What is Birth Control? Deciding on a Method Emergency Contraception Where/How to Get Birth Control Confidentiality Using Birth Control Types of Methods & How They Work Common Myths
How It Happens Signs and Symptoms Can I Get Pregnant If… ? Emergency Contraception Testing and Options I’m Pregnant/She’s Pregnant…Parenting? Adoption? Abortion? What to Expect During Pregnancy
Andrea
Lee,
17
Andrea enjoys writing, dancing, and playing and listening to music.
This is her second year on the editorial board. She is also a peer educator
for a teen peer/sexual education group.
Sam Yospe,
18
Sam doesn’t want to tell teen readers how to think; he wants
to help them make their own decisions.
Migdalia Roman,
18
Migdalia wants to educate herself and, in turn, educate her peers on safe
sexual behavior. She believes that teens need to understand their choices.
Book Review: Hidden Love
By Emanuel Anzules, 17, Staff Writer
Have you ever been in love with someone, but something stopped you from being with him or her? Or was the feeling so powerful that you went ahead with the relationship anyway?
Summer's Open Forum: What's on Your Mind?
Extreme Makeovers: do you think teens should be allowed to get plastic surgery without a parent's consent?
Reasons to have sex: What are the most common reasons teens' have sex? Are they good reasons? What reasons do you not agree with?
Q:
Is oral sex really sex?
A:
Oral sex can give physical pleasure and orgasms, so it�s definitely a sexual behavior. Some people think oral sex is really intimate. Others, though, see it as less personal than sexual intercourse.
Keep HPV in Check
Could having a sexually transmitted infection (STI) increase your chances of getting cancer? If that STI is HPV, the human papilloma virus, and the cancer is cervical, then yes.
The night I lost my virginity, I was a few months past 16 years old. I�ve never thought of my virginity as something that I �lost.� Rather, sex is something much bigger that I have gained.
