Practicing Safer Sex
By Sharon Prince
Your NYC gynecologist should remind you that practicing safer sex is important than ever for anyone who is sexually active. Your Manhattan gynecologist should educate you on practicing behaviors that decrease the chance of contracting or transmitting sexually transmitted diseases. A sexually transmitted disease or STD, is a short-term or long-term disease that is transmitted through contact with blood, semen, and body fluid. STDs cause painful, impairing, chronic conditions that may require lifelong medical treatment. Safer sex is possible when STDs and how they are spread is understood. Some of these illnesses, such as human immunodeficiency virus infection, which causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome can be life threatening. Be sure to ask your NYC gynecologist to provide you as much information as possible. It may one day save your life.