STI: Talking with Your Partner

Talking together about STIs provides a chance to make a plan and share responsibility for protection. This brochure helps partners start the conversation.

• Explains why talking with a partner about STIs is important
• Outlines basic facts about STIs
• Offers ideas about how to have difficult conversations
• Encourages planning together how to avoid STIs
• Notes that abstinence is one way to protect against STIs
• Discusses the STI risks of oral sex
• Gives basic guidelines for safer sex