Safe Sex Savvy: Everything You Need to Know About STDs

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STD Rates Are Alarmingly High  - The Centers for Disease Control recently released new data around the current rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) — and the news isn’t so great. Researchers say that STDs are at an all-time high and disproportionately impacting African-Americans, especially young Black women.  (Photo: JGI/Jamie Grill/Blend Images/Corbis) 

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STD Rates Are Alarmingly High  - The Centers for Disease Control recently released new data around the current rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) — and the news isn’t so great. Researchers say that STDs are at an all-time high and disproportionately impacting African-Americans, especially young Black women.  (Photo: JGI/Jamie Grill/Blend Images/Corbis) 

Breaking Down the Study - According to the CDC, in 2014, 1.4 million new chlamydia cases were reported in 2014, the worst it’s ever been with serious increases in gonorrhea and syphilis. Also, half of the 20 million new STD infections that occur each year are among people ages 15 to 24. (Photo:Liba Taylor/Corbis)

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Breaking Down the Study

Condoms Don’t Protect You From All STDs - Using condoms from beginning to end in vaginal and anal sex is crucial to reducing your risk, but they don’t give you 100 percent protection from STDs such as herpes and HPV. Herpes in particular can be transmitted from skin-to-skin contact and your partner doesn’t have to have an outbreak for you to contract it. (Photo:Image Source/Corbis)

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Condoms Don’t Protect You From All STDs