S.E.X. : the all-you-need-to-know sexuality guide to get you through your teens and twenties

As a teen or emerging adult, dealing with all the changes going on in your life, body, and mind can be mighty overwhelming. When it comes to sex, everyone seems to have strong feelings and opinions about who you should be and what you should (shouldn't) do. How do you decide who to listen to? Heather Corinna and Scarleteen have provided sex education and information to millions of young people, parents, and mentors since 1998; S.E.X. tackles all the big topics:Self-image and how to find and claim your own sexual self, How to best protect and support your sexual and emotional health, Sorting out gender and sexual identities, even when they're complicated and confusing, The latest on contraceptive methods and other reproductive choices, sexually transmitted infections, and safer sex, Finding, creating, and managing healthy and happy relationships, How to set and respect limits and boundaries, and rock consent, Identifying, preventing, or healing from abuse or assault.

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ISBN: 9780738218847
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462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Publisher Boston, MA : Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2016.

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S. E. X. , Second Edition : The All-You-Need-To-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Thank You	p. xiii
	Foreword	p. xvii
	Judy Norsigian and Wendy Sanford, cofounders, The Boston Women's Health Collective, and coauthors of Our Bodies, Ourselves
	Who's Tills look for, Anyway?	p. 1
	A Foreword for Parents, Teachers, Mentors, and Other People Who Care About Teens and Emerging Adults
1	Pledge Allegiance ... to Myself and the United State of My Sexuality:	p. 11
	An Introduction for Readers
2	Your Sexuality and Your Body: An Owner's Manual	p. 14
	What Is "Sexuality"?	p. 14
	What Can Be Part of Sexuality?	p. 15
	Circles of Sexuality	p. 16
	Let's Talk About Sex	p. 19
	Mega-Metamorphosis: Puberty	p. 20
	Braaaaaaaaiiiinnns	p. 24
	Tingly Bits	p. 25
	Reproductive and Sexual Anatomy: What's Up Down There?	p. 26
	Every Body's Got One	p. 26
	You've Got Some Nerve!	p. 27
	The Vulva, Vagina, and Uterus: From the Outside In	p. 27
	Clit Lit	p. 28
	Life on the Inside	p. 30
	The Menstrual Cycle. Period	p. 33
	Where Can Aunt Flo Go? Menses Management	p. 35
	When the Rag's a Drag	p. 37
	Breast Basics	p. 39
	The Penis and Testes: From the Outside In	p. 41
	The Foreskin (or Not)	p. 42
	Life on the Inside	p. 43
	Vasocongestion (aka Blue Balls)	p. 47
	Too Loose/Too Tight! Too Long/Too Short! Too Large/Too Small! Or, What Goldilocks and the Three Bears Have to Do with Your Genitals	p. 48
	What's "Normal" Down There?	p. 55
3	The Problem with Perfect: Body Image: Or, Why Appearance Isn't All It Appears	p. 56
	Body linage	p. 57
	Ten Bodacious Ways to Boost Body Image	p. 57
	Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders	p. 61
	Don't Make a Mate a Minor	p. 62
	Who's at Risk of Disordered Eating, Body Image, or Self-Image Problems?	p. 63
	The Ideal Spiel	p. 64
	Whole Body/Whole Sexy	p. 66
	Viva la RevoluciÃ³n!	p. 67
4	Sex Starts with You: Arousal, Orgasm, Masturbation, and Fantasy	p. 69
	Arousal and Orgasm: Human Sexual Response Coming and Going	p. 69
	The Basics of Sexual Response	p. 70
	Sexual Desire	p. 70
	Annual	p. 71
	Plateau	p. 72
	Orgasm	p. 72
	Resolution	p. 74
	Ejaculation	p. 75
	How Do You Tell If You've Had an Orgasm? What If You Just Can't Have One, Ever?	p. 76
	Buzzkills	p. 77
	Masturbation: A Sexual Solo	p. 78
	False and True	p. 79
	How Do You Masturbate?	p. 80
	Keeping It Safe	p. 81
	But Only Losers Masturbate!	p. 82
	How Much Is Too Much?	p. 82
	Fantasy Fodder: Sexual Fantasy	p. 83
	Which Fantasies Are Okay, and Which Aren't?	p. 84
	And Your First Sex Partner Is ... ?	p. 84
5	So Much More Than Either/Or: Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation	p. 86
	Genderpalooza! A Sex and Gender Primer	p. 86
	Beyond the Binary	p. 91
	Trans-lation	p. 92
	Transition	p. 92
	Gender Confirmation Surgery	p. 93
	Transphobia, Discrimination, and Bias	p. 93
	Gendermending	p. 95
	How to Be Transfriendly and Subvert Crummy Gender and Orientation Stereotypes in Five Easy Steps!	p. 96
	The Rainbow Connection: The Spectrum of Sexual Orientation	p. 97
	What Do All These Words Mean?	p. 97
	Feeling, Not Just Doing	p. 101
	How Do I Know if I'm?	p. 102
	To Be or Not to Be: Is Sexual Orientation a Choice?	p. 102
	What Does It Mean to Be Queer, Bisexual, or Pansexual?	p. 105
	"Bad" Words	p. 106
	Coming Out	p. 108
	A Basic How-To	p. 110
6	You, Me, and Everyone Else: Big Outside Influences on Your Sexuality	p. 116
	Your Family	p. 117
	What Makes a Family?	p. 119
	Your Friends and Peers	p. 120
	How to Ask Family or Friends to Turn Down the Volume	p. 122
	Media	p. 124
	What's "Media"?	p. 124
	Not Just What, but How	p. 127
	Sexual Entertainment Media	p. 128
	Pornography: Not Realistic Since Ever	p. 129
	All/Most/Some Sexual Media or Entertainment	p. 130
	The Worst of Us, Sexified	p. 131
	How Should We Feel About Sexual Entertainment?	p. 132
	"They Saw It in Porn, So Now They Want and Expect It from Me"	p. 134
	Making Sense of External Messages and Hearing Your Own Voice	p. 136
7	On Board the Relationship	p. 139
	Relationship Should Be a Verb	p. 140
	The Scariest Tiling on Earth (or So You'd Think): Rejection	p. 140
	Dating: Different, Not a Dinosaur	p. 142
	Relationship Models: What Works for You?	p. 147
	Closed or Open?	p. 149
	Dating and Relationships 3.0	p. 153
	How Do Yon Find a Fantastic Relationship, Anyway?	p. 154
	On the Other Hand	p. 155
	In-Person Big Plans: Made Best in Person	p. 156
	Basic Online Safely	p. 156
	Safety Dance!	p. 158
	When Run, Don't Walk Is the Catchphrase	p. 158
	Without a Map: Relationships Outside the Box	p. 158
	Those Three Little Words	p. 163
	The Test of Time: Long-Term Relationships	p. 164
	What's Typical in Long-Term Relationships?	p. 165
	Looking Toward the Future	p. 167
	In Conflict	p. 168
	Conflict Resolution: A Crash Course	p. 169
	Dysfunction Junction: The Crummy Stuff	p. 171
	The Great Escape	p. 172
	Adventures in Splitsville: Breakups and How to Deal	p. 175
	When Is It Time?	p. 175
	How Do You Do It?	p. 176
	Healthy/Unhealthy	p. 176
	The Mourning After	p. 178
	"Just" Friends?	p. 180
8	To Be, or Not to Be ... Sexually Active	p. 182
	"It"	p. 184
	The Sexual Readiness Checklist	p. 186
	Great Sexpectations	p. 188
	Get Real: Unrealistic Expectations and Scenarios	p. 189
	No Harm, No Foul: Limits and Boundaries	p. 191
	Consenting	p. 192
	A (Not So) Basic Consent How-To	p. 194
	Explicit Consent: Using Words	p. 194
	Nonexplicit Consent	p. 196
	Accepting and Respecting Nonconsent	p. 199
	Considering Your Ethics, Beliefs, Culture, and Values	p. 200
	What's the Right Age for Sex?	p. 203
	To Plan or Not to Plan, That's the Question	p. 203
	Lights, Camera, Action!	p. 203
	Worst-Case Scenarios	p. 204
	But Wait-	p. 205
	Being a Prude (and Other Really Crappy Names for Choosing Not to Be Sexually Active)	p. 205
	Intimacy: Bonding Basics	p. 206
	Are You Mental? Yes!	p. 207
	Virginity: Past and Present	p. 207
	So, Who's a Virgin and Who Isn't?	p. 208
	Be a Blabbermouth! Communicating with Partners About Sex	p. 209
	How to Talk About Sex	p. 209
	Speaking Your Own Language	p. 212
	Body of Evidence: Legal Issues and Your Sex Life	p. 212
	How to Work the System So It Doesn't Work You	p. 221
9	Popular Mechanics: The Ins and Outs of Sex with Partners	p. 223
	Kissing	p. 225
	Petting/Massage	p. 226
	Mutual Masturbation	p. 228
	Frottage or "Dry Sex"	p. 228
	Manual Sex	p. 229
	Oral Sex: Cunnilingus	p. 231
	Oral Sex: Fellatio	p. 231
	Oral Sex: Analingus	p. 232
	Vaginal Intercourse	p. 234
	Hip to the Hype: Common Intercourse Problems and Expectations	p. 236
	Anal Sex/Intercourse	p. 239
	Sexting, Cybersex, or Phone Sex	p. 242
	Sensation Play	p. 243
	"Kinky" Sex	p. 243
	Role-Play	p. 243
	Bondage/Restraint	p. 246
	Body Fluid or Blood Play	p. 247
	Sex Toys	p. 247
	Yes, No, Maybe So: A What-You-Want-and-How-You-Want-It Sex Checklist	p. 250
	The Ol' Give-and-Take: Sexual Symmetry, Reciprocity, and Equality	p. 255
	Reciprocity, Reloaded	p. 255
	Sex and Obligation	p. 256
	Faking It	p. 257
	Having Trouble Reaching Orgasm or Feeling Aroused with a Partner?	p. 257
	Who's in Charge?	p. 259
	Sexual Differences vs. Sexual Incompatibility	p. 259
	Aftercare	p. 260
	"Queer" Sex and "Straight" Sex: What's the Diff?	p. 260
	Sex and Disability	p. 261
	The Popular Mechanics Roundup: The Five Most Important Things to Remember During Partnered Sex	p. 262
10	Safe and Sound: Safer Sex for Your Body, Heart, and Mind	p. 264
	Taking Care Down There: Sexual Health Care	p. 264
	Your Business, Their Business: Healthcare Confidentiality and Privacy	p. 265
	Before Your First Sexual Health Appointment	p. 266
	Who Provides Sexual or Reproductive Health Care?	p. 267
	Sexual Health Care for Beginners	p. 267
	Sexual Healthcare Discrimination: Roadblocks to Good Health	p. 273
	DIY Sexual Health Care	p. 276
	Check Yourself Out!	p. 277
	Urinary Tract, Bacterial, and Yeast Infections	p. 280
	Safer Sex 101	p. 285
	Quick STI Risk Assessment	p. 286
	Practicing Safer Sex: A Lesson in Three Parts	p. 287
	Why Practice Safer Sex?	p. 288
	Safer Sex, Part One: Barriers and Other Gear	p. 288
	Condoms	p. 288
	Dental Dams	p. 295
	Safer Sex, Part Two: Testing and Annual Sexual Health Exams	p. 297
	Safer Sex, Part Three: Lifestyle Issues...	p. 300
	Easy Ways to Incorporate Safer Sex into Your Sex Life	p. 302
	"Don't You Trust Me?"	p. 303
	What If Your Partner Won't Practice Safer Sex?	p. 304
	What If You Do Get an STI?	p. 305
	How to Make Disclosing an STI Easier	p. 307
11	Harm's Way: Abuse and Assault (and What You Can Do About Them)	p. 310
	The Ugly Truth: Statistics	p. 312
	More Vulnerable = More Vulnerable to Abuse	p. 312
	Types of Abuse	p. 313
	Abuse Does All This	p. 318
	"But I Love Them"	p. 319
	The Cycle of Abuse	p. 320
	Taking the Blinders Off; Identifying and Coping with Interpersonal Violence and Abuse	p. 321
	Listen, Tell, Leave	p. 323
	Breaking the Cycle	p. 326
	Protecting Yourself from Abusive Partners and Relationships	p. 329
	Can't Happen to You?	p. 329
	Protecting Each Other from Abuse	p. 330
	If You or Someone You Know Has Just Been Sexually Abused or Assaulted	p. 331
	Bystander Intervention Basics	p. 332
	Healing and Dealing	p. 338
	Healing 101	p. 339
12	To Be or Not to Be ... Pregnant: Contraception	p. 344
	No Birds, No Bees, No Bull: How Conception Really Happens	p. 347
	The Birth Control Breakdown	p. 351
	Abstinence	p. 353
	Barrier Methods	p. 354
	Condoms	p. 355
	Diaphragms and Cervical Caps	p. 356
	Contraceptive Sponge	p. 358
	Hormonal Methods	p. 359
	Combined Oral Contraceptives, aka the Pill or BCP	p. 360
	The Vaginal Ring	p. 362
	The Patch	p. 363
	The Injection (Depo-Provera)	p. 364
	The Implant	p. 365
	IUDs	p. 366
	Emergency Contraception (EC)	p. 368
	Birth Control Methods Not Generally Recommended for Young People	p. 370
	Withdrawal (aka "Pulling Out")	p. 370
	Fertility Charting/Natural Family Planning (FAM)	p. 371
	Permanent Birth Control (Sterilization)	p. 373
	What Isn't a Method of Birth Control?	p. 373
	It Doesn't Take a Village ... but It's Awfully Nice to Have One: Birth Control Discussion with Partners and Parents	p. 374
	Discussion with Partners	p. 374
	Reproductive Choice, Sans Uterus	p. 377
	Discussions with Parents	p. 380
13	Oh, Baby (or Not)! Reproduction and Reproductive Options	p. 382
13	How Can You Tell If You're Pregnant?	p. 382
	How Long Have You Got to Decide?	p. 383
	Pregnancy and Delivery Basics	p. 384
	Labor Day	p. 386
	Miscarriage: What It Is and Why It Happens	p. 388
	Reproductive Options: Parenting, Adoption, and Abortion	p. 391
	Parenthood	p. 391
	Young Adult Parenting: Perils, Pitfalls, and Perks	p. 391
	If You're Considering Parenting	p. 396
	The Adoption Option	p. 396
	Abortion: Terminating a Pregnancy	p. 398
	Medical Abortion	p. 398
	Surgical Abortion	p. 399
	What to Expect During an Abortion	p. 400
	Unloading a Loaded Issue	p. 402
	To Tell or Not to Tell	p. 404
	How to Tell Partners and Parents About an Unexpected Pregnancy	p. 404
	Telling Partners	p. 405
	Telling Parents	p. 407
	For the "Dads"	p. 408
	Big Impacts, Big Choices	p. 409
14	How to Change the World (Without Even Getting Out of Bed!)	p. 411
Appendix A	Common Sexually Transmitted Infections: STIs from A to Z	p. 415
Appendix B	Bibliography and Recommended Resources	p. 428
	The People in Your Neighborhood: Your DIY Local Resource Page	p. 445
	Index	p. 447

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