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Five Action Steps to Good Sexual Health

To motivate and equip the public to protect and improve their sexual health, the NCSH created and pre-tested the Five Action Steps to Good Sexual Health, which are:

Take Charge of Your Sexual Health

This guide informs people of all ages, including teens and older adults, about sexual health. It focuses on the preventive services (screenings, vaccines, and counseling) that can help protect and improve one's sexual health. The guide explains these recommended services and helps find and talk with a health care provider. 

Sexual Health Quick Tips

Developed by the coalition’s Communications Action Group, the Sexual Health Quick Tips provide easy-to-digest information and advice for the public. Using colorful graphics, they can be promoted via social media, including Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.

A Guide to Sexual Concerns and Pleasure

This Guide focuses on common sexual concerns that can stand in the way of pleasure. It also provides practical solutions, tips on finding a professional who can help, and scripts for talking with a health care provider or therapist.

Quiz: How's Your Sexual Health?

Are you happy with your sex life, partners, romantic relationships, and overall sexual health? Take this quiz to find out. And, get some practical tips and advice. Your responses will be private and will not be shared with anyone.

Understanding Bisexuality

This fact sheet helps readers understand bisexuality. Bisexual people have the capacity to form attraction and/or relationships to more than one gender.

Understanding Asexuality

This fact sheet helps readers understand asexuality. Within the asexual community, there are many ways for people to identify.

Sex Ed Webinar

In this webinar, we discuss the need for LGBTQ inclusion in sex education, the policies across the U.S. restricting LGBTQ-inclusive health education, and educator practices around LGBTQ inclusion in sex education, including new findings from the 2017 National School Climate Survey. We also share resources and best practices to improve sex education for LGBTQ students, including affirming language, inclusive practices, and additional resources for reproductive and sexual health education that can support all students in minimizing risks and building healthy relationships.

Sexual Health and Your Patients: A Provider’s Guide

Sexual Health and Your Patients: A Provider’s Guide can help healthcare providers better integrate sexual health conversations and recommended preventive services into routine visits with adolescents and adults.

Talking about Sexual Health: Getting the Care You Need

If you’re a sexually active person— or even if you’re not right now—you probably have questions about your sexual health. Like, should I be tested for STIs? Which ones? Or what are my options for preventing pregnancy? You also might have questions about your libido and why it’s so low…or so high, and whether that’s normal. Or why sex is painful, or getting an erection is so difficult. It’s not always easy to bring these topics up, and it may not be clear exactly what questions you should be asking about your sexual health.