Welcome to summer, time of vacations and summer flings!  I was on vacation in Florida with friends (hence, no post for a stupidly long time).  I ended up talking with the three other adults who I went with about our experiences as teenagers on vacation.  Our experiences ran the gamut - from flings on every [...]

On of the activities I do with my middle school students is have them role-play saying “No” to sexual advances and requests for a date.  I do this not because I think they are in the thick of needing to say no to would-be-suitors and would-be-sexual partners, but because they will eventually be in the [...]

This is actually an old post.  But I have had many requests for it again recently, and so thought it was worth bumping back up to the front for a day.  And yes, this is something to show your teenagers if you think they’re thinking about starting to - or have already started - having [...]

I am, as you may remember, an editor for the Personal section of Blog Nosh Magazine. It’s great fun, mostly because I get to peruse old posts on great blogs and call it work. We take old posts that have fallen off the front page of other blogs and re-post them on Blog [...]

May blog

This post is written by guest blogger JustAnotherTeen
The transition from high school to college can be a difficult one for both parents and teenagers. Although my transition will not be nearly the same since I have essentially lived in a supervised college setting for the last three years, I can understand the transition and [...]

Last week I wrote the first and the second parts of this series. I apologize for the longer-than-planned interlude before this, the third part!
Here is my position: Having sex with another person is a privilege, and with privilege comes responsibility. Hence, having sex with another person necessitates a level of responsibility both to [...]

Yesterday I posted the first half of my interview with Sarah Dopp about her gender and sexual identity. We spoke about how she defines herself and how that has developed through her life and within her social networks. Today we talk about family.
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KR: Have you talked with your parents about your gender and [...]

Several weeks ago a young woman contacted me. With her permission, I am posting her question:
Karen, there is this guy I like a lot and I think he likes me a lot. We work together and I really [...]

 (Written by guest blogger Wendy Harlowe.)
I said I would write about substance abuse and adolescent sexuality, but I am amending that. I think there are plenty of people who use alcohol and drugs without abusing them (experimentation lies in this realm), but I think my opinions still stand.
Instances of rape (including date rape) are [...]

Conventional wisdom suggests that teenage boys have one thing on their minds. And it’s not history class. Statistics that support this theory abound: Teenage boys have testosterone surges multiple times a day. Teenage boys think about sex an average of every 28 seconds. The theories go on.
A study was recently [...]