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Whether you’re looking for information or help for yourself, want to read or take part in a group discussion, or offer up support for others, you can talk to staff, volunteers, and peers on the boards. They’re open 24/7 most days of the year, and are actively moderated for everyone’s safety and security.

Advice questions with in-depth responses from our fantastic writers are the OG Scarleteen format. Although we read every submission, only some will result in replies or published columns, so for immediate and guaranteed answers, you can submit your question to our other services, too.

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Here’s all our organizational news, fundraisers, service updates, and commentary or public statements about current events.

In 1998, Heather Corinna started answering emails young people sent them asking for information about and help with sex and relationships. Their answers, and how Scarleteen was built and run thereafter, included their background in learner-centered education, in creative writing and design, and their life experience as a queer, progressive, community service-minded and profoundly sex-positive person.

We feel sexuality education for young people is best guided by things like respect for young people’s own agency and self-knowledge, diversity and inclusion, cultural sensitivity, consent, liberty, listening, ingenuity and creativity, accuracy, flexibility, care and other aspects or expressions of our core values and aims.

There’s a lot of great, trustworthy information and help outside Scarleteen. Some of those resources help with things we do, others provide things we don’t.

Here you’ll find the highlights and history of our media appearances and mentions, as well as how (and if) to contact us if you’d like to get our take, feature us or otherwise talk with us for all kinds of media.

I am an autistic, genderfluid lesbian, and I experience these identifiers as tightly intertwined.

You’ve landed on our always-expanding glossary! We hope it serves you well and answers all of your elucidatory desires!

Want to read books or zines by our staff, volunteers, writers, artists or partners? You’ll find a list of them here!

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real.

Scarleteen Confidential is a series written for parents and other supportive adults where we share what young people have shared with us.

Quickies are simplified versions of some of our most-read, best-loved content made for those with learning disabilities, young users, or those new to sex ed.

Feel like you haven’t quite found your footing in the bedroom yet? Join the club. Exploring sex and sexuality is a lifelong process; it’s impossible to ever have it all figured out, especially right out of the gate. It’s also hard to feel confident about something shiny and new, whatever it is…

We explore mainstream porn in this piece: media available for free on tube sites, and that isn’t explicitly or intentionally feminist, queer, or alternative.

Sexual trauma impacts the mind and body in unique ways, and it can leave footprints in the form of physical, mental, and emotional impacts.

Polyamory, sometimes called non-monogamy or open relationships, is a big subject with a lot to talk about, so we’ll start at the beginning: with a definition. You’ll see it defined a lot of ways, but here’s one we like: Being interested in or pursuing intimate relationships (emotional and/or sexual)…

This is not the be-all-end-all guide to sex and disability because a) it’s not, and b) there just can’t ever be such a thing with any guide to sex. This series, much like your entire sexual life, is a work in progress and an endless, ongoing conversation. We hope this can be a good place for you to…

A column by bisexual writer Adam England expressly for bisexual guys.

Pelvis Problems is a series created and written for Scarleteen by Caitlyn Tivy, a pelvic health physical therapist, that focuses on health issues she encounters in her work as a PT and what readers living with them can do about them.

Lisa Laman is an autistic, transfeminine person, and she’s here to help you through your dating and relationship experiences through the lens of her own.

FBIs – what we’re calling frequently bothersome issues – are kinds of genital illness or discomfort that people get with or without sexual activity in the mix. Find out all about these, how you can prevent them, and what to do about them if you suspect or know you have one.

Our identities and histories can be important and awesome, but they can also be a little difficult to figure out. What happens when your ideas about who you are clash with each other, or when you don’t feel like you fit anywhere at all? Perhaps you think you identify with words like ‘bisexual’ or…

Clear and in-depth information about all known and current infections or other kinds of illness that can be transmitted through consensual sex, sexual violence or other kinds of intimate contact.