Its college and most people at college are concerned about the usual things: schoolwork, making friends, and finding hookups or keeping relationships; but no one should forget about the basic precautions that should be taken to make sex safer. Sex can be dangerous to anyone’s future if they do not take certain safety measures. Since middle school, most people have been taught all about different STDs and how to prevent them, so how can sex be made safer?

Practicing safer sex doesn’t necessarily involve ending your sex life completely. The only 100% fail-proof way to not get pregnant or get an STD is abstinence, and very few want to hear that solution to STDs and unplanned pregnancy. There are other ways to help save you from these dilemmas, such as oral contraceptives like the birth control pill, which is taken every day. The problem with this method is that if a woman forgets to take the pill at the same time every day, there is a chance that she will get pregnant. Another method is a vaginal contraception ring called the Nuva-ring which creates hormones to prevent pregnancy and lasts a month. Injections, or Depo-Provera, are another type of birth control in the form of a shot that is received every three months. None of these birth control methods will protect against STDs.

Condoms are an all in one protection to help make sex safer for all parties involved. Freshman James Bailey said “At Brady hall we are prepared for safe sex with a bucket full of condoms!”

Comments (1)

	1. 12-10-2007 11:50
	Just Wrong I am disgusted by this article on Safer Sex by Courtney McQuistion, and as one who has studied the topic and given a half-dozen or so speaches on the topic. Also, I amSecretary of Students Services and Concerns, and I believe it is my duty to inform you of the gross mis-information that Ms. Mcquistion included in her article. I know that she obviously did not do her research before she had published her   article. I know that the title is safer sex but all she seemed to address in length is how not to have a baby! Condoms are hardly address enough or the truth given about them. With the most common bacteria and viral sexually transmitted diseases condoms do not help one bit! With other STD's they only help about fifty percent!     Where is the safety in that!? The truth is, as she said, to not have sex until you are ready, aka marriage. The main reason that I am outraged is that she gave advised without the proper research on an issue that involves peoples lives. Some STD's can lead to cancer.   Wonder why there are so many fertility clinics and that they are serving more than ever? Some STD's can lead to infertility. There are many resources to view these statistics for yourself one is pamstenzel.com or Dr. Meg Meeker out of Traverse City who wrote "How teen sex is killing our kids." Registered

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