The Twelve Days of STD’s
April 30, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Boys & Girls, Exposed!, Health, Sex
Remember Healthbolt’s review ‘Seductive Delusions’, a book by Dr Jill Grimes about how ordinary people can easily and unknowingly get STD’s.
With April being the CDC’s (Center for Disease Control) STD Awareness Month, Jill was looking for a way to promote risks of STDs to teenagers in particular. She came up with the idea of a video that could be posted on YouTube. After all, what better way of reaching teenagers these days than YouTube and social media networks.
The result – a quirky video about the ‘12 Days of STD’s’ in which Jill and a few teenagers sing about STD’s …read more
Book Review: Seductive Delusions – Everything you ever wanted to know about STD’s and were afraid to ask…
February 22, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Exposed!, Health, Medicine, Prevention, Relationships, Sex, Sexbolt Saturday, Treatment, Womens Health, Your Body, men's health
Did you know that in the United States alone, there are 19 million new sexually transmitted disease (STD) cases diagnosed each year?
Scary numbers.
But most people will look at those numbers and say, ‘yeah, but that won’t happen to me. I’m safe. My behavior is not risky.”
Unfortunately, it could easily happen to you. All it really takes to get a sexually transmitted disease is one instance of unprotected sex.
Which is why I suggest that anyone who is sexually active or intending to become sexually active read Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STD’s by Jill Grimes MD.
It’s an easy to read …read more
