sex education

Since there are so many different pill brands, so much information to sort through, and since with adolescents and/or young adults information on some aspects can vary slightly, and we get so many questions about the pill, it seems it's high time to give the most basic rundown I can speaking to...

You've been having unprotected sex. That means you have been at risk of pregnancy and well as sexually transmitted infections. The pregnancy risk is moderate to high, depending on your fertility, and your partner's sexual habits (as in, if he has ejaculated recently before unprotected intercourse...

Sara: so long as you took the test properly, at this stage of the game, there's earnestly no reason to be concerned you're pregnant. With emergency contraception, it's normal to have both or either some menstrual cycle kookiness for a little while, and/or some unexplained vaginal bleeding. That...

Unprotected intercourse, with or without ejaculation, poses high risks of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The pregnancy risk is substantially smaller than had there been full ejaculation, but it still may be a risk. Not knowing when this happened, if it has been less than 120...

Good on you for doing so much research, but if you're using the birth control pill, then you're not ovulating, nor most fertile at any given time. The combined pill suppresses ovulation, so there's no sense in charting when you're on it, because there isn't anything TO chart: your fertility status -...

The short answer is that it is possible, yes, but is not very likely. The longer answer is that there are a lot of variables, and we still need more study to be done on this to give a better answer. Do we know that pre-ejaculate fluid can contain sperm? Yes, we do. We also know that there are far...

This is absolutely, positively, no cause for concern. Sperm can't live in dried semen, and generally only thrive in moist semen that is outside the body (save in a lab environment where it's carefully preserved) for about 20 minutes at a maximum. Too, when people with penises urinate, there...

None of this has anything to do with how much you masturbate. Nor is this likely about something that's wrong with your penis. I am, however, seeing a few issues here that are either misinformed or not as they should be which are the likely culprits. For starters, understand that the vagina really...

First up, good onya, J, for thinking about these things in advance, despite that fact that you've been so unprepared to do so by your community! Here's the scoop on condoms for you. Effectiveness & Use: With perfect use, condoms are HIGHLY effective, around 98%. Perfect use means a few things. It...

You know, what "sex" even IS differs for everyone. There are a world of sexual activities out there -- oral sex, manual sex, intercourse, anal play, role play, frottage, the works -- and how each person does them isn't only different from person to person, but from partnership to partnership, and...