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...

Here are some links and resources to get you started! At Scarleteen: • Blinders Off: Getting a Good Look at Abuse and Assault • The Scarleteen Safety Plan • Driver's Ed for the Sexual Superhighway: Navigating Consent • Dealing With Rape • Does Your Relationship Need a Checkup? • Hello, Sailor! How t...

This is an awesome yay! (And am very glad you didn't injure yourself in the process!)

This showed up today at the blog for one of my big-time favorite apps, Unstuck: In the best of times, it’s hard to admit you’re wrong. There’s nothing like digging into a piece of humble pie to remind you that — even if you’re a hot-shot, a genuine smarty-pants, or the nicest of nice guys — you stil...

Okay, I think I have all of you who have posted here moved from the newly registered group. If I missed anyone, just give a shout!

Bah, you got me!

Okay. So, an idea I would put out as a starting place per some of this, something I think might help and you can do with therapy or not, is to first just sit down, for a good while, and see if you can't start writing down an idea, or list, of what you really want right now. Not in the far future, bu...

Sorry for more with the questions! Per your last paragraph, do you feel like you can or cannot yet emotionally separate "a partner," and "an abusive partner?" In other words, while you likely can do that logically, do you feel like your feelings grok that a partner does not = abu...

Which one, samaraj?

...three websites you absolutely visit every day (or awfully close to that often)? Alas, because being online is almost entirely about work for me, and almost always has been mostly about that, my own list is work-related: for me it's our website, and then our Facebook and Twitter. However, lately, ...

No worries: everything is new on this system, so we're likely all going to feel a bit confused and disoriented for a little while.

Thanks for filling me in so candidly. Can I ask if you feel like you have given yourself time to simply feel disinterested in sexual relationships with others without trying to "force" feelings of interest, and with acknowledgements to yourself that it is absolutely okay -- rather than una...

Just a little icebreaker for those in the newbie group (and anyone else)! Here's how this works: think of two facts (truths) about yourself, and one lie (something that isn't true about you or your life). Post them both here. When you reply, take a guess about which of the previous posters things we...

I am so sorry you experienced that, AvocadoLime. I am very glad, though, you felt able to bring this here. Can you fill me in on what you have, so far, done for yourself for your healing since this relationship? That way I can have a better idea of what to suggest, and also not suggest things you ha...

Okay, you two, both of you should be out of the newly registered user group now! And welcome back!

Just so everyone knows, because there are some new tools and features with this new board system, we are trying some new things. However, we are not by any means married to most of these things, so if you have any thoughts or feels about the setp with anything on the new boards, feel free to leave y...

Welcome the the (new!) boards! When users are newly registered, for their first five posts, they can only post in limited areas. Here's which ones (and more info on this), here: http://scarleteen.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=24 In the meantime, you're welcome to get a thread started in one of tho...

MoradM, for stepping up to the plate as fast as a rocket and donating his amazing tech talents to us to test our new boards!

...and what do you think could help you to change that habit? Pretty much every single day we get users in our direct services worrying about pregnancy who are not using condoms - some using other methods, some using none. Or who have had STIs and were not using condoms (or who got an STI and yet ST...

I was reminded today about how many incredible survivors of sexual abuse and assault there are in the world, who have done incredible things. Today that reminder was Elizabeth Smart: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/06/1967591/elizabeth-smart-abstinence-ed/ I know that a big help in my own he...

Whether you're the one who is doing or has done the breaking up, or someone else has broken up with you, breakups can be seriously tough sometimes. So, feel free to vent, sniffle, growl, sob, be bitter as anything or share some virtual sappy movies and ice cream here. You may also find this piece ha...

If you used our old boards, you'll notice we've moved some posts and threads from them here to the new boards. Unfortunately, we could not automatically migrate the data from the old boards. All we can do is manually copy some things over and then leave the old boards as a read-only archive. And we ...

If you used our old boards, you'll notice we've moved some posts and threads from them here to the new boards. Unfortunately, we could not automatically migrate the data from the old boards. All we can do is manually copy some things over and then leave the old boards as a read-only archive. And we ...

"Why did you give them <thing you wanted one user got and we said no to you about> and not me?" or Why did they get answered first? If that's a thing you're thinking or wondering, know that we hold all our users to our general guidelines and policies, the ones you have agreed to when regi...

Because we serve young people internationally, some of you are posting from areas or parts of the world which are in extreme crisis right now, and where you're literally surrounded by violence, war or fear. That alone is obviously incredibly stressful. That alone would obviously create anxiety, pani...