Hey BurningScarlett. The pregnancy risk from anal sex, when your partner did not ejaculate, is very low. If his penis did come into contact with your vagina, then that also presents a risk of pregnancy, but it is again a low one since he withdrew before ejaculating. In terms of STIs, if you and your...

I don't remember my parents ever talking to me about sex, so all the information I got was from school. Unfortunately, that consisted of a couple of hours of discussion about puberty in grade 5 (they split up the boys and girls) and a few weeks of abstinence-only "education" in grade 10. M...

It's okay to be a bit annoyed if something we're looking forward to or want doesn't happen; as long as it's not leading to anger with your partner, and you're aware that sometimes sex won't happen for whatever reason (which it sounds like you are) then it's not a problem.

Done!

You got me! (I am a huge Harry Potter fan.)

Emergency contraception (the morning after pill) can throw your cycle out of whack and cause some irregular bleeding, so what you're describing isn't really anything unusual as far as side effects go. Unfortunately, it's impossible to predict what effect this will have on when your next period shows...

I really, really want to believe that you got to meet Neil Patrick Harris, so....I'm going to call lie on hating the taste of black licorice. Here are mine: -I didn't start talking until I was almost 3, but when I did start I spoke in complete sentences. -I can't whistle. -I've never read any of the...

Unfortunately, since you haven't witnessed any of X's behaviour directly, and you're not aware of the name of the school or the websites he visits, I'm not sure there is much you can do. However: some of the other volunteers or Heather may have some ideas, so I'll leave a note for them, and see what...

That's definitely a rough spot to be in, feeling like you have to choose sides. Have you brought up these concerns with your family at all? It sounds like there are a few different issues kind of tied together here, with how they feel about your partner, what they expect of you, and the lack of comm...

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For this thread, you get to come in and give yourself whatever name YOU want (if any), not what your parents or someone else picked for you. You get to assign yourself a sex (if any), not a doctor at birth. You get to name your own gender (if any), not accept what gender or gender role(s) you got g...

Hey y'all, I've been doing a lot of thinking about gender lately and about how my body relates to it, so I was wondering how other folk relate to their bodies in regards to their gender and the clothes they wear and how this does or does not conform to the expectations society places on you. For ex...

Welcome, AvocadoLime. We've set up this new board system so that for the first five posts, users are limited to "Newbieville," to give everyone a chance to get a handle on how the system works. You are more than welcome to post any question in the "ask us" part of Newbieville, th...

I've realized lately, from watching conversations here at the boards and just from talking to and listening to people in general, that people, on the whole, only really notice or acknowledge the bad or uncomfortable things going on with their bodies, and not the good/awesome things. One example of ...

Today, I got my period. Maybe no big deal for a lot of people, but because I've been very sick this year, it's the first time I've had one since March. That's about nine months, my friends. We hear so much about how it sucks to have a period, about how people wish they didn't have one, and now abou...

So, you got out of an abusive relationship (rock on, you!). Now that you have, or since you have, you obviously want to do all you can to never get trapped in one again. Obviously, we can only see so much coming: none of us is psychic, and as many of us know all too well, abusive people can be slip...

When people are debating sex education, often then will talk about what "works." Often they will do so without defining what exactly that means. Now, it's common for that to mean "works" at reducing unwanted pregnancy and STIs, and/or at delaying when a young person starts havin...

For anyone who considers themselves to be a feminist (and that includes the guys out there), how would you finish this sentence? What has lead to you identifying this way? Remember, "the personal is political"! I'll add my own answer soon, but suffice to say, this has felt particularly re...

The virginity one. Before I continue I want to state that I want this topic to be a safe space of any persons view. My question is, pretty much, do you personally think that the "importance" and pressure put on the concept of virginity in this day and age is valid? Do you agree? If so, wh...

A bit of reading and some resources to get you started in this area. At Scarleteen: 10 Common Myths, Misunderstandings and Big Ol' Lies About Emergency Contraception Birth Control Bingo! Condom Basics: A User's Manual What Safer Sex Isn't The Buddy System: Effectiveness Rates for Backing Up Your Bir...

Messing around with font colours.

This one looks pretty.

How about some code...

Sort of for testing purposes, but also because I think this topic could turn into a really good discussion.

As you learn to use this spiffy new system we've got here, there are a few resources that might come in handy. These boards are pretty similar in a lot of ways to the old ones, but there are a few differences. The FAQ is incredibly useful, but to get you started, here's a rundown of some of the tool...

A few resources (well, more than a few) to get you started. At Scarleteen: Abreast: The Basics of Boobies A Body Modification Primer Disability Dharma: What Including & Learning From Disability Can Teach (Everyone) About Sex ED: Why You Don't Have to Get So Down About Not Getting It Up Frankenbo...

So, my bestie's little guy, who is one of the two primary kids in my life, is seven. They come and stay with us every summer, and last summer, when on the ferry, we found an advertisement for another island that had zip lines. My nephew really wants to go on the zip line. He wants to go on the zip l...