45 million Americans carry Genital Herpes. 650,000 Americans have Gonorrhea. Some 20 million people have Genital Warts and 4 million Americans have Chlamydia. With these staggering statistics, one would think the safest sex to have would be to masturbate alone or abstain from sex altogether. Now, those are both two of the safest kinds of sex to have, but we are all humans and we all, to some extent, need to engage in sexual play with another human being. So, here is a brief list of safe and unsafe types of sexual play.
Totally Safe Play consists of massaging, hugging, mutual masturbation (as long as your touching your own genitals), kissing without exchanging saliva, dry humping, talking dirty, engaging in voyeurism, dirty dancing, phone sex, cyber sex, using sex toys (if sharing make sure you change condoms between uses), and showering together as long as you don’t exchange body fluids.
Somewhat Safe Play consists of French kissing, intercourse (vaginal or anal) with a condom, fisting with a glove, cunnilingus with a dental dam or other type of barrier, fellatio with a condom, rimming with latex barrier and any finger penetration (vaginal or anal) with a latex glove or finger cot.
Activities that would be considered Somewhat Unsafe Play would consist of cunnilingus without a barrier, any finger penetration (vaginal or anal) without a latex glove or finger cot, fellatio without a condom, sharing sex toys without cleaning them or changing condoms in between uses, fisting without a glove, rimming without a latex barrier and water sports (golden showers).
Activities that are definitely considered Unsafe Play would be any kind of intercourse (vaginal or anal) without a condom, any activity that would cause a person to bleed and cunnilingus during menstruation without a barrier.
Are you a sexually active person with many partners? Do you engage in all or many of these activities? Have you asked your partner(s) if he/she is free from all STDs? Is your partner(s) free from all STDs? If you answered “yes” to the last two questions, then you’re in good shape. If you answered “no” to either of the last two questions then you better start to practice all of the Totally Safe Play activities until you find out those answers. There are just too many people out there that are infected with some type of STD. If you’re clean, then do your best to stay that way. No sexual pleasure is worth the life long fear or life long pain of living with an STD.
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