Category Archives: Smart. Safe. Sex.

Bravely Into the AIDS Space

From an award-winning ad campaign from France: “Explore. Just protect yourself.” (via Broadsheet)

Recycled Condoms as HIV/AIDS Risk - Hoax, or No?

Chinese state media (I know, reputable) report that condoms being recycled into hairbands are posing an HIV/AIDS transmission risk. Really? HIV/AIDS can only live outside of the human body for at most 15 days in highly-controlled laboratory settings, and fluids lose 90-95% of their viral load through exposure to air. For HPV, [...]

Abstinence Only “Education,” from .gov to YouTube

Via Voices of American Sexuality, a PSA from government-run 4parents.gov, with a whole raft of young people just begging their parents to teach them to wait until marriage to have sex:

Jenna Bush notwithstanding, of course.