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In Your Own Words: How To Speak Up!

Want to speak your mind? Share your unique perspective for readers at Scarleteen? Make sure that real teen and young adult voices get heard? See your name in lights (or pixels, more accurately)?

Is it my fault?

It's common for teens to have a mentality of "that won't happen to me". Well, what if it does? How does one cope when their trust and belief system is shattered by sexual assault?

Me & HSV

I have genital herpes. Those people you see in the Valtrex commercials, running down a beach with five beautiful women chasing after them? Totally me.

Not a Faceless Disease

One Scarleteen reader's story of having a friend with AIDS.

Shameless

Submitted by Heather on Wed, 02/14/2007 - 00:00.

When I was a teenager, having sex wasn't really part of my rebellion.

Having GOOD sex was.