STD Awareness: Can I Use Plastic Wrap as a Dental Dam During Oral

If you read this blog — or any sexual health website, really — you’ll probably see dental dams getting a lot of props. A dental dam (not to be confused with a female condom) is a square piece of latex that can cover the vaginal opening or the anus. Anyone wishing to avoid the oral transmission of STDs like herpes, gonorrhea, HPV, syphilis, chlamydia, and intestinal parasites, dental-dam advocates say, should use a latex barrier. Most people, however, have probably never even seen a dental dam, and they are not widely used. Perhaps their unpopularity is related to myths about oral sex being safe sex (it’s not!); perhaps it’s due to dental dams being expensive or difficult to find.

Dental Dam: How to Use It and Why You Should

Dental Dams For Safe Sex

How to Make a Dental Dam Out of 3 Everyday Items: Gloves, Plastic Wrap

Dental Dams Help Spread Intimacy, Not STDs

DENTAL DAMS UNWRAPPED Planned Parenthood of the Pacific

BETTER SAFE THAN NEVER

Dental Dam - Fact Not Fiction

Dental Dam: How to Use It and Why You Should

Planned Parenthood — Does Planned Parenthood give out dental dams?

Because of the alarming amount of WLW and nmlnm who don't use and

DIY: Make dental dams out of condoms – UNC Healthy Heels

Dental dams - Fumble

Dental Dam: How to Use It and Why You Should