No matter the app, swiping and dating can be tricky. If you’re going to use dating or hookup apps, here’s how to make the process a little easier.
Scarleteen's Link-In-Bio
A list of recent links posted to Scarleteen's social media platforms.
I want to like sex but I don't.
How can you feel safe enough to enjoy sex when you’re a survivor of childhood sexual abuse?
Wonder in a World of Worry: My Body is My Buddy
When the world outside is dark and scary, connecting with your body can be a place where you find safety and sanctuary. To talk about finding home in your body, I reached out to Dirty Lola.
The Bigger Picture on Erections
Learn about what an erection is, how it might look for specific bodies and hormonal profiles, and how to have some useful and fun conversations with sexual partners.
Rebel Well: How to Help Each Other & Improve This Godawful Mess
This piece is part of Rebel Well: a Starter Survival Guide to a Trumped America for Teens and Emerging Adults.
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’― Fred Rogers
• Stand up for other people. Period.
• Be a safe haven. Being a safe haven is something you do with your deeds, not just your words — and those deeds need to be meaningful. While signaling that you are friendly with something like a Pride pin can be comforting, it’s also important to take action, too, so people know that
Chosen Families, Chosen Care: How My Queer Community Raised Me
There are two kinds of growing up: the one where you outgrow your childhood home, and the one where you learn to build a new one.
Going Poly Won't Fix Your Relationship!
If your relationship is broken down, opening up won’t usually help fix it.
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The audience that we get seems particularly international. We’re still very much seeing a lot of the reverberations from the initial wave of COVID-19 and from lockdown.
We’re seeing a lot of people who are—in terms of what we know have been historical trends—or feel like they’re starting everything late. [They feel] like they don’t have the kind of practice in social relationships or, you know, sexual partnerships that they might have had if they weren’t out of school for a handful of years in lockdown.
Then, of course, all of the things that are still happening. COVID-19 and lockdown inserted
The Agonising Wait: Years Lost to Undiagnosed PCOS, Endometriosis, and PMDD
PCOS, endometriosis, and PMDD take years to diagnose, worsened by racism, fatphobia, and LGBTQIA+ bias. Get resources to combat medical gaslighting and receive care.
T4T sex and feeling euphoric
A common misconception about engaging in sex with trans and nonbinary people is that there is a “right” and a “wrong” way to touch each other. There isn’t.
