Molluscum contagiosum is a chronic disease caused by DNA poxvirus (the largest virus known) through direct skin contact.
It affects the oral mucosa (mouth, tongue), the genital parts of the body, palms and even soles.
It manifests by red, yellow, white or translucent umbilicated lesions, accompanied by itching and pain, that appears in the infected areas in […]
Syphilis is another dangerous sexual transmitted disease. It is caused by Treponema pallidum bacteria and it is spread by blood through the whole body, affecting vital organs (heart, brain, nervous system, spine).
As all STDs, syphilis is contracted through unprotected sexual contacts (vaginal, oral, anal) and from mother to the unborn child.
The symptoms of the disease […]
Genital Human Papillomavirus is a commonly STD that can affect all parts of the body (usually hands and feet), penis, scrotum, anus, rectum, urethra, frenulum, corona, prepuce, cervix, anal canal and mouth. At women, it appears around vulva or vagina. It can be spread through skin by simple touch and by mucous membrane during […]
Trichomoniasis is an infection caused by a single-celled parasite called Trichomonas vaginalis. In men, it affects the urethra (tube that brings the urine out from the body).
The parasite is one of the most common STD, and it is transmitted by unprotected sexual relationship with an infected partner, during vaginal, oral or anal sex. Sometimes, bacteria […]
Genital herpes is a contagious disease caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV). It affects the skin and mucous membranes of the body.
There are more different kinds of herpes viruses, but only one can cause the genital herpes. Called HSV-2, it is transmitted by vaginal, anal or oral sexual contact, (not spread by objects […]
Another STD (sexual transmitted disease) is caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, simple called Gonorrhoea. Neisseria is a bacteria that love moist, warm parts of the human body, that’s why it can be usually found in cervix, mouth, urethra or rectum. Gonnorhoea is most commonly spread during sexual unprotected relationships or any genital, oral or anal […]
Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease caused by chlamydia trachomatis. It is one of the most common sexual infections in men. American researchers found an alarming fact-more than 2 percents of the Americans are infected with this bacteria. Annual, over 2,8 million new cases are reported only in US, but there are many more unreported, […]
In a modern society, the idea of free sexual relationships is wrong understood. The society allows us to have almost all kinds of relationships, and to interfere with all kind of people. Because we are different, our way of life is different too, and so is our health. One of the biggest enemy of […]
For you to understand the prostate cancer, we have to analyse first the prostate organ- a gland that sits bellow the bladder and it is also wrapped around the water pipe or urethra. One of its function is producing the seminal fluid that is then stored in a small gland called the seminal vesicle. […]
Yes it does! Not only that smoking can shorten lives, but it seems that more than 40% men who smoke more than a pack of cigarettes a day, have erectile dysfunction beacuse of cigarettes.
One study made on 8.400 men aged 16 to 59 revealed that almost 10 of them had erectile problems for a month […]