There's lots of other things that you can do to get sexual pleasure with yourself or your partner. You can use your tongue or your mouth or fingers to stimulate your partner's body. And not just their sexual parts either. You see the whole human body had lots of sensitive nerve endings under the skin, and that means you can get sexual pleasure from being touched or fondles or caressed almost anywhere. Ears, nipples, necks, hips, toes, fingers and backs can be favorite places for some people.

Some couples like to experiment with other things that can give sensual pleasure such as food being placed on the body and licked off, being tickled or stroked with particular fabrics.

Basically anything that you and your partner want to do that doesn't involve sexual fluids coming into contact with your partners sexual parts is safe as houses. You do need to make sure you talk about it and that it's what you both want to do and feel ready for. You must also both be over 16. Other than that, your imagination is the limit!Condoms! Condoms! Condoms! Yes we know. You've heard all about them and you're probably a bit fed up with hearing about them. However, here's a few things you might not know,

HIV is on the rise among young people in the West of Scotland and there is still no cure for it

More heterosexual people than gay people are getting HIV

Most of those are young people

There are lots of Sexually Transmitted Infections out there and some of them you might not even know you have!

If you are having penetrative sex, the only way to be sure of avoiding all these is to use a condom or a femidom, preferably with a water based lubricant to make sure it doesn't burst. Most condoms fail because people aren't using them properly or they are using the wrong kind of condom for the kind of sex they are having. But there is a lot more to safer sex than using condoms, and a lot more to sex than penetration!