Healthy Sexuality

Healthy sexuality encompasses a comprehensive understanding of sexual health, focusing on aspects such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs), access to safer sex supplies, and a sex-positive approach that celebrates pleasure. It also emphasizes the importance of consent, clear boundaries, and nurturing healthy relationships, ensuring that all sexual experiences are safe, respectful, and fulfilling.

Sexual Health

Bedsider: Explore birth control options with an interactive tool from Besider. Different methods can be compared side by side for effectiveness, side effects, sexually transmitted infection (STIs) protection, and more. You can also filter your search by these categories.

Sex Ed To Go: Many young people didn’t get the sex education they needed in school. Sex Ed To-Go fills that gap. This website is built on best-practices and inclusive principles by the experts at Planned Parenthood. Each course is between 15 and 40 minutes long and is available in English and Spanish.

Safer Sex Supplies: Safer sex supplies are a great way to protect from STIs and pregnancy. There are many free options available at the Wellness Lounge in the Student Wellness Center as part of the Condom Co-Op:

External Condoms (latex, non-latex, and flavored options)
Internal Condoms
Lubricants
Dental Dams

Here are some tips on how to use safer sex supplies. Dental dams and flavored condoms are for oral sex only. Lubricants can be used with condoms or dental dams.

SWC Health Services: The Student Wellness Center offers many sexual and reproductive health services including free or low cost STI testing, birth control options, and preventative screenings.

Go Ask Alice!: Find answers to questions on sexual and reproductive health and relationships. Go Ask Alice! is an anonymous health and well-being question and answer site. They have answers to just about any question from health to sexual fantasies.

Healthy Relationships

One Love Foundation: This resource provides tools and resources to empower young people to see the signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships. The focus of One Love is to bring life-saving prevention education to communities. They offer workshops, resources, discussion guides and self-paced training.

Love is Respect: Love is Respect is a source for 24/7 information, support, and advocacy to young people between the ages of 13 and 26 who have questions or concerns about their romantic relationships. They also provide support to concerned friends and family members, teachers, counselors, and other service providers through the same free and confidential services via phone, text, and live chat. Call 1.866.331.9474

Their goal is to be a safe and inclusive space for young people to access help and information in a setting specifically for them. Comprehensive education is provided through resources including quizzes, interactive pages, testimonials, training, toolkits, and curriculum for educators, peers, and parents to promote healthy relationships and prevent future abuse.

Violence Prevention

SJSU Survivor Advocacy Services: provides confidential services for SJSU community members impacted by sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking & harassment.

SJSU Office for Title IX and Equal Opportunity: The Office for Title IX and Equal Opportunity combines two prior offices: the Title IX and Gender Equity Office and the Office for Equal Opportunity. This new office simplifies the reporting process by establishing one place for all reports of protected status discrimination and harassment, including sex-based harassment, sexual misconduct, dating and domestic violence, stalking, and related retaliation. The office offers support and resources for those who are impacted by protected status discrimination, harassment, and related retaliation; disciplinary investigations involving any violation of the CSU Nondiscrimination Policy; and trainings on the office’s services, as well as the CSU's policies on discrimination, harassment, sex-based misconduct, and related retaliation.

Gender Equity Center: The Gender Equity Center (GenEC) advocates for social justice, respect, and safety for all members of the San José State University community, by educating on issues experienced by people because of their gender and/or their perceived gender, through an intersectional lens.

YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley: The 24/7 Support Hotline in English and Spanish provides survivors of sexual assault with crucial resources, support, and advocacy efforts. SJSU students can access these services by calling 1-800-572-2782.

TrevorSpace: An online community to support LGBTQ+ people moderated by The Trevor Project to ensure safety for users. Links to helpful resources and connections to others for part of this group. There are also phone, text and chat services 24/7 for those in crisis.