Adding an extra thought here: it might depend why your daughter or they both are considering not using condoms any more. Sometimes that can be to do with how it physically feels, in which case, yes experimenting with different brands and types is definitely the way to go. Sometimes, especially if pe...

Hi gcw, it sounds like by "sex" you're just thinking of intercourse. When we - and other sex educators and sexual health practitioners - say "sex", we mean all kinds of sex, including oral sex and manual sex. The answer to What's Sex? can and often is even broader than that, too,...

Per going off the pill and irregular periods: maybe, maybe not. Using the pill for a while can't make your periods regular for all of the future after you stop using it. But, it depends what your body would be doing anyway: sometimes people have shifts and changes in their menstrual cycle. How long ...

According to the most up-to-date study, pre-ejaculate (pre-cum) doesn't contain sperm, but it can pick up sperm that's still in the urethra from a previous ejaculation. Urination is very likely to remove any sperm that was left, but it's not guaranteed. If you didn't ejaculate in or on your partner'...

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I'm hearing that you don't believe you deserve any help - or perhaps, that you don't deserve to feel any better than you do - while your body is the way it is at the moment. We know from pretty extensive study on self-esteem and appearance that when someone's feeling bad or very unhappy about their ...

If you're having intercourse - which is what you're describing - without using contraception, there's some chance of pregnancy. If you don't want to be taking that risk, you can choose to use a condom or to not have those kinds of sex. Condoms, used correctly, are very effective at preventing pregna...

You still have the full protection of your pill if you start another pack straight away. The one thing you must do is to take all of the active pills in a pack, one day after another, without leaving any pills out or missing any days. It's important, too, to never leave a bigger gap between packs th...

Welcome to the boards! If you've been taking your usual pill correctly, there's no need to take emergency contraception. Emergency contraception (the "morning after pill") does the same thing for you that your usual pill is already doing, and won't give you any extra protection. Your regul...

About STIs, that guy is ill-informed and irresponsible. With most STIs, it's more common that they show no symptoms at all. So, someone having no symptoms tells them and us nothing about their STI status. The only way he could know if he has an STI or not is to get tested. I'm really sorry he's land...

The tissue of the vaginal walls is delicate, so if you were having sex that was a little too rough, yes, that could cause small tears and nicks that bleed a little. You'll just want to be gentle with yourself for a few days to let it heal, like you would any other part of your body. If the sex was r...

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(My responses here to you are a little slower than I'd like: I'm sorry for that! We're a bit lower on staff than we'd like, for probably obvious reasons this week, so we're working more thinly than we'd ideally choose.) If someone's feeling very freaked out about anything, I'd say that's an indicati...

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Okay. I'm going to ask a few more questions, because there can be various things behind something like this, and we can never know the answer straight away :) So I'm not intending to be intrusive! If any of them do feel too much for you to want to answer, that's absolutely fine. You said "recen...

just adding a note here that it really depends which herbal medicines, per what side effects are possible. "Herbal" or "natural" does not automatically mean "mild" or "harmless" or that it can only be good. Herbal medicines are medicines, and they can be as po...

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When you start masturbating, do you already feel very turned on and into it? Arousal is mostly in the mind rather than in the body, so I'm checking that we're starting on the same page about that

I'm really sorry that he did that: it was wrong of him, and he shouldn't have. Clearly, he didn't have your permission to take off the condom, but he also knew that you did NOT want him to, because you told him. He should have respected and followed what you wanted for your own body, because only yo...

Welcome to the boards. Basically, you need enough hormone from the pill in your system for it to do its job properly. If you don't start taking it again when you should after your pill-free week, you can't be sure that there's enough to protect you from pregnancy. It doesn't vanish all at once, thou...

It's possible, yes, in the same way that if someone with a cold coughs right next to you, you'll often catch that cold, but you won't always. With chlamydia, the only way to know would be if one partner tests positive and the other tests negative. There'd be a high risk of passing on chlamydia with ...

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kabith, just wanted to say thank you. For your thoughts behind this, and for doing this. It's a weird and ungood time right now, and of all things, it was this that made me teary. We couldn't do what we do without you, nor without any and all other folk reading along who've done the same. Thank you ...

Adding to what Ashleah said: it looks like these kinds of lawsuits are not a brand-new thing. Given that I also don't know of any particular safety concerns, I'm rock-solid sure that there aren't big concerns over Mirena, because there's no way in any universe that Heather (our Executive Director) w...

I'm so very glad to be able to do it, and you're very welcome. Thank you for such a wonderful thank you! It's the loveliest thing anyone's said to me all week, and heavens, if there were ever a week for receiving that, it'd be this one. Starting with your last paragraph: yep, that makes sense to me....

It sounds like you're taking your pill correctly. A difference of an hour or two won't have any impact on its effectiveness. It's unrealistic for anyone to think they'll have the perfect use effectiveness rate for a user-controlled method like the pill, because that'd mean not making a single mistak...