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Sex - Worth Talking About

Talking about sex doesn’t have to be as difficult as you think. Whether it’s knowing about your contraceptive choices, explaining STIs, coping with emotions or understanding your body, it's now even easier to find straightforward information and advice to make it easier to discuss everything to do with sexual health.

All the information in one place

Whatever you want to find out, you can now access it at the new NHS website www.nhs.uk/worthtalkingabout.

This contains fact sheets, videos, advice and links to local services, all in one convenient place.

You can find information about STIs like chlamydia, information about sex and young people, step by step guides to talking to about sex, contraception and more.

And because it's on the NHS Choices website you can look up local services or check out other health worries while you're there.

Sex. Worth talking about

With adverts on the television, and a brand new campaign in the run-up to christmas, the worth talking about website has one key message: talking about sex is ordinary, normal and everyone needs to do it.

What's happened to ruthinking and condom : essential wear?

Some of the content from the Condom: Essential Wear and RUthinking websites will be going over to the new Worth Talking About website.

These two websites will close.

Find out more about sex and sexual health

There's information about local sexual health services for young people right here on spired.com. Find out about:

And don't forget to check out Bicester Bodyzone's 12 days of christmas and 50 ways to say I love you (without having sex)

Have a safe and happy christmas!

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