It is going to be awesome!

When do you start?

Missed that other question in there while I was replying. Like I said with that initial question, yep. Getting a UTI would be the big one, and because of where the urinary opening is on the vulva, it can be exposed to a lot of bacteria with something like intercourse, where there is a ton of direct ...

Thanks for making me more clear, Ruth.

That all make sense now, AvocadoLime?

I was also to add that my experience of arts school was that it was a place mainly populated by people who did not feel like they fit elsewhere. I recall calling it "misfit paradise." :) In other words, mist likely, many of the students there will have had the same experiences you did in h...

Bacteria getting into the urinary tract, and the body being unable to fight it off, basically. UTIs are very common for people with vulvas, and often especially so when someone is new to being sexually active per activities that involve the vulva. But they are important to get treated, not just beca...

I personally find it helpful when I am feeling stuck with something like this to remind myself that there is undoubtedly at least one person -- and probably way more -- who has something about their body that looks exactly like mine but that they feel good about. That helps remind me that all of thi...

Thanks, acb! On the old boards, we'd done gender instead, but this seemed a bit more useful, and also like a term more people were likely to understand clearly.

Welcome to the boards! :) How about we start with a little education about breasts? The sag, or "slope" of breasts isn't determined by size. It also usually has little to do with gravity, and a lot more to do with genetics than anything else. Breasts of all sizes can, and often do, sag , p...

Snorkmaiden: you know about microbicide research, yes?

If not, have a peek: http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/microbici ... icides/en/

We're getting there!

(I love the idea of a uterus that can be a loaner!)

Those kinds of transitions are so hard and so bittersweet. :( You know, though, in my experience as someone who has been around for bunch of decades now, so often relationships really don't "end." I mean, we certainly can end them, and if one person in them wants them to be All Over at a g...

If you could have a means of contraception, safer sex, or both, that don't (yet!) exist, what would they be? I'd really have always just liked a simple on/off switch for my uterus, when it comes to babymaking, myself. You want the babies, you turn it on. You don't, you shut it off, without having an...

One of our new users just mentioned feeling isolated because she's a teenager who's poly, so thought it might be nice in the newbie area to have a thread for folks to talk about the wide array of relationship models there are out there, and how diverse our choices can be, whatever our age. So, from ...

If you had to pick the top most challenging parts of your sexuality or sexual life so far, what would they be? Mine may look a little out-of-place here, because it was an awfully long time ago that I was in my teens and twenties, but I'd say some of them were: • There being little to no information...

Here are some links and resources to get you started! At Scarleteen: • Blinders Off: Getting a Good Look at Abuse and Assault • The Scarleteen Safety Plan • Driver's Ed for the Sexual Superhighway: Navigating Consent • Dealing With Rape • Does Your Relationship Need a Checkup? • Hello, Sailor! How t...

This is an awesome yay! (And am very glad you didn't injure yourself in the process!)

This showed up today at the blog for one of my big-time favorite apps, Unstuck: In the best of times, it’s hard to admit you’re wrong. There’s nothing like digging into a piece of humble pie to remind you that — even if you’re a hot-shot, a genuine smarty-pants, or the nicest of nice guys — you stil...

Okay, I think I have all of you who have posted here moved from the newly registered group. If I missed anyone, just give a shout!

Bah, you got me!

Okay. So, an idea I would put out as a starting place per some of this, something I think might help and you can do with therapy or not, is to first just sit down, for a good while, and see if you can't start writing down an idea, or list, of what you really want right now. Not in the far future, bu...

Sorry for more with the questions! Per your last paragraph, do you feel like you can or cannot yet emotionally separate "a partner," and "an abusive partner?" In other words, while you likely can do that logically, do you feel like your feelings grok that a partner does not = abu...

Which one, samaraj?

...three websites you absolutely visit every day (or awfully close to that often)? Alas, because being online is almost entirely about work for me, and almost always has been mostly about that, my own list is work-related: for me it's our website, and then our Facebook and Twitter. However, lately, ...

No worries: everything is new on this system, so we're likely all going to feel a bit confused and disoriented for a little while.

Thanks for filling me in so candidly. Can I ask if you feel like you have given yourself time to simply feel disinterested in sexual relationships with others without trying to "force" feelings of interest, and with acknowledgements to yourself that it is absolutely okay -- rather than una...

Just a little icebreaker for those in the newbie group (and anyone else)! Here's how this works: think of two facts (truths) about yourself, and one lie (something that isn't true about you or your life). Post them both here. When you reply, take a guess about which of the previous posters things we...