It’s really common – in 2019 alone, over 23,000 Queenslanders were diagnosed with chlamydia. ChlamydiaĬhlamydia is one of those STIs that people can live with for years without knowing they have it. We’ve got you covered here with a rundown of the most common STIs, what they can do to your body and simple ways you can prevent getting them. You see, there are a couple of easy things you can do to have a confident and healthy sex life, to look after your body and make sure you don’t have an infection that could cause you harm. But it’s also simple, really simple to be sexually healthy. That makes it kinda tricky, as people can be having sex without knowing they’re infected, which means the infection could be passed on and be causing damage to your body unnoticed. You won’t be able to tell for sure if you or the person you’re having sex with has an STI without being tested, because these nasty infections don’t always cause symptoms that you can see or feel. And that’s all types of sex anal sex, oral sex and penis in vagina sex as well as hand play and through sex toys. STIs are spread from one person to another through sex and sexual body contact.

But when the long-term side effects of STIs can include chronic pelvic pain, infertility and in rare cases, cancer, it turns out they are no laughing matter. The clap, the clam, the pox, the gift that keeps on giving – we’ve created so many slang terms to make sexually transmissible infections (STIs) seem a little bit funnier and a little less serious.

What is the clap