Workshops, books, videos and other resources by sex educator Amy Lang to help parents and sex ed professionals do an excellent job with kids, teens and sexuality.
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Excellent help and resources for healthy parenting about and with sexuality and relationships.
- Lisa Laman
For individuals on the Autism spectrum or anyone with some kind of disability, it can be hard to ask for help. Here’s a little advice from someone who knows.
- Heather Corinna
At long last, Merriam-Webster has added they and them, as singular nonbinary pronouns, specifically, to the dictionary. Those of us who are nonbinary, who use these pronouns, or both, didn’t need a dictionary to validate our identities, or the pronouns we use. Anyone and everyone’s identities and…
Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe, and Satisfying Choices About Sex by Bronwen Pardes, is one of our favorite starter sex and relationships education books for preteens or young teens.
Established in 2006, Gender Spectrum emerged as a response to the limited resources and support available for families and educators interacting with gender-expansive children and teens. They began as the first national transgender parent support group and quickly expanded to offer the first…
- Heather Corinna
- Sam Wall
Quickies are condensed, simplified versions of some of our most-read, best-loved content that also will often be a good fit for many somewhat younger users, or those new to sex education. They’re those core pieces of sex education that we think should be available to everybody, if possible. We’ve carefully created and edited them for lower literacy and to work better for those with intellectual disabilities, too.
Real, accurate information about sex, bodies and relationships in fun, animated videos. Particularly good for younger viewers.
- Heather Corinna
From Heather Corinna, founder and director of Scarleteen.com, and Isabella Rotman, cartoonist, sex educator and Scarleteen artist-in-residence, comes a new graphic novel guide – and activity book! – that covers essential topics for preteens and young teens about their changing bodies and feelings. Find out all about it, and sneak preview one of our fave sections, here!
- Caroline Reilly
We are living in a time where death and loss are everywhere we look and is a part of so many of our lives, often before we think it will be. Here’s some talk with The Order of The Good Death’s Sarah Chavez about death positivity – what it is, what that means, and who it can help – and how young people can better understand death, can better talk to each other about it and support each another through it.
- Heather Corinna
A short, fast, sex ed summary about the basics of sexual consent.
- Liz Duck-Chong
We hope every time you open up to someone about your truth they respond with love and kindness. But we also want to make sure you’re prepared in case they don’t, and give you some practical strategies and tools to look after yourself if that’s what happens. With that in mind, here’s a new, totally non-exhaustive, step by step guide to coming out.
- Chanté Thurmond
I know how important it is for brown and Black young people to see characters who look like them, and I know how much I longed for someone who looked like me and had a not-so-perfect home life to tell the rest of the world what it can actually like to be a biracial teenage girl.
- Mo Ranyart
I can’t definitively say whether you’re bisexual or not, because your own sexual orientation is something only you can know for sure. But I can throw out some thoughts and ideas that might make it easier for you to come to more of an understanding about yourself and your orientation. A great first…
- Cass Ball
It can feel like the world will end if you haven’t had sex or a sexual or romantic relationship by your mid-twenties. There are countless ways in which our culture puts pressure on young people to gain experience in romantic and sexual relationships. But truthfully, if you don’t have much, or even any, experience with dating and sex, you are not doomed to never experience romantic and sexual connection. The world also will not end.
- Sam Wall
- Heather Corinna
A short, fast, sex ed summary of basic sexual anatomy.
- Sam Wall
- Jenna Gaarde
- Claire P
The super-basics on what lubricant is and why people use it.
- Sam Wall
- Heather Corinna
A short, fast, sex ed summary about masturbation.
- Sam Wall
- Heather Corinna
A short, fast, sex ed summary about periods and the menstrual cycle.
- Sam Wall
- Heather Corinna
A short, fast, sex ed summary about crushes, and some simple dos and don’ts when you have one.
- Sam Wall
A short, fast, sex ed summary about pleasure and fulfillment.
- Sam Wall
- Heather Corinna
A short, fast, sex ed summary about the bare basics of healthy relationships.