It’s important to weigh the possible benefits and risks of being sexually active. To be healthy sexually is to maintain a balance with everything else in your life – your physical and emotional health, career and educational goals, relationships with other people, and your feelings about yourself.
If you’re sexually active, select the contraceptive method right for you based on cost, effectiveness, ease of use and safety. Most sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are curable or manageable – the key is early detection and treatment.
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On-campus and need safer sex supplies?
Health Promotion offers free safer sex supplies delivered through campus mail to on-campus students. Supplies available include external condoms, internal condoms, non-latex condoms, dental dams, and single-use water-based and silicone-based lubricants. These items are available for individual students, campus partners, and event requests. Health Promotion also provides safer sex packs (containing 50 external condoms) to RAs. These packs are for distribution to residents upon request and are available twice during fall semester and once during spring semester.
Submit a request for safer sex supplies
Off-campus and still need safer sex supplies?
Students can visit the Health Promotion Department in the Student Services Building, Room 345 to obtain safer sex supplies. In the hallway outside of room 345 is a safer sex supplies bin where students can help themselves to the safer sex supplies, they may need during the business hours of Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm. Or you can order safer sex supplies within the state of Michigan for free, delivered right to your door. Complete a safer sex supply order request through Corktown Health or through Cares.
Emergency contraception pills are a method of emergency contraception that can be used to prevent pregnancy after sexual intercourse. There are multiple locations to access emergency contraception pills (aka Planned B) for free on campus, listed below as partnered with the registered student organization EL FREE EC:
There are different versions of emergency contraception pills that are available in different contexts, for more information we recommend checking out Planned Parenthood’s educational resources on emergency contraception.
Confidential STI testing on campus is available by appointment through Campus Health Services Primary Care and Gynecology Clinic. All testing, treatment, and counseling are handled in a strictly confidential manner. To schedule a confidential STI testing appointment, please call 517-353-4660.
Together, you and your clinician will determine what tests, if any, are appropriate. Tests may require:
STI tests available include:
Providers can also provide you with educational information and/or referral for any other sexual health questions or concerns you may have.
Routine gynecology care is available through Campus Health Services Gynecology Clinic. To schedule a gynecology appointment, please call 517-353-4660 or if 18 years or older book an appointment online here.
Transgender health care is available through Olin Health Center. To schedule an appointment on initiating or continuing transgender care, please call 517-353-4660 or if 18 years or older book an appointment online here.
The MSU Gender and Sexuality Campus Center (GSCC) is a department on campus that celebrates, affirms, and supports Queer and Trans individuals and communities at Michigan State University through advocacy, education, programming, and community-building. To learn more about their services, click here.
MSU Women*s Student Services (W*SS) is a department on campus that is dedicated to advancing women and gender equity on campus by providing engaging programs, relevant information, timely services, and resources for women students on campus. To learn more about their services, click here.
MSU Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) is a department on campus that is dedicated to connecting scholars, students, and community stakeholders with feminist knowledge to advance social change through gender and sexuality research, teaching, and engagement with a global perspective. To learn more about their services, click here.
MSU Office of Civil Rights and Title IX Education and Compliance (OCR) is a department on campus that supports the campus community in creating and maintaining a safe environment and a culture of respect through educating all campus community members regarding how to prevent, identify, appropriately respond to, and report discrimination, harassment, stalking, sexual assault, and relationship violence; conducting impartial, fair, supportive, and equitable investigations of complaints under MSU’s Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct and Title IX Policy (RVSM Policy) and MSU’s Anti-Discrimination Policy (ADP); and connecting those impacted by discrimination, harassment, relationship violence, and sexual misconduct with campus and community resources. Title IX prohibits retaliation against reporters of sex discrimination, including reports of sex discrimination against administrators and other employees. MSU will independently investigate alleged retaliation for participation in the Title IX process.
The Office of Civil Rights and Title IX Education and Compliance is composed of the following offices:
MSU Center for Survivors is a department on campus that provides support to survivors and co-survivors of intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence. Center for Survivors provides a variety of supportive services from individual counseling, support groups, advocacy, crisis services, residential shelter, a Sexual Assault Healthcare Program, and more. Availability and eligibility of these services vary widely, for more specific information on their services, click here.
Need additional sexual wellness resources? Below are a list of some online resources and local non-MSU resources: