The Ultimate Guide to Safer Sex

Because safety is sexy!

We talk a lot about the merits of being safe in our erotic endeavors but it seems folks aren’t always 100% clear on the hows and the whys of the whole thing. The folks at Greatist.com put together this awesome infographic to give you all a hand navigating safer sex. It goes over stats, STIs and protection methods-it even devotes a section to birth control options- my only beef is that there is no mention of the super-effective IUD.

For more information on safer sex practices check out my favorite folks over at Good Vibrations!

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JoEllen Notte is a writer, speaker, and mental health advocate whose work explores the impact of depression on sex and relationships. Since 2012 she has written about sex, mental health, and how none of us are broken here at The Redhead Bedhead.

JoEllen has led workshops nationwide on sexual communication, navigating consent, having casual sex kindly, and dating as an introvert. She has toured sex shops, spoken at length on dildos, and even started a sex school but she is happiest and most effective when writing and speaking on behalf of quiet people who have sex. Check out her video series on attending conferences as an introvert and her extensive writing on sex and depression.

JoEllen has spoken at Clark College, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, the Guelph Sexuality Conference, Woodhull’s Sexual Freedom Summit, and the Playground Conference

JoEllen’s first book The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression & The Conversation We Aren’t Having was published by Thorntree Press in March 2020. Her new book In It Together: Navigating Depression with Partners, Friends, and Family was published by Thornapple Press in March 2023.