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Is your sex life or sexual relationship feeling like someone pressed the fast-forward button and now it's spinning out of control? Evaluate whether things are moving too fast for you or a partner, and then get some help on pulling back the reins and slowing things down to a more comfortable pace.

Feeling unhappy in or unsure about your relationship? Having problems you don't know how to work through, or don't even know if you should? We'll talk you through making these choices, including how-to's on conflict resolution and doing breakups better.

For starters, I think staying silent about this with a romantic partner isn't likely to help you out, especially one you're physical with. Unless you feel like your relationship is too new to be talking about sexuality at all yet, I also don't think keeping how you're feeling to yourself is going to...

Because you don't want to have any kind of sex or a given kind of sex now, in a given relationship, or don't feel ready now or in this relationship does not mean you won't ever. There are many, many kinds of sex -- not just intercourse, and sex also includes masturbation, having sex by ourselves...

I understand why you're feeling heartbroken. I'm so sorry this is how things have been going for you and that you're hurting so much. I strongly doubt you were stupid, and I want to remind you that this isn't something you did by yourself: both of you chose to add sex to your relationship, not just...

Do I think you should just suck it up, take these photos and share them? No. First and foremost because, depending on the content and level of nudity, doing so could be as consequentially serious as a felony on both of your parts. So it's clear right from the start and in a way you can't miss it: I...

This month, as part of Scarleteen's fundraising efforts, we have the pleasure of having some folks we love guest-writing for our advice section. For your question, I was delighted to be able to ask Hanne Blank to answer it for you. Hanne is one of the smartest people when it comes to sexuality...

One of the most amazing—and, at times, confusing—things about the world is how there are so many people and also so many different opinions and values that people hold. What seems right and good to one person just may not work for another. There’s no single way of being or one way of thinking that...

Not only have we seen this before, it's something we see at Scarleteen often. At our message boards, at least once or twice a week a user comes to us feeling exactly like you are. I promise, it's not just you. Over the years, I've looked and looked for some kind of study on pervasive pregnancy...

The core of what you're asking about is a biggie, one whole books have been written about. As someone who tends to be verbose, I could certainly write you a book, but I'll spare you an encyclopedia, aim for a summary and will probably land somewhere in between. Based on what you posted, I don't see...