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How to Understand, Identify and Make Choices About Desire
Left Foot, Red, Right Hand, Green: The Deal on Sex Positions
The Testing Diaries: Allie
The health center at my university is pretty awesome.
It provides free STI testing days throughout the year. Instead of making an appointment, students and non-students alike can just walk in, check in, and wait their turn, as it's run on a first-come, first-served basis. This particular event was for rapid HIV testing, where HIV results are given within just 10-15 minutes.
I visit my gynecologist annually, but I've never gone specifically to get tested for STIs/HIV. I attended this event curious about what the entire process was like.
SHine SA (Sexual Health Information Networking & Education South Australia)
Young people need our help and support. We need yours.
Risky Business: Learning to Consider Risk and Make Sound Sexual Choices
Words Matter: Cheers to the FBI for Recognizing How Much
As some of you may know, I experienced two different sexual assaults when I wasn't yet in my teens within just one year of one another. The second time I was assaulted, my experience ticked all of the boxes there currently are in our culture for what is so often -- now, anyway, easily considered a "real" or "bonafide" sexual assault, or what Whoopi Goldberg, to my great disappointment, would call "rape-rape."
The first time around was different.
Because yes, it really DOES happen: A thank you to SlutWalks
I want to tell you something very personal about me. Not because I want to. I really don't want to. But I'm going to do it anyway.
Wrenna Shows You Hers (and mine, and yours, and hers, and hers, and...)
If you’ve been reading Scarleteen for a while, you might already know that for many years now, we've heard from a good deal of young women who are deeply ashamed of and disgusted by these parts of their own bodies.
We take this very seriously, and have always wanted to do everything we could to try and help dispel all kinds of body shame or hatred, including that of the vulva. Over the next couple of months, we’re going to go ahead and take the risk of publishing some photos of real-person vulvas, because we’ve found something we think is beautifully done, very much needed, and that we think can be of great benefit to many of our readers, whether they have vulvas themselves or not.