Condoms are less effective at HIV prevention, but also they’re unpleasant and don’t prevent most STIs because of oral sex. Nobody’s giving or getting head with a condom. People who stay on top of preventative measures tend to not bother with condoms since PrEP became prevalent.
Preventative:
1. Gardasil 9 (vaccine against 9 strains of HPV, prevents genital warts and cancers caused by HPV)
2. Monkeypox vaccine
3. Meningitis ACYW vax
4. Meningitis B vax (35% effective against gonorrhea)
5. doxyPEP (two pills of doxycycline taken after sex, 90% effective against syphilis, 80% chlamydia, 50% gonorrhea)
6. PrEP (prevents HIV infections)
7. and the usual suite of vaccines against the rest like hepatitis A/B, mumps etc
Treatment of the bacterial ones (which transmit through oral too):
1. syphilis - butt shot of penicillin
2. chlamydia - 1 pill of an antibiotic
3. gonorrhea - a week of doxycycline pills or one butt shot of ceftriaxone
Remaining: HSV. Half of the population has it, so no big deal. Condoms dont prevent it either.
As for hepatitis: even though it requires blood contact and as such is not necessarily considered an STI, hepatitis c is curable these days thanks to DAAs taken over the course of 8-12 weeks. a/b have vaccines.
Preventative:
1. Gardasil 9 (vaccine against 9 strains of HPV, prevents genital warts and cancers caused by HPV)
2. Monkeypox vaccine
3. Meningitis ACYW vax
4. Meningitis B vax (35% effective against gonorrhea)
5. doxyPEP (two pills of doxycycline taken after sex, 90% effective against syphilis, 80% chlamydia, 50% gonorrhea)
6. PrEP (prevents HIV infections)
7. and the usual suite of vaccines against the rest like hepatitis A/B, mumps etc
Treatment of the bacterial ones (which transmit through oral too):
1. syphilis - butt shot of penicillin 2. chlamydia - 1 pill of an antibiotic 3. gonorrhea - a week of doxycycline pills or one butt shot of ceftriaxone
Remaining: HSV. Half of the population has it, so no big deal. Condoms dont prevent it either.
As for hepatitis: even though it requires blood contact and as such is not necessarily considered an STI, hepatitis c is curable these days thanks to DAAs taken over the course of 8-12 weeks. a/b have vaccines.