HIV can be transmitted through oral, anal, or genital sexual contact. How much of a risk of transmission any given sexual exposure carries depends on what type of contact it is (see Chapter 5 for a description of safe and unsafe sexual practices) and how infectious a partner is. People with HIV are particularly infectious [...]
Anyone can become infected with gonorrhea, and although the overall number of people infected in the United States each year is decreasing, among young people the number is increasing. About a million people are infected each year in this country, more commonly young, sexually active persons and those with multiple sexual partners. Also at higher [...]
Here’s the truth about the risk for sexually transmitted infections in woman-to-woman sex as we know it today: Some infections—such as herpes, syphilis, and genital warts—can be transmitted by genital rubbing and do not require heterosexual penetrative intercourse for transmission. Therefore, if two women engage in genital rubbing, one of the women may acquire an [...]
After a casual encounter with a woman he had met in the local tavern about a week earlier, Darryl became worried when he began having burning with urination and a discharge from the opening of his penis. Both Darryl and his partner had been drinking, and they didn’t use a condom for either oral or [...]
The prostate is a gland that sits at the base of the bladder and secretes fluids that are one component of semen. Because the urethra (the tube that carries urine from the bladder) runs through the prostate into the center of the penis, any swelling of the prostate caused by infection, inflammation, or cancer can [...]