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How Do People Get AIDS?

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  What Is HIV? HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks the immune system. AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) happens after someone has had HIV for many years. In AIDS, the immune system is severely weakened. People with AIDS get serious infections and health problems.   How Does HIV Spread? HIV spreads when infected blood, semen ("cum") or vaginal fluids enter the body. Because symptoms can be mild at first, people with HIV might not know they're infected. They can spread HIV to others without knowing it.   HIV can spread:   during sex (especially anal sex and vaginal sex) through sharing needles for injecting drugs or tattooing by getting stuck with a needle with an infected person's blood on it HIV also can pass from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding.   HIV does not spread through:   pee, poop, spit, throw-up, or sweat (as long as no blood is present) coughing or sneezing holding hands sharing eating utensils o

How Sex Toys Impact a Relationship?

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  How do you open up the conversation in a way that will get your partner on board with this idea? Include him in the choice of sex toys Alternately, the two of you can go to a sex shop together Using sex toys to enhance the sexual experience, whether you are going at it solo or with your partner, is no longer taboo. Today, sex toys are part of the cultural landscape, at least the sexual one.  From the cute and discreet little vibrating yellow duck you can “ play ” within your bath, to multi-function vibrators that look like they were designed by an astrophysicist, there is something on the adult toy market for everyone ’ s taste. Tempted to include a sex toy in your relationship, but unsure how sex toys impact a relationship? You are right to have the Sex Toy Talk with your partner before surprising him by pulling the latest Rabbit out of the proverbial hat. Your friends have convinced you of the amazing orgasms they are having now that they ’ ve brought sex toys into the bedroom.  Yo

Six questions women are embarrassed to ask about sex

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  Sex-shy? We are sure most of the women out there must have many of their sex questions unanswered still, because of being too embarrassed to ask them. But hey, there's no need to feel embarrassed before asking questions related to sex, well because they are as important as sex itself. So, all you shy girls, here's some help at hand. We bring to you six sex-related issues for women with their answers.   1 of 6   Can my partner fake orgasm? Is it normal? CAN MY PARTNER FAKE ORGASM? IS IT NORMAL? It’s only women who come to our mind when we think of fake orgasms. We are so stuck up with this that we forgot that men do it too. A study published in 2016, in Journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy, found that 30 per cent of North American men said that they do fake an orgasm some time or the other. The issues that cause men to fake orgasm are same as that of women. It can be due to the effect of alcohol, tiredness, stress or some medication.   But no orgasm doesn’t mean sex was any

What is sex education and what is its purpose?

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  Sex education is acquiring information about the development of our bodies, sexuality, sex, and sexual behavior   , sex position . Sex education aids people to get the information, motivation, and abilities to make the right decisions about sex and sexuality. Teenagers need this kind of information in order to make the right choices and protect themselves. There is controversy in whether sex education should be taught at schools, and often they teach abstinence only, but the fact that teens are not aware of this information leads to them making bad decisions on account of their ignorance. Sex education should be mandatory in all high-schools.     Sex education plays a major role in the reduction of teenage pregnancies. It has been proven that sex education can help to scale down teenage pregnancies and births. In 2002, researchers from the University of Washington did a study on heterosexual teens ages 15-19. This study was based on 1,719 teens. The results showed that 25% of teenage