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| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | The sexual activities that reduce or eliminate the exchange of body fluids that can transmit HIV(e. g. , semen, vaginal or cervical fluid), often by means of barriers(e. g. , latex condoms, gloves, dental dams). Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Safer sex (also called safe sex) is a term describing practices designed to reduce the risk of catching sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Sexual abstinence obviously virtually eliminates the risk of STDs, but also the possibility of natural reproduction and the pleasure of sex.
Most attention has focussed on controlling the HIV (AIDS) virus, but each STD presents a different situation.
The spermicide Nonoxynol-9 has been claimed to reduce the likelihood of STD transmission, however more evidence is needed to verify this, and it cannot be recommended for this purpose at this time.
With the realization that risk of transmission of sexually transmitted diseases in various sexual activities is a continuum rather than a simple dichotomy of risky/safe, US health workers began to talk of "safer sex" rather than "safe sex." However, in most other countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany, the term "safe sex" is still mainly used by sex educators, perhaps in the recognition that with the strict adherence to these techniques the risks of catching the more dangerous STDs are quite low.
Some conservatives object to the "safer sex" movement on the grounds that it promotes what they hold to be immoral behavior, namely sex outside of marriage. They believe that the best way to avoid sexual disease is abstinence before marriage followed by lifelong mutual fidelity thereafter.
In the U.S, former United States Surgeon General Koop and some others have claimed that condoms are ineffective against HIV transmission during anal sex, holding that condoms are somewhat permeable to the tiny HIV virus. These claims have been disputed by medical researchers, who generally view correctly used condoms as effective protection. Some studies have shown that, even with the best of intentions, determined condom users sometimes forget to put them on before sex, so that the transmission rate remains disturbingly high. Advocates of safe sex education point out that it has to start at an early age to be effective, a notion which arouses even heavier opposition from conservatives given the taboo of child sexuality.
Recommended practices
Note that most methods of contraception (birth control) other than the barrier methods mentioned above are not effective at preventing the spread of STDs. Change in terminology
Controversy
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Safer sex."
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Zeitfür safer sex. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | 245a Safer Sex Regel Nr.1: Bumsen immermit gummi... Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Sex And The Single Student : Safer sex means talking before you act. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Hot 'n' healthy : safer sex. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Haltung zeigen - safer sex. : stop AIDS. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Liebe ohne angst. safer sex. : stop AIDS. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Symbol für Sicherheit. safer sex. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | AIDS kills practice safer sex. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | They don't have safer sex just because it's safer. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Safer sex. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | Although sexual abstinence is a desirable objective, programs must include instruction on safer sex behaviors. (references) | |
Effective interventions with people who are HIV positive can enable them to practice safer sex and safer needle use and thus help to contain the HIV epidemic. (references) | ||
These programs include (1) information about HIV/AIDS and (2) building skills to use condoms and to negotiate the interpersonal challenges of safer sex. Effective safer sex programs have been developed for men who have sex with men, for women, and for adolescents. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
safer sex | 59 |
safer sex sex | 4 |
oral safer sex | 4 |
condom safer sex | 4 |
disease safer sex sexually transmitted | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "SAFER SEX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | sikker sex. (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | safer sex, veilig vrijen. (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | turvaseksi, turvallinen seksi. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | safer sex. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Safer Sex. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ασφαλές σεξ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | sesso sicuro (safe sex). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | afersay exsay sexo más seguro. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-r-s-s-x" | |
-2 letters: erases, feases, sarees. | |
-3 letters: arses, eases, erase, erses, fares, faxes, fears, fease, feres, fesse, frass, frees, rases, raxes, reefs, rexes, safer, safes, saree, saxes, sears, seers, seres, serfs, sexes. | |
-4 letters: ares, arfs, arse, axes, ears, ease, eras, eses, exes, fare, fear, fees, fere, fess, frae, free, rase, reef, rees, refs, safe, sear, seas. | |
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