I always assumed I had vaginismus because I had significant pain when trying to insert fingers or a penis into my vagina. It felt like a wall was blocking my vaginal opening, even if I was really aroused or used lube. Recently, I’ve noticed if I breathe from my diaphragm instead of shallow breathing...

I find that whenever I have crushes on people I play the idea of them far too much. A few months ago I DM'd this guy I had a crush on in high school. Over time the conversation fizzled out and he stopped responding and did not seem interested. I felt an intense sense of limerance and had thought abo...

I like collaging and writing, which are both activities that I feel are kind of hard to do with other people. How were you able to find discord channels, I know that some of my friends have met people there usually through playing video games. Also I really liked this article, I saw it before I read...

I think my family has always had a tendency to be distrustful towards my friends, especially the ones that they don’t know personally or friends that aren’t from the religion I was raised in. But it also goes to the extreme. They will think my friends got me gifts for my birthday because they are tr...

I did make quite a few friends this summer but my mom has been preventing me from making plans with any of them. I always find myself just having to cancel all the time until they've stopped asking and we just haven't talked since. I was seeing a guy and my dad caught me leaving in his car and they ...

I feel like I know that attraction is really subjective and that for the most part often lies within things that we can't control (our past experiences,exes, people who have rubbed us the wrong way). But I often struggle to not conflate my own attractiveness with the lack of dating experiences and t...

I saw a few posts about volunteering for Scarleteen, but unfortunately I cannot volunteer this year as I already have a lot of commitments for work and school. I was just wondering if there were going to be other opportunities to apply volunteer in the next 6 months to next year?

Birth can look very different for different people. Labour can range from hours to days, and the process of a vaginal versus Caesarean birth can also be very different. How a person feels while giving birth can also vary depending on their support system their expectations, and/or past experiences o...