I've reached out to friends, family, readers, strangers and students. I've volunteered for events with awareness groups like BEHIV, covered HIV/AIDS Awareness events on college campuses and am quick to tell a person I'm dating about safe sex. I'm not the person who shies away from the topic of STDs nor am I the person who will hesitate to ask if a guy has been tested for HIV/AIDS. But what I've found in my journey is I spent so much time talking about HIV/AIDS that I didn't pay enough attention to the most common STD--HPV. This one is so crazy that over 50 percent of sexually active people can get it while using condoms. The only upside is 90 percent of people who get it can fight it from their natural immune system (according to CDC), but that's still a helluva thought. Imagine being safe every time and then walking into your gynecologist's office or your doctor's office to find out you have an STD, but you've taken every precaution outside of abstinence.

Well, if you don't know about HPV, I'm here to tell you about that and give you more tips on safe sex and sex in relationships. Please visit each and every link when you get the chance.