Here you'll find the highlights and history of our media appearances and mentions, as well as how (and if) to contact us if you'd like to get our take, feature us or otherwise talk with us for all kinds of media.
Search
- Clove Kelly Hernandez
I am an autistic, genderfluid lesbian, and I experience these identifiers as tightly intertwined.
You've landed on our always-expanding glossary! We hope it serves you well and answers all of your elucidatory desires!
Want to read books or zines by our staff, volunteers, writers, artists or partners? You'll find a list of them here!
- Gretchen Sisson
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real.
- Sam Wall
- Heather Corinna
Scarleteen Confidential is a series written for parents and other supportive adults where we share what young people have shared with us.
- Heather Corinna
- Sam Wall
- Jenna Gaarde
- Claire P
Quickies are simplified versions of some of our most-read, best-loved content made for those with learning disabilities, young users, or those new to sex ed.
- Samantha Benac
Feel like you haven't quite found your footing in the bedroom yet? Join the club. Exploring sex and sexuality is a lifelong process; it's impossible to ever have it all figured out, especially right out of the gate. It's also hard to feel confident about something shiny and new, whatever it is...
- Alice Oshima
We explore mainstream porn in this piece: media available for free on tube sites, and that isn't explicitly or intentionally feminist, queer, or alternative.
- Caitlyn Tivy PT, DPT, OCS
Sexual trauma impacts the mind and body in unique ways, and it can leave footprints in the form of physical, mental, and emotional impacts.
- s.e. smith
- Mo Ranyart
Polyamory, sometimes called non-monogamy or open relationships, is a big subject with a lot to talk about, so we'll start at the beginning: with a definition. You’ll see it defined a lot of ways, but here’s one we like: Being interested in or pursuing intimate relationships (emotional and/or sexual)...
- s.e. smith
This is not the be-all-end-all guide to sex and disability because a) it's not, and b) there just can't ever be such a thing with any guide to sex. This series, much like your entire sexual life, is a work in progress and an endless, ongoing conversation. We hope this can be a good place for you to...
- Caitlyn Tivy PT, DPT, OCS
Pelvis Problems is a series created and written for Scarleteen by Caitlyn Tivy, a pelvic health physical therapist, that focuses on health issues she encounters in her work as a PT and what readers living with them can do about them.
- Lisa Laman
Lisa Laman is an autistic, transfeminine person, and she's here to help you through your dating and relationship experiences through the lens of her own.
- Heather Corinna
FBIs -- what we're calling frequently bothersome issues -- are kinds of genital illness or discomfort that people get with or without sexual activity in the mix. Find out all about these, how you can prevent them, and what to do about them if you suspect or know you have one.
- Jacob Mirzaian
- Al Washburn
Our identities and histories can be important and awesome, but they can also be a little difficult to figure out. What happens when your ideas about who you are clash with each other, or when you don’t feel like you fit anywhere at all? Perhaps you think you identify with words like ‘bisexual’ or...
- Janel Hamner
- Al Washburn
- Finn Black
- Heather Corinna
- s.e. smith
- Robin Mandell
Clear and in-depth information about all known and current infections or other kinds of illness that can be transmitted through consensual sex, sexual violence or other kinds of intimate contact.
- s.e. smith
In this series, we explore being transgender, what to expect from any transition, how to have fun and safe sex while trans, and much, much more.
This series walks you through a series of decisions to help you find the best birth control method or methods for yourself.
- Sarah Kiser MSN, RN, CPNP-PC
How does a person explore sexuality, sexual identity or sexual interactions without feeling awkward? There are loads of things you can do!
All about dilators -- also known as vaginal trainers -- and how to use them.
A button to randomly pull up one of any of the thousands of articles, advice columns or other text-based pieces ever published at Scarleteen.
- Kelli Dunham RN BSN
It's normal to be apprehensive about any significant life change, especially one that has potentially irreversible impacts on our body.
- Caitlyn Tivy PT, DPT, OCS
The last installment in a series on the physical effects of sexual trauma. To conclude the series, we’re talking about talking: namely, how to talk with sexual partners about any physical effects that you have experienced as a survivor of sexual trauma.