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Stay sexy, but safe, when blowing off steam
Health
Issue date: 2/7/08
As school starts up again, so too will the times of pulling all-nighters and using Red Bulls as meal substitutes.
Since Hopkins students generally don't ditch exams in order to be less stressed, the second best way to alleviate stress is sex.
OK, a hot shower, going to the gym, chocolate or whatever else makes you happy will work, too. Pleasure makes your body release endorphins - natural pain-alleviators and happiness-makers.
Nothing adds more stress, however, then being blindsided by the negative effects of sex. If you're going to use sex as your recreational endorphin-producer to escape stress, watch out for these possible problems:
1. Pregnancy. Unless you really want it, avoid pregnancy. You know the drill. Use a condom, pill, patch or ring. Or get sterilized. Just make sure you use contraception.
2. Chlamydia. Caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, this STI can be transmitted through oral, vaginal or anal sex. Chlamydia has no symptoms in up to 75 percent of infected women and half of infected men. Both sexes can experience unusual discharge or pain on urination.
In women, the infection first attacks the cervix and urethra. If the infection spreads to the fallopian tubes, women may experience fever, nausea, lower abdominal and back pain, pain during intercourse and bleeding between periods.
Guys may experience pain and swelling of the testicles. Rarely, untreated chlamydia will progress in men to cause pain, fever and sterility.
3. Gonorrhea. The bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae loves moist areas of the reproductive tract. Gonorrhea is transferred through oral, vaginal or anal sexual contact. Ejaculation doesn't have to occur for transmission to take place, and this STI can be asymptomatic.
Both men and women may experience a burning sensation during urination or a painful and itchy rectal infection. Over a long period of time, widespread infection may occur throughout the body, affecting the blood, joints and heart. This condition can be life-threatening.
Since Hopkins students generally don't ditch exams in order to be less stressed, the second best way to alleviate stress is sex.
OK, a hot shower, going to the gym, chocolate or whatever else makes you happy will work, too. Pleasure makes your body release endorphins - natural pain-alleviators and happiness-makers.
Nothing adds more stress, however, then being blindsided by the negative effects of sex. If you're going to use sex as your recreational endorphin-producer to escape stress, watch out for these possible problems:
1. Pregnancy. Unless you really want it, avoid pregnancy. You know the drill. Use a condom, pill, patch or ring. Or get sterilized. Just make sure you use contraception.
2. Chlamydia. Caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, this STI can be transmitted through oral, vaginal or anal sex. Chlamydia has no symptoms in up to 75 percent of infected women and half of infected men. Both sexes can experience unusual discharge or pain on urination.
In women, the infection first attacks the cervix and urethra. If the infection spreads to the fallopian tubes, women may experience fever, nausea, lower abdominal and back pain, pain during intercourse and bleeding between periods.
Guys may experience pain and swelling of the testicles. Rarely, untreated chlamydia will progress in men to cause pain, fever and sterility.
3. Gonorrhea. The bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae loves moist areas of the reproductive tract. Gonorrhea is transferred through oral, vaginal or anal sexual contact. Ejaculation doesn't have to occur for transmission to take place, and this STI can be asymptomatic.
Both men and women may experience a burning sensation during urination or a painful and itchy rectal infection. Over a long period of time, widespread infection may occur throughout the body, affecting the blood, joints and heart. This condition can be life-threatening.
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