Sex is a big part of our adult lives, but people with maturity can keep it in perspective: having sex shouldn’t be more important than the integrity of our closest relationships.
It’s so important to try not to get hung up on the idea that what other people are doing (or not) sexually has any relevance to what we ourselves do or don’t do.
Physically, and often emotionally, sex is about both people being actively engaged, doing something together, not about one person doing something to, on or at the other.
Know what? While alcohol can reduce a person’s inhibitions, another thing it often does reduce how aroused — how turned on — a person can get.
If your girlfriend is pregnant, and does decide abortion is her best choice, having someone with her and having it paid for may be less than she needs: those are but the bare basics.
I can’t begin to tell you how many people in the world don’t know that they have oral herpes, and don’t know that cold sores are a symptom of oral herpes.
Age-in-years, all by itself, doesn’t tend to be a good marker of when someone is or is not ready for sex.
Stop talking! Start listening! Know yourself first — and seven other suggestions for parents who know they need to talk about sex with their teens.
Virginity is a cultural idea, not a medical fact, and not a particularly useful one. And masturbation is A-OK.
Despite a strain of “sin or not?” nit-picking, sex advice on Christian websites often emphasizes female pleasure and benefits of healthy sexuality.









