Hey, this is Dr. Chris from Loveline.

Hoping you and your loved ones are staying safe and healthy during this holiday weekend.

All right, we're back.

And time to talk about a little solo sexuality, aka masturbation, safest sex you can have.

Why?

Because talking about sex, it's not about safe sex.

It's about safer.

And it's always about you deciding what level of risk you want to take.

And that's why we have options.

Condoms, prep, all sorts of different ways we can take care of ourselves.

So just be smart, ask questions.

But all things are not created equal.

You cannot use anything and everything as a sex toy.

There's a funny meme going around that said,

everything's a sex toy if you're brave enough.

Yes, yes, it's true.

But we do want to think about safety and hygiene and risk and damage

because that can happen.

And I really do believe that healthy sex is sex that doesn't harm us, right?

The orgasm and arousal is not worth long-term harm.

So the first one we always talk about is dirty fingers, dirty fingers and fingernails,

sharp dirty fingers and fingernails. I mean, when we're putting our fingers, when we're using

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