age of consent

Article
  • Nicole

Is your boyfriend or girlfriend more than a couple of years older than you? Here’s a scoop on age differences and what to watch out for.

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

If you're not comfortable with anything sexual at any time, then the answer is always to make clear to a partner that you aren't comfortable with what they want, and wait until you are comfortable with whatever that thing is. If you never are, that's okay. It's pretty rare that any two people will...

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

You know, while five years isn't a big age difference between people who are, say 35 and 40, it can be a lot bigger between people who are 15 and 20. Think abut it like this: at 20, your boyfriend has literally already lived 25% longer than you have, just a little less than you've outlived someone...

Advice
  • Sarah Riley

It sounds to me like it's time for you to think about what you really want right now in this relationship and then have a good ole' fashioned sit-down talk with your partner here, honey! First off, what exactly is it that you want in this relationship? Forget for a moment what he may or may not be...

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

First things first: with ANY new partner -- as in, someone we have not been with for six months or more, and practicing all aspects of safer sex with -- we really, truly should be using latex barriers (condoms, in this case) with fellatio. I know, I do, that at 14, it often seems really unlikely...

Advice
  • Heather Corinna

There's nothing illegal about being platonic friends with someone who is an adult when you're a minor and/or under the age of consent: even if you were dating, so long as the physical activity was affectional and not sexual -- and hand-holding is not classed as sexual behaviour under any set of laws...