sex education

Any way you do it, however you define it. In other words, what “sex” even IS varies pretty widely from person-to-person and day-to-day, and can be or include ANY number of sexual activities. Intercourse is sex, but so is oral sex, anal sex, manual sex, making out, frottage, role play, cybersex…

You know, “slut” is both a really subjective and often a really derogatory term. A lot of people use it out of spite, because they’re afraid of sexuality (or, more accurately, women’s or queer sexuality), and because they’re afraid of people who enjoy it, and on some level, perhaps, secretly jealous…

Scarleteen is about the realities of teen sexuality: One of the main reasons young adults come back to Scarleteen again and again is that they report it to be one of the few places they know they can come with real questions, and not be faced with judgment for having an age-appropriate sexual life…

Who runs Scarleteen, creates and manages its content, and staffs its services? Our founder, co-directors, volunteers, our in-house and freelance writers and illustrators, sometimes with help from colleagues, peer organizations or projects, consultants, and other friends and supporters of Scarleteen.

These are the standards that you agree to when you use our site and our services.

We’ve been here providing comprehensive, inclusive and progressive sex and relationships information, education and support for young people all around the world since 1998, and around five million unique users a year visit our website to explore what we offer. We’ve got thousands of pages of…

Hanne Blank is not a virgin. (She’s almost 37 and she’s been living with her life partner for nine years – we just thought we’d get that out of the way.) But she is a historian, a writer, and an expert on virginity, having written the first-ever history of the subject, “Virgin: The Untouched History.”

There is really only one thing that you need to know about sex and disability: Disabled people have sex, too.

When we look in the mirror as a culture, our tendency toward hysteria always seems to hover in our communal blind spot. We’re not very good at seeing when groups with a political or social agenda are manipulating us with fear, often the unreasonable, irrational fear of the taboo.

Some people experience great pain or discomfort with vaginal sex or other kinds of vaginal entry that’s not about hymens, lack of arousal or lubrication, or rough partners, but about a health condition known as vaginismus.