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One of the best things about being a college student is the amount of freedom you'll have for the next four years. Freedom to sleep in, go to bed when you want, take the classes you want, or go out to parties without a curfew. One of the biggest freedoms (and responsibilites) is being able to have sex with whomever you'd like (as long as it's consenual, of course!)

 

Sex is great and releases tons of endorphines which lowers stress levels and can boost your immune system. Unfortunately, having sex can also have some nasty consequences. Unwanted pregnancy, STIs, emotional distress. Life is unpredictable and unless you take the steps to protect yourself, there's no guarantee that you'll stay healthy and happy.

Prevention
  1. ​Condoms! There are LOADS of free condoms and lube available at Health Services
  2. Birth Control: great investment to help prevent pregnancy but does NOT protest against STDs
  3. Plan-B: NOT to be used as regular contraception but women have it available to them at Health Services for $25. Most effective if taken within 24 hours, but approved up until 3-4 days after having unprotected sex.
  • Women are less likely to have symptoms of chlamydia and gonorrhea. They are curable diseases, but if you wait, they could end up damaging your reproductive organs. Get checked regularly with a simple urine test
  • Women who are pregnant can pass STDs on to their children
  • HPV is the most common STI in women and the main cause of cervical cancer (HPV is also very common in men)

www.plannedparenthood.org (Obvious one)

http://www.ashasexualhealth.org/stdsstis/ (More STD facts

http://www.unh.edu/sharpp (On campus help with several resources)

https://exhaleprovoice.org/ (After-abortion support)

STDs & STIs
  • Chlamydia & Gonorrhea: spread through oral, vaginal, anal sex (unprotected). Ejaculation does not have to occur for gonorrhea to be spread
  • Herpes (HSV-1): spread through kissing or during oral sex (mouth to genitals). If this happens, it becomes HSV-2 and can be passed orally, vaginally, or anally. Not curable
  • Trich: caused by parasite, women rarely have symptoms, spread through genital contact. Curable if it is caught soon enough.
Abortion Information
Surgical: Vacuum aspiration is a way to end pregnancy by emptying the uterus with suction. The two most common methods are manual vacuum aspiration and dilation and suction curettage. The method used depends on how long you have been pregnant. MVA can be done as soon as you know you are pregnant and up to 10 weeks after your last period. D&C can be done after the first month and throughout the first trimester. Nearly 100% effective and the pain is similar to strong menstrual cramps. The cost varies between $350-$700 from community to community.
 
Medical: First, your clinician will give you an oral medication or an injection to break down the lining of the uterus and end fetal development. Second, you will take another meidcation in tablet form, which causes the uterus to contract and you will bleed. Third, you will return to your clinician for a follow-up to make sure the abortion is complete. This is available during the first 63 days of the first trimester and is over 90% effective. The after-effects are similar to the surgical abortion and is priced about the same, varying between communities.

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