To Your Sexual Health- Myths

Myth: You cannot get pregnant during your menses/period.
Fact: You CAN get pregnant while you are menstruating. Although it is rare and the chances are slim, the fact is ovulation can start before you actually stop bleeding or shortly after the period stops. If, you then have sex while you are still bleeding and by some rare chance you have started to ovulate then sperm can fertilize the egg, or, even less likely, the sperm lives long enough to fertilize the egg, if you start to ovulate right after your period. So it is possible but not likely.

Myth: Condoms protect you from ALL STIs.
Fact: Condoms protect you from STDs and STIs that are transmitted through bodily fluids such as HIV. However they do not protect from those that can be transmitted through just body contact such as HPV and herpes simplex

Myth: You can't get STDs or STIs from giving or receiving oral sex.
Fact: YOU can, its that simple. STDs like warm damp places and some of those STD/STIs are HPV, herpes simplex, gonorrhea, syphilis, and Hepatitis B, you can even get HIV from performing Oral sex, but the chances are very low.


Myth: You cannot get pregnant if the man pulls out before he ejaculates/cums/orgasms
Fact: Uhm, yeah you can and even though MANY of us women have been lucky, it is very much possible; Pre-cum is released when a guy gets aroused/horny/hard/etc.. and that pre-cum has sperm! yes it does, so you can get pregnant if one sperm is strong enough to swim to that egg and fertilize it.

These are some myths i thought needed to be clarified. Too many young persons end up with unwanted pregnancies and STIs because of a lack of knowledge. Knowledge is power, empower your self. Know.