Got it. So, first I'd go ahead and figure that even all by yourself, having sexual response or desire shifts sometimes is just a thing that happens. If we're talking days, weeks or even a few months, it can sometimes just be a matter of where your overall body and head is for the time being, and be ...

Okay. Last question then: this has been going on for how long? Days, weeks, months, longer?

Can I ask if this is someone where you feel a very strong desire to be sexual with them? In other words, while you're not responding the way you'd like or expect, are you still feeling a really strong desire, physically and emotionally, to be sexual with this person? (Also, fellow-Washingtonian-fist...

Sounds like your Mom is giving you some pretty good wisdom there. :) You know, we get used to things, and used to people in certain roles in our lives. If we know anything about human beings, we know that most of us are pretty serious creatures of habit. We also know that we often have a hard time d...

Besides having this partner, has anything else recently changed for you that can influence this? For instance: • Have you developed a mental health issue, like depression or anxiety? • Are you taking any medications that can have sexual side effects? • Have you developed any physical health conditio...

I'm afraid to say this is one of those things where I think we have to accept that it very well may. After all, for a good decade and more now, policy changes like this have been happening and adding up, with baby steps taken in politics to make things like this possible. :( So, unless a good half o...

Even when we know it's time, and best, for something to end or radically change, that doesn't mean it'll be easy, or that we won't feel sad or conflicted about it. A loss is a loss, and loss is most often hard and sad. It also will tend to take time, and a grieving process, just like any other kind ...

Ah, my error, sorry about that. It may be this has been brought up yet again, mind you. Like I said, it's been an issue for quite some time now.

Why? The date is on the piece right at the top of it under the title. If someone was linking it as something very current, that's on them, not the source.

This piece was from two years ago, and this has been an issue since the start of the very first day (literally) of Bush's second term here in the states, unfortunately. There is some supporting information in this piece from 2009 here on the site: http://www.scarleteen.com/blog/heather_corinna/2009/...

So, you have looked before then, after all!

Still not getting a sense from you of why you think you are okay with a boyfriend touching you, but not touching yourself.

Well, awkward and scared are awfully different. Awkward is pretty easy to overcome, too: usually, all we have to do to feel less awkward doing something (and it's not like feeling awkward is a problem in the first place: it's no big to feel awkward) is just do it over time and it will feel less so. ...

Sounds to me like there is a prerequisite here, and one that would be important even if you never wanted to use tampons, and that's getting comfortable with touching your own body and its parts. Why do you think you feel scared you cannot safely touch your genitals, but you feel like it's okay for s...

You know we have a limit with you, however, on pregnancy panics, and we will not change that. We also need not to talk about risks you yourself do not in reality even have as if they were real. So, please respect this limit we keep setting, and I'd like for us not to have to remind you about it anym...

Sure thing! Hope this gets cleared up for you soon.

When people using hormonal contraceptives become pregnant, they usually miss their withdrawal bleed, just like people not using those methods will usually miss a period. However, the vast majority of people using the pill properly will never encounter this, because they will not become pregnant in t...

You will want to then look into what sliding scale clinics or public health clinics are near to you, and which you can reach using public transportation, like the bus.

But it wouldn't. Not legally, not practically. Obviously, that last doctor is not the one you want to see for this, but I assure you that a sexual healthcare provider or clinic can get STI testing for you as needed without parents being notified in any way. And the OB/GYN you are seeing can either b...

Your doctor was uninformed. Take a look: • http://sexetc.org/states/virginia/ • https://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+54.1-2969 (Look under section E there) (You just said a few posts ago you'd be making a healthcare appointment. Did something in your circumstances change in the last ...

That's fine, presuming you and your purse are not out in freezing temperatures for hours at a time. Really, a good rule of thumb is generally that if you can be out at a given temperature and not very quickly get ill or feel pretty darn bad yourself, so can your birth control pill.

You can get tested in DC without parental notification, to my knowledge. To find out for sure, just call or email into your local health department or Planned Parenthood branch and ask. Or, if you already have a general appointment with a healthcare provider, you can ask about that at your appointme...

Well, as a member if the pipsqueak tribe for reals, I would like to stand up for pipsqueaks everywhere and state more of us would not cause the end of the world. :P Mind, genetics are also more complex than that, anyway. Both my parents are considerably larger and taller than I am, and yet :) Maybe ...

Hey there. :) We list some things we simply do not or cannot do here in our services, and TTC is one of them. Since if and when you do become pregnant, you will need healthcare during your pregnancy, we advise people who are TTC to go ahead and start that care now. When you do that, that provider ca...

Again, you really don't "bleed." With or without the pill, menstrual or uterine flow has blood in it, but it has way more components than that, as we mention in our general information piece about periods. You have that flow on the placebos because, again, your hormone levels are such to m...

I love that PBS piece. :) Really, when that drop starts, what your body thinks is "time to slough off the lining." It's not about no egg today, because with a cycle sans the pill, that's not why periods happen, either. They happen because there is lining to be sloughed off, and again, the ...