• Test Your Sexual Health Knowledge

    Take this quiz to find how much you know about sexual health.
  • 1. Eating a healthy diet is good for your sexual health.

  • Answer: True. For optimal performance in and out of the bedroom, eat a balanced diet consisting of a variety of foods, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats, poultry, fish, beans, eggs, nuts and fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products.

  • 2. How can exercise improve your sexual health?

  • Answer: Exercise can boost your sexual performance in all the above ways.

     

  • 3. Smoking cigarettes is linked to erectile dysfunction and lower sperm count.

  • Answer: True. Smoking cigarettes poses many health risks—including to your sexual health. 

  • 4. Personal lubricants decrease your sexual pleasure.

  • Answer: False. Personal lubricants not only increase your sexual pleasure, but they can also prevent tears in the skin, which can lead to infection.

  • 5. What is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI)?

  • Answer: HPV is the most common STI in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there were 43 million HPV infections in 2018.

  • 6. Which of the following is not a method of birth control?

  • Answer: Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a way to prevent HIV infection by taking a pill every day. All the others are ways to prevent pregnancy.

  • 7. You don’t need to worry about an STI unless you have symptoms.

  • Answer: False. Not all STIs cause noticeable symptoms, which is why regular testing is important if you’re sexually active.

  • 8. A person living with HIV who is taking antiretroviral medication and has an undetectable viral load cannot transmit the virus to another person through sex.

  • Answer: True. This is often referred to as Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U).

  • 9. Kegel exercises are only for women.

  • Answer: False. Both women and men can strengthen the muscles in their pelvic floor by doing Kegel exercises. Not only do they aid in bladder and bowel control, Kegel exercises may also improve your sexual health. Click here to learn how to perform them.

  • 10. Sexual violence affects people of all genders, sexual identities and ages.

  • Answer: True. Anyone can experience or perpetrate sexual violence. The perpetrator of sexual violence is usually someone the victim knows, such as a friend, current or former intimate partner, coworker, neighbor or family member. Sexual violence can occur in person or online—via posting or sharing sexual pictures of someone without their consent—or via nonconsensual sexting.

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