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Re: Gay Sex ?
When people say they "didn't feel anything," that is rarely what they mean. In other words, they usually do not mean that they literally could not feel their own bodies having contact with someone else or being touched. Do you in fact mean you literally had no sensation, where you could no...
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 4:49 pm
- Forum: Scarleteen Updates
- Topic: New! The cure for the Sex Goddess Blues...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2736
New! The cure for the Sex Goddess Blues...
I think it's difficult to navigate sexuality as girls and women in the world today. Every dimension of our sexual selves is impacted by our current world and by history, both of which have had an awful lot to say about it, and usually pretty loudly. Shame, all sorts of expectations, beauty standard...
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 3:03 pm
- Forum: Got Questions? Get Answers.
- Topic: Two truths and a lie
- Replies: 40
- Views: 22961
Re: Two truths and a lie
Okay, CraftyKid, I'm voting on the bubble-blowing.
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:53 pm
- Forum: Gender
- Topic: Oh, how I loathe "man up"...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6435
Oh, how I loathe "man up"...
...and other related phrases. Not sure what it is people don't seem to get about how okay it isn't to try and coerce people to behave in ways they want by suggesting when they don't behave that way, they are not conforming to their own gender (or to the ideas about gender the person saying things li...
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:18 pm
- Forum: Gender
- Topic: Radically different ideas about gender?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4018
Radically different ideas about gender?
Cultures and communities almost always have a set of ideas about gender that are common within them. But often enough, we or others will have our own ideas about something that has to do with gender that may be radically different than the ideas of our culture or community, usually based in our own ...
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:39 pm
- Forum: Scarleteen Updates
- Topic: How do I act sexually without someone thinking I'm a slut?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2402
How do I act sexually without someone thinking I'm a slut?
New advice column up today: gorg.mel asks: How do I text my significant other without coming off as a thot or a whore? Heather Corinna replies: The idea that women who sexually express themselves in any number of ways -- like something as simple as expressing sexual desires to a partner through wor...
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 11:33 am
- Forum: Got Questions? Get Answers.
- Topic: Addicted? :O
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7721
Re: Addicted? :O
"Addiction" is a very problematic framework for something like sex. Let's see if we can't unpack some of this before we dig in: What if you were asking this about something else you really liked, like say, food. Would you be concerned in the same ways if you always enjoyed eating, thought ...
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:05 am
- Forum: Pregnancy and Parenting
- Topic: Planning an abortion- the CPC trick...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9473
Re: Planning an abortion- the CPC trick...
For more information on CPCs in general, should anyone want it, here's a starting place here on the site: http://www.scarleteen.com/article/abuse ... m_not_help
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:01 am
- Forum: Ask Us!
- Topic: Nuvaring + spermicide (continued)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2464
Re: Nuvaring + spermicide (continued)
Have you tried them -- inside condoms -- to see if any of these ideas are actually true in practice?
Also, the FC getting lost inside -- or even sliding inside -- the vagina is highly unlikely, given the size of the external ring.
Also, the FC getting lost inside -- or even sliding inside -- the vagina is highly unlikely, given the size of the external ring.
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 8:52 am
- Forum: Scarleteen Updates
- Topic: New front page poll!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2281
New front page poll!
On the front page poll/graffiti wall today, we're asking what you would or do need to feel comfortable talking to parents or guardians about sex. We'd love to read what you have to say! ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
http://www.scarleteen.com/
See all polls here: http://www.scarleteen.com/polls
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http://www.scarleteen.com/
See all polls here: http://www.scarleteen.com/polls
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 8:44 am
- Forum: Got Questions? Get Answers.
- Topic: Let's Introduce Ourselves!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9298
Re: Let's Introduce Ourselves!
(Kaizen, you just made my whole day! I'm so touched and tickled someone enjoys my metaphors so much.
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- Thu Aug 07, 2014 8:41 am
- Forum: Ask Us!
- Topic: effects of the pill
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2544
Re: effects of the pill
You're asking for a statistic no one has, mostly because to give the answer to what you're asking, everyone's fertility cycles would have to be the same and they're not. The relevant data we do have to work with is that in one year of unprotected intercourse -- and since direct penis-to-vulva contac...
- Wed Aug 06, 2014 8:03 am
- Forum: Ask Us!
- Topic: how to talk to people/make friends?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4649
Re: how to talk to people/make friends?
It is going to be awesome!
When do you start?
When do you start?
- Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:57 am
- Forum: Got Questions? Get Answers.
- Topic: Urinating frequently
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4357
Re: Urinating frequently
Missed that other question in there while I was replying. Like I said with that initial question, yep. Getting a UTI would be the big one, and because of where the urinary opening is on the vulva, it can be exposed to a lot of bacteria with something like intercourse, where there is a ton of direct ...
- Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:53 am
- Forum: Got Questions? Get Answers.
- Topic: Feel like my 'gut' is broken after rape
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5707
Re: Feel like my 'gut' is broken after rape
Thanks for making me more clear, Ruth. ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
That all make sense now, AvocadoLime?
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That all make sense now, AvocadoLime?
- Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:36 am
- Forum: Ask Us!
- Topic: how to talk to people/make friends?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4649
Re: how to talk to people/make friends?
I was also to add that my experience of arts school was that it was a place mainly populated by people who did not feel like they fit elsewhere. I recall calling it "misfit paradise." :) In other words, mist likely, many of the students there will have had the same experiences you did in h...
- Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:30 am
- Forum: Got Questions? Get Answers.
- Topic: Urinating frequently
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4357
Re: Urinating frequently
Bacteria getting into the urinary tract, and the body being unable to fight it off, basically. UTIs are very common for people with vulvas, and often especially so when someone is new to being sexually active per activities that involve the vulva. But they are important to get treated, not just beca...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:58 pm
- Forum: Got Questions? Get Answers.
- Topic: I hate my breast.. they are so ugly.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 42047
Re: I hate my breast.. they are so ugly.
I personally find it helpful when I am feeling stuck with something like this to remind myself that there is undoubtedly at least one person -- and probably way more -- who has something about their body that looks exactly like mine but that they feel good about. That helps remind me that all of thi...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:44 pm
- Forum: Site Help & Service
- Topic: New Board Feedback
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7362
Re: New Board Feedback
Thanks, acb! On the old boards, we'd done gender instead, but this seemed a bit more useful, and also like a term more people were likely to understand clearly.
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:42 pm
- Forum: Got Questions? Get Answers.
- Topic: I hate my breast.. they are so ugly.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 42047
Re: I hate my breast.. they are so ugly.
Welcome to the boards! :) How about we start with a little education about breasts? The sag, or "slope" of breasts isn't determined by size. It also usually has little to do with gravity, and a lot more to do with genetics than anything else. Breasts of all sizes can, and often do, sag , p...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:15 pm
- Forum: Sexual Health
- Topic: Fantasy birth control and safer sex devices
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5561
Re: Fantasy birth control and safer sex devices
Snorkmaiden: you know about microbicide research, yes? ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
If not, have a peek: http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/microbici ... icides/en/
We're getting there!
(I love the idea of a uterus that can be a loaner!)
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If not, have a peek: http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/microbici ... icides/en/
We're getting there!
(I love the idea of a uterus that can be a loaner!)
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:08 pm
- Forum: Relationships
- Topic: Bitter about goodbye
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3222
Re: Bitter about goodbye
Those kinds of transitions are so hard and so bittersweet. :( You know, though, in my experience as someone who has been around for bunch of decades now, so often relationships really don't "end." I mean, we certainly can end them, and if one person in them wants them to be All Over at a g...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:00 pm
- Forum: Sexual Health
- Topic: Fantasy birth control and safer sex devices
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5561
Fantasy birth control and safer sex devices
If you could have a means of contraception, safer sex, or both, that don't (yet!) exist, what would they be? I'd really have always just liked a simple on/off switch for my uterus, when it comes to babymaking, myself. You want the babies, you turn it on. You don't, you shut it off, without having an...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:50 pm
- Forum: Got Questions? Get Answers.
- Topic: The wide, wide world of relationship models
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2978
The wide, wide world of relationship models
One of our new users just mentioned feeling isolated because she's a teenager who's poly, so thought it might be nice in the newbie area to have a thread for folks to talk about the wide array of relationship models there are out there, and how diverse our choices can be, whatever our age. So, from ...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:38 pm
- Forum: Got Questions? Get Answers.
- Topic: Challenging sexuality bits in your teens & 20s
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3564
Challenging sexuality bits in your teens & 20s
If you had to pick the top most challenging parts of your sexuality or sexual life so far, what would they be? Mine may look a little out-of-place here, because it was an awfully long time ago that I was in my teens and twenties, but I'd say some of them were: • There being little to no information...