One of our users shares an experience with a date that was stuck to strict gender roles. Read as our users discuss this experience along with their own and consider what it means to be a "real" person.

Do you feel like young women -- including yourself -- are really allowed and encouraged to say a big, resounding yes to sex, and not just in certain conditions? Our users discuss this very interesting question.

You're a girl thinking about having intercourse but you are worried about pain. Read about other user's first time experiences here, and you'll see that first time sex often isn't a pain, and can be a positive experience.

If I'm replused by male genitals, but not romantically attracted to women, where does that leave me? A user asks about feelings of aesthetic dislike about penises, and confusion about feeling sexual attraction to one sex, but emotional attraction to the other.

Got questions about safer sex or birth control methods? Here's a sampling of the most common questions along with links to threads where people have gotten answers.

Have you had a condom fail before? What happened and why? How often DO condoms fail for our users? Take our poll and find out!

Almost everyone has made, or will make, sexual or interpersonal choices they're ashamed of, which just weren't so smart, or which were absolutely destructive or abusive in some respect. Curious about the bad decisions everyone else is making or has made, just for a reality check? Need to tell someone about your own bad decisions? Take the poll and find out (or read the results later in the thread).

Are you experiencing troubles when it comes to intercourse? Before thinking that your partner's penis size being above average is the problem, why not check this out?

So you've committed to safer sex for now. But for how long? Find out!

Find out about how long Scarleteen users decided to wait before having sex, and why they did so.