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Sarah, Sometimes, some folks just have REALLY sensitive noses, and will be convinced their genitals smell awful when they smell completely normal. That might be the case here with you. Too, if that profuse discharge is only happening for a few days once each menstrual cycle, that may simply be the…

One thing to understand about hormonal birth control is that it’s sometimes NOT advised for people dealing with depression, because the particular hormones in birth control can make some kinds of depression worse for some people. Sometimes they may have no impact on depression at all, but it’s…

You know, it’s not often going to feel good to anyone to have someone just stick a finger into the vagina. There really aren’t “tight girls” and girls who aren’t tight. The tightness of your vaginal opening and vagina is mostly to do with how sexually aroused and relaxed you are, and if what someone…

Well, I feel you shouldn’t fake it in the FIRST place, and would say it’s time to stop faking NOW. I know: it can be really hard sometimes to tell a partner we care a lot about that we’re dissatisfied, because we don’t want to hurt their feelings. But faking pleasure or orgasm is one of the best…

It’s absolutely normal for your partner to need some time to get fully aroused before intercourse is comfortable or even wanted. The vagina doesn’t really have a static state of “tightness” or “looseness.” When nothing is inside the vagina – or nothing is being introduced to it – the vaginal walls…

In truth, it takes a more than one sperm to fertilize an egg. Only the one does the fertilizing, but that one sperm needs a couple hundred “helper” sperm to do the job. That isn’t to say pre-ejaculate cannot cause pregnancy. From all we know practically and scientifically, on some occasions when pre…

If you always use condoms properly – and it sure sounds like you do – then it’s reasonable to presume that you have not had a risk of pregnancy. Condoms used alone – when they are used properly and consistently – are really very, very reliable forms of birth control and STI protection…

I painted a picture of pure, perfect mommyhood to anyone who would (or had to) listen. He rides in the sling all day! I never get tired, I’m too happy! I grow all of his food in my backyard and I have a nice, hot dinner on the table for my partner when he gets home from his hard day at work! And we never, ever fight. I was born for this job! Yeah, right.

No need to be embarrassed! Understand that the rectum is not a straight line, but is curved. It’s not only curved, it’s kind of curved twice: if the anatomy of your rectum from a side view was a map, we’d essentially go in from the anus, take a left, take a right, then go up again towards the right…

This is absolutely, positively, no cause for concern. Sperm can’t live in dried semen, and generally only thrive in moist semen that is outside the body (save in a lab environment where it’s carefully preserved) for about 20 minutes at a maximum. Too, when people with penises urinate, there…

Hey, there, Anon: glad we’ve continued being of help to you! Honestly, I don’t see any cause for concern here. Not only do I see no viable risks of pregnancy in this, just as you don’t, I also don’t see any reason to assume that you didn’t have a period this time around. My guess is you just have…

Hey Anonymous, On a personal note, when I was growing up I was really, really freaked out about the way I was shaped. Enough so that I was almost panicky the first time anyone else saw it! It turned out I was way more worried than I needed to be. Turns out that normal erections bend in all different…

Not an easy question, but I’ll do my best. I’m going to assume we’re not talking about infibulated women, but in the case you are, just write back and we’ll tackle that, too. One thing to understand is that one unfortunate aspect of defining virginity by the state of the hymen is that it just isn’t…

Jay: the thing about alcohol and sex is that, for some people, a little does tend to make relaxing a bit easier, but at a certain point (amount of drink), which varies for people based on their own individual chemistries and tolerance, it actually inhibits arousal, erection, and sexual performance…

I’m afraid you’re not going to like my answer very much. Really? You don’t want to be having intercourse – or even outercourse, if it isn’t comfortable and protected – when you’re not fully over a yeast infection (as your treatment will mention in the instructions). For starters, yeast infections…

Not if we’re just saying so? Then check out Planned Parenthood’s ingenious little film here, showing a nice array of genital variations for people of all genders.

S.E.X.: Spelling Out All You Need to Know about Your Sexuality By Heather Corinna/ Marlowe & Company, 2007 © Review by Marian DiPerna, Verbena Health Newsletter, Spring 2007 Have you heard? Abstinence is in these days. Providing teens with access to contraception is out. Any sex education other than…

None of this has anything to do with how much you masturbate. Nor is this likely about something that’s wrong with your penis. I am, however, seeing a few issues here that are either misinformed or not as they should be which are the likely culprits. For starters, understand that the vagina really…

Hey, Scott. Having one testicle has absolutely no physiological impact on sexual performance. Arousal, erection and orgasm are not reliant on the testicles in any way. As well, having your testicle removed, and but one remaining would not have impacted your sexual or general development, and your…

First up, good onya, J, for thinking about these things in advance, despite that fact that you’ve been so unprepared to do so by your community! Here’s the scoop on condoms for you. Effectiveness & Use: With perfect use, condoms are HIGHLY effective, around 98%. Perfect use means a few things. It…

Absolutely! Understand that orgasm isn’t really a genital event: rather, it’s a whole body event, one that takes place primarily in your nervous system and cardiovascular system, but which we feel effects of in our genitals as well, and which genital sex often causes. So, your heart rate goes up…

Below you’ll find a small sampling of graphics to use if you want to promote and link to Scarleteen on your web site. You’ll need to download the graphic to your computer and host it from your server, as we ask that you please link to our home page: or, if you’re helping with fundraising, that you…

Well, a little bit higher than her vagina is her clitoris: not only is that not a strange idea, it’d be much more likely to result in greater pleasure for her, or any other person with a vagina, than licking just the vaginal opening would. :) But maybe you mean higher than her vulva? Such as…

Sometimes we have no idea how things will affect us, no idea about the million ways in which one event can influence our lives. When I ran out of the driveway that day, across the street and to our house, I had no idea that the hard part was still to come. One volunteer’s story of her history with sexual abuse, and her journey to healing.

If he wants to wait until marriage and you don’t or feel you can’t, then this isn’t the person for you to be pursuing a sexual relationship with, because you two very obviously have strongly conflicting wants and needs. Talking to him isn’t likely to net the results you want, either – if he’s solid…