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No matter what you call it, masturbation is one of the few things that almost everyone does, has done or will do. Here are some of the basic things to know.

You know it’s time to go, and you know it’s also time to start letting go. You probably have a whirlwind of different feelings about it. You may be leaving the worst relationshipyou’ve ever had, you may find yourself having to let go of what felt like the very best one. Maybe it’s a friend, maybe it’s a love, maybe it’s a FWB, your town, your family, or even just a way of thinking or believing. No matter what it was, what you know it’s got to be now is over and what you’ve got to start to get is over it.

In fact, like an awful lot of people, especially women, especially trans and nonbinary people, especially queer people, and especially survivor-people and survivor-advocating-people, we are furious; we are furies. We are mad as hell. Come rage with us on Apple Music or Spotify.

Brett Kavanaugh may have prevailed in the short term, but he doesn’t get the last word.

Mycoplasma genitalium (sometimes called Mgen) is a bacterial infection spread through sexual contact. Although it’s pretty common now, it isn’t diagnosed and treated as often as it should be.

When people ask about lowering their standards and whether it’s worth it to do so, the answer to that question depends on what those standards are. You didn’t describe yours in detail, so I don’t have much to go on, but in general, I’d divide what people tend to call “standards” into two types of…

What do trans people mean when they talk about “passing privilege”? And is it always a privilege?

One of the main answers to undo purity culture is to do away with purity culture in general, and abstinence-only education in particular. Take the whole thing and dump it all in the trash. Don’t even keep a little bit. Replace abstinence-only with mandatory, comprehensive, age-appropriate, sex…

Meet Emily Joy and Hannah Boning, the columnists behind Impurity Culture, a new biweekly feature on Scarleteen.

The second of this month’s batch is all about moving in together: the agony and the ecstacy, the joys and the woes, the ups, the downs, the argh of who drank the last of the milk again for crying out loud and the ahh of the very sweetest of first-thing-of-a-morning-even-though-your-breath-is-actually-kind-of-rank smooches. We’ve got your soundtrack for everything from bringing daily life sweetness to another person to learning to clean up your own damn mess to the deep and amazing joy making a home with someone who already feels like home for your heart can be.

Is “Latinx” just some weird made-up thing from the internet? How do marginalized communities reshape language to define themselves?

Al reflects on what it’s like to navigate having a queer identity while visiting their family’s homeland, a small, little-known Caribbean country in South America.

Why should you vote? Because some of our most basic rights depend on it.

We made a few of them, actually. And we’re going to keep making a couple of them to share with you over every month, because some of us love making mixes and all of us love all of you! Sometimes we’ll even deliver you some extra sex and relationships education at the same time, just because we’re…

It took a long time for me to come to terms with my singledom, but now that I’m here, I couldn’t be happier.

Think you might be asexual, or just curious about the ace community? Alaina Leary has the details.

As we change the narrative on disability and sexuality, we need to acknowledge that disabled asexuals exist.

If you or your partner is packing girldick, navigating your sexuality takes time, communication, and self-love.

As the children of immigrants in the U.S. look for love, a question emerges: how do you deal with the idea of losing your cultural identity?

When I saw the announcement that Supreme Court Justice Kennedy was retiring, paving the way for Trump to appoint another conservative extremist to the court, I got the hot, panic-anger feeling in my chest that I’ve come to associate with life under this administration. This adds to the growing…

STI rates are higher in communities of color. Get the facts so you can fight the stereotypes.

The good news is: you aren’t suffering from Too Much Lust, although that might be a fun name for your album when it’s complete. Jokes aside, it’s not wrong or unusual to have sexual feelings about someone you’re crushing on, whether that person is a celebrity you’ve never met or a friend you see…