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Educating Your Teen about Sex

sex education for teens

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Teenagers of today are easily influenced by their peers. Whatever they see in the environment, they tend to adopt. The media, movies and the internet can easily poison their minds and therefore take away their innocence. Parents have the same concerns everywhere around the world. Their main aim is to protect their children from, unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases and sexual predators which could ruin their children’s reputation leaving them with no future at all. Is sex read more…

Protect Yourself from STDs

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Lately, I’ve been enjoying watching these erotic movies wherein teenagers are engaging in hot, wild sex. I found it entertaining watching them and I feel amazed how some really young individuals could have done some hard stuff which I haven’t done in my younger years. On the other hand, having multiple sex partners have become a trend between youngsters nowadays. People who have been infected with sexually transmitted diseases around the world are also increasing in number. read more…

Lymphogranuloma Venereum (LVG)

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Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), widely known as lymphopathia venerea, lymphogranuloma inguinale, tropical bubo, climatic bubo, poradenitis inguinales, strumous bubo, and Durand-Nicolas-Favre disease is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the Chlamydia trachomatis LGV strain, the persistent serotypes L1, L2, or L3 of Chlamydia trachomatis. It starts as an acute genital infection that eventually develops into a chronic crippling illness like genital elephantiasis or anorectal stricture. Further, the organism may possibly spread systemically to cause constitutional symptom.

Treatment And Prevention

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Trichomoniasis can simply be treated and cured by Metronidazole (Flagyl®) which is known to be the only drug that can cure it. The prescription usually is in a single or seven day dose often through mouth. The person taking medication should also avoid alcohol at once after treatment, since a chemical reaction can result to nausea and vomiting. The most common side effects of this kind of treatment are mild nausea, vomiting, and metallic taste in the read more…

Symptoms And Complications

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The symptoms normally appear 4 to 20 days after the infection. In females, the usual manifestations are profuse, frothy, gray or yellow-green vaginal discharge, occasionally with bleeding, an unpleasant vaginal odor, and vulvovaginal discomfort and itching. Other symptoms include perennial painful and frequent urination, vulvovaginal swelling, discomfort during sexual intercourse, and abdominal pain. Cervical hemorrhaging may also be present however only on rare situations.
In males the symptoms are rare and may just include the usual thin pale read more…