Do You Have A Sexually Transmitted Disease-STI

STDs, sexually transmitted disease, sometimes called sexually transmitted infections STIs are a person to person infection that spread through intimate contact. Men and women from any background and all ages who are having sex can be infected with an STD and cases are increasingly more common among teenagers. As there are higher risk groups like teens for getting STDs, it is very important to educate about protection. STDs are a very serious health problem, sometimes skin problems like penis papules can be mistaken for genital warts or some other STD but are in fact harmless and nothing but an aesthetic embarrassment. Infertility (Chlamydia) and even death (HIV/AIDS) among other infections can be the result of contracting an STD.

How STDs Are Spreading Out Of Control

It is very wrong to think that an STD infection can only be spread through sexual intercourse. Herpes, genital warts can be caught when the area is infected and then skin to skin contact is made. Many people think that anal or oral sex to be safe but in fact the bacteria and viruses that cause the many different types of STD can infect the body through the smallest of tears or cuts in the genital area or the anus and mouth. There are increasingly amounts of mouth-laryngeal cancers being diagnosed in young men due to oral sex with women carrying the HPV virus. This is just one of the many serious problems that STDs cause because you can’t always tell if some one has an infection. Some do not even know they have an STD and can pass on the infection to partners of newly forming relationship without either partner realizing it.

To avoid the possible infection of an STD you must follow some basic principles.

• Becoming sexually active at a very young age
• There are statistics showing high amounts of young people being infected with an STD because they start sexual activity at a very young age.

Regularly changing sexual partners

• Any form of sexual intimate contact, not just intercourse with many different partners is at very high risk compared to those who stay in a steady trustworthy relationship. Those who have relationships with both male and females also have a higher chance of STDs and therefore more risk to others and passing them on.

Unprotected sex

• The use of condoms is the best possible way to help reduce risk of STD infection and is a very reliable form of birth control. There are some other excellent forms of birth control methods which include diaphragms, pills, injections, and implants to name but a few, but these will not give protection from STDs. There is of course one way to avoid contacting any sexual diseases and that is abstinence or outercourse which does not involve vaginal intercourse and is also the very best form of birth control.