campaigns For Safe Sex
Among sex workers it had risen in 2001 to 17 percent in Jakarta, 26.5 percent in one place in the far east of the country, and 8 percent in an area in the far west, the commission reports.
Often, sex workers do not stay in one place for longer than a year - mobility is thus a factor in the pandemic's spread.
U.N. figures say sex workers have an average of seven partners in a week - low compared to sex workers in Thailand at height of the pandemic there.
www.aegis.com /news/ips/2002/IP020809.html   (1175 words)

  
 AIDS IN INDIA / Push for safe sex in red-light districts
Sex is a 24-hour industry in districts such as Falkland Road, where even in midafternoon women stand impassively, like mannequins, outside of row after row of curtained storefronts.
In the dreary world of commercial sex in Bombay, however, it is difficult to imagine the pressures facing prostitutes, who work there not out of choice, but for survival in a land of extreme poverty.
AIDS is a modern disease that has intruded on an ancient culture of commercial sex, where eroticism is enshrined in some of India's myriad religious traditions.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/07/05/AIDS.TMP&type=printable   (1702 words)

  
 Safe sex during pregnancy: 10 things you need to know
Sex is a wonderful way for partners to remain intimate during pregnancy.
Water or air (or any foreign objects) in the vagina should not be part of any sex play during pregnancy.
If a woman is at high risk for preterm labor, orgasm and intercourse should be avoided until the doctor or midwife has told you it is safe.
parenting.ivillage.com /pregnancy/psex/0,,midwife_9ztg,00.html   (255 words)

  
 What Is Safe Sex   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Equating condom use with safe sex is ignorant euphemistic nonsense.
But sex, as it was de-signed by our Creator, was designed to join and bring into physical, emotional and spiritual unity a man and a woman.
To equate safe sex with the use of a little roll of elastic plastic only shows the degree of gross ignorance that our society still has about sex.
www.truthmagazine.com /archives/volume39/GOT039094.htm   (509 words)

  
 Safe Sex License: Get Carded in Bed   (Site not responding. Last check: )
so is that person has never been tested, you are exposing yourself to every person that individual has had unprotected sex with for the last 9 years or more, but with the ssl, you could shorten that 9 year window to a matter of months.
i must first say that the safe sex license (ssl) was not created to guarantee a persons status nor is it a license to go raw.
one, many teens that are having sex, or college kis, or people that are just plain poor are still having sex but are not going to want to pay 20 bucks to get a "sex" liscense.
www.bet.com /Community/SafeSexLicense.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic&WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished&mb=1   (1696 words)

  
 Safer Sex
Sex in a monogamous relationship where neither party is infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) is believed to be "safe".
They believe the only way to be truly safe is to abstain -- because all forms of sexual contact carry some risk.
For example, kissing is thought to be a safe activity, but herpes, and other diseases can be contracted this way.
www.umm.edu /women/safesex.htm   (386 words)

  
 Safer Sex Guidelines   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Abstinence may be the only true form of "safe" sex, as all forms of sexual contact carry some risk.
However, many parents are unsure how to begin talking about safe sex with their adolescents.
Topics that are appropriate for a safe sex discussion may include: STDs and prevention, peer pressure to have sex, birth control, different forms of sexuality, and date rape.
www.stlouischildrens.org /tabid/88/itemid/711/Safer-Sex-Guidelines.aspx   (575 words)

  
 Safe Sex
"Safe sex" has, however, become short hand for "biologically safe sex." As a culture we have, understandably, paid an enormous amount of attention recently to what it means to be biologically safe sexually.
Safe sex comes from the regular investment over a long period of time of love, tenderness, playfulness, respect, understanding and shared life.
A second kind of boundary that is key to emotionally safe sex is the boundary between the present and the past.
www.nacronline.com /dox/library/daler/safesex.shtml   (874 words)

  
 CIGNA - Safe Sex   (Site not responding. Last check: )
If you are in a relationship, delay having sex until you are physically and emotionally prepared, have agreed to only have sex with each other, and have both been tested for STDs.
Even though a sex partner doesn't have symptoms of an STD, he or she may still be infected.
Every time you add a new sex partner, you are being exposed to all of the diseases that all of their partners may have.
www.cigna.com /healthinfo/hw190468spec.html   (584 words)

  
 Real Time, Real World Sex Ed: Safe-Sex Instruction to Friends -- Help.
My question is how do I approach the topic of safe sex to them, without offending or sending the wrong messages to them.
Even though we've had lively discussions about sex, I'm pretty sure that if I were to start passing out condoms to them and/or preaching the joys of the pill, they might take it the wrong way.
I became the "sex advice girl" long before I was sexually active because I knew so much about safe sex.
www.scarleteen.com /cgi-bin/forum/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=next_topic;f=3;t=002137;go=older   (1120 words)

  
 safe sex from www.rolls-royceandbentley.co.uk
To summarize, the only truly safe sex is the lovemaking that occurs in a...
Safe sex is about risk reduction, not complete risk elimination.
Although safe sex practices can be used as a form of family planning, the term...
www.rolls-royceandbentley.co.uk /safe_sex   (283 words)

  
 Brooklyn College Personal Counseling   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Safe Sex means conducting your sex life in a way that will minimize the possibility of exposure to a life-threatening, sexually transmitted disease such as AIDS.
Safe sex techniques work by minimizing direct contact with the body fluids of your partner.
Sex while high on alcohol or other drugs is not safe because it affects judgment and lowers inhibitions about engaging in dangerous practices.
pc.brooklyn.cuny.edu /SAFESEX.HTM   (429 words)

  
 HIV and men - safe sex
Safe sex is sex where semen, vaginal secretions or blood are not exchanged between sexual partners.
Oral sex with either a man or woman is considered a 'low risk' activity for transmission of HIV.
For extra safety, people may choose to use a condom during oral sex performed on the man, or a dental dam or similar protection (such as clear plastic cling wrap – but not the 'microwave safe' variety which has tiny holes in it) during oral sex performed on the woman.
www.tripdatabase.com /spider.html?itemid=276595   (1130 words)

  
 Lesbians, Bisexual Women and Safe Sex
Sex between women is not always safe, and therefore women need to know the risks and how to protect themselves.
Sex toys, whatever, are fine, too – just put a condom over them, and if you switch them from one person’s body to another’s – change the condom.
Oral sex is low risk- but there is increased risk if woman has cuts or sores on her mouth, or her partner receiving oral sex has sores on her genitals or is having her periods.
www.avert.org /lesbiansafesex.htm   (1002 words)

  
 HIV and gay men - safe sex
Remember that the risk goes both ways – for example, it is commonly believed that only the partner who is penetrated (the 'bottom') is at risk, but the HIV virus can be transmitted to the partner who penetrates (the 'top') via small cuts and abrasions on his penis.
Oral sex – there are a small number of recorded cases of people getting HIV from performing oral sex and taking ejaculate into their mouth.
Sexual activities that are considered safe include kissing, cuddling, stroking, massage, masturbation, mutual masturbation, oral sex with no ejaculate in the mouth, and anal sex with a condom using water based lubricant.
www.tripdatabase.com /spider.html?itemid=276594   (938 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner News - Valentine's Day and safe sex - Wednesday | February 15, 2006
This only helps to confuse sex with love, but then I guess that confusion is already rife.
So maybe the AIDS prevention people know what they are doing to place Safe Sex Week every year in the week containing Valentine's Day.
Sex as a commodity demeans both the buyer and the seller, and blocks deep authentic love.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20060215/cleisure/cleisure4.html   (621 words)

  
 What happened to safe sex? - Opinion - theage.com.au
An international comparison of sexual health programs in France, the Netherlands, Australia and the US found that sexually transmitted infection rates are much lower in France and the Netherlands, where school-based sexual health education is mandatory.
In other words, having sex is being promoted but having it safely and healthily is not.
We seem to be ambivalent about sex, as the La Trobe University landmark 2003 sexual health study, Sex in Australia, points out: "It is everywhere you look, it permeates every aspect of contemporary popular culture.
www.theage.com.au /news/opinion/what-happened-to-safe-sex/2007/01/08/1168104917856.html   (749 words)

  
 Teenagers Safe Sex
There is an increased focus on sex in the media, menstruation begins earlier and people marry much later.
sex is a normal and healthy part of life, a source of comfort and pleasure and can be part of a relationship with someone we care about
The WA Health Department runs a youth safe sex campaign and can provide information on safe sex, how to talk about it with your teenager and where to get extra information, counselling or personal advice.
www.indianchild.com /parenting/teenagers/teenagers_safe_sex.htm   (320 words)

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