What's up this month?

We've got two new site features this month we think are awfully ducky. The first is our live site helpline, where you can go and talk directly, in real time, to a staff member or volunteers to get any help you need using the site, like finding exactly what information or service you need on it, or where you can ask shorter sexuality or sexual health questions or get help making sense of something you read here, just like with our SMS service.
 
You can read all about it right here.

We also have a new spot on the front page, to the right of our poll down there, recognizing the fantastic supporters of Scarleteen who have donated enough at one time, or over the years, to keep us running for at least one full day. You can take a look at our superhero of the day anytime and sit in awe of their awesome.

Question:

The guy I'm sleeping with really wants to have PIV sex with me, but he won't wear a condom because he's Roman Catholic. Everything else we've done has been amazing and I really want to do it, but I'm terrified of getting pregnant and I've already had a scare that I haven't told him about. I'm on the pill now, but I know that it isn't 100% effective. Would it be really wrong to try and get him to change his mind about condoms? I'm religious too and I'd hate to make him do anything that would go against his faith, but the idea of getting pregnant scares me so much that I have nightmares about it, and since we're not really together I don't know what he'd do.

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Wise Words, Cool Facts & Other Quoteables

You have a voice. Use it to ask for what it is you want.

This is key to liberation; sexual or otherwise. When you ask for what it is you want (& need) you are taking ownership of your desires.

— Ev’yan Nasman