Barriers to Good Sexual Communication, courtesy of about.com/sexuality
Everyone has a hard time talking about sex at one time or another. Whether it’s answering a question about sex from your children, talking with your partner about a sexual issue, or asking your doctor a medical sex question, sex talk can feel anywhere from awkward to impossible.
But keeping silent about sex keeps us ignorant and potentially leads to negative sexual health outcomes (which could be anything from just having bad sex to acquiring sexually transmitted infections). Keeping silent about sex also allows all of us to perpetuate sex myths that are rarely true but sound accurate in the absence of honest and open sexual communication. If you’re looking to improve your sexual communication skills, read the rest on about.com/sexuality here.
Everyone has a hard time talking about sex at one time or another. Whether it’s answering a question about sex from your children, talking with your partner about a sexual issue, or asking your doctor a medical sex question, sex talk can feel anywhere from awkward to impossible.
But keeping silent about sex keeps us ignorant and potentially leads to negative sexual health outcomes (which could be anything from just having bad sex to acquiring sexually transmitted infections). Keeping silent about sex also allows all of us to perpetuate sex myths that are rarely true but sound accurate in the absence of honest and open sexual communication. If you’re looking to improve your sexual communication skills, read the rest on about.com/sexuality here.
Deception is built in by nature. It's a biological force. There are some people with the genetic combination so that they can get tested TOGETHER first BEFORE having sex for A VARIETY of sexually transmitted diseases. Potential sex partners that do the strategy of getting tested TOGETHER BEFORE having sex raise the standard of sexual health for themselves. And a better basis is set for talking about sex.
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