Useful Contacts for Sexual Health Issues
Sexual health websites

General sexual health information

• National Sexual Health website

This website offers information on the symptoms of and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. It also provides advice on the emotional aspects of sexual relationships and provides details of sexual health services available throughout Scotland.

• Marie Stopes
• The sex education show (Channel 4)
• The FPA (formerly Family Planning Association)

For teenagers

• www.there4me.com

Confidential online advice for teenagers, including 'real time' talk with an NSPCC adviser. Subjects covered range from bullying, relationships, drugs and exams.

• Think about it?

For young people aged 14 to 17. Offers information on sex & relationships to help you make decisions that are right for you.

• RU Thinking?
• Teenage Health Freak
• Youth Health Talk

For menopausal women

• Menopause matters

For over 50s

• Saga
• Help the Aged

For people with disabilities

Tel: 07074 993 527
Serves to aid the sexual and personal relationships of people with a disability.

For lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people

• Stonewall

Stonewall focuses on the rights of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals and provides information regarding lobbying, research (for example on discrimination in the work place, homophobic violence & sex education) and has taken test legal cases that graphically challenge inequality (e.g. on the age of consent and lesbians & gays in the armed forces.)

• Parents Enquiry
• GMH
• LGBT Helpline Scotland
• LGBT Youth Scotland

Detailed information including sexual health policy

• Health Scotland

Information about sexually transmitted infections

• AIDSmap
• GMH
• FPA STI factsheets

More detailed information including national guidelines

• The British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
• British HIV Association
• National AIDS Trust

Sites with information about contraception

• Brook
• FPA homepage

Natural family planning

• Billings method
• Fertility Care (Scottish natural family planning site)

More detailed information including national guidelines

• Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Healthcare

Sites with information about sexual assault support services

For women

• Rape & Abuse support

For men

• Survivors UK

Psychosexual health issues

• British Association of Sex and Relationship Therapy

Termination of pregnancy

• British Pregnancy Advisory Service
• Marie Stopes

Alcohol and other drugs

• Alcohol Concern
• Talk to Frank