How To define safe sex

To define safe sex in ths definition goes beyond abstinence. It embodies the idea of active responsibility.

In other words how do you have safe sexual intercourse before, during and after. Saftey is really just an extension of good sexual health including:

• sexual knowledge ( includes education like reading the kama sutra...)
• healthy habits (includes hygiene, self-awarness of body and emotional needs)
• Safe intimacy rituals (includes condom's, std blood tests, partner discussions)

Safe sex (also called safer sex or protected sex) is a set of practices that are designed to reduce the risk of infection during sexual intercourse to avoid developing sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Conversely, unsafe sex refers to:

• Engaging in sexual intercourse without the use of any barrier contraception or other preventive measures against STDs.
  
  
• Failure to have regular std blood tests
  
  
• Engaging in sexual activity that adveserly affects your daily life and relationships (ie sex addiction, pornography addiction)
  
  

Safe sex practices became prominent in the late 1980s as a result of the AIDS epidemic.

Promoting safe sex is now a principle aim of sex education. From the viewpoint of society, safer sex can be regarded as a harm reduction strategy. Safe sex is about risk reduction, not complete risk elimination.

Although safe sex practices can be used as a form of family planning, the term refers to efforts made to prevent infection rather than conception. Many effective forms of contraception do not offer protection against STI's (i.e. STD's)