For Young People

What is Sexuality?

Teen's Sexual Rights

Tips for Talking About Sexuality

What is Sexual Orientation?

Sexual Choices

Feeling Good Means Feeling Safe

How Do I know If I'm Ready For Sex?

Safer Sex

How Are HIV & STDs Spread?

Sexual Abuse


Hotlines

Web Sites For More Information

Facts on Sexuality-Related Issues for Young People: A SIECUS Annotated Bibliography

SIECUS Resources for Families

This is a starting place for teens to learn about sexuality issues. It's about how to Talk About Sex...and to help yourself feel good and stay healthy.

It's about knowing your goals, learning how to achieve them and how to get there. It's all about making and keeping choices true to yourself.

Let's talk about how to express yourself and take care of yourself, all of yourself. Sex? Yes, sex is something we need to talk about before we do something about it. These pages can help.


Talk About Sex
Talk About Sex provides young people with basic information about a range of sexuality topics as well as referrals to reputable websites for more information. More than a brochure, but less than a book, SIECUS' new "minibook" includes "chapters" entitled: What is Sexuality; Sexual Rights; Basic Biology; Staying Healthy; Gender Identity; Sexual Orientation; Relationships; Communication Skills; Choosing What to Do; Sexual Behavior; Sexual Response; Sexual Abuse; Birth Control; STDs/HIV; and Find Out More.


Take Action! Government Website is Misinforming Your Parents


Have you got a personal question? Here's a list of other organizations that have web sites designed to help answer your sexuality questions.

Ask Beth
http://www.ppsp.org/askbeth/askbeth.asp

Coalition for Positive Sexuality: Sex Ed for Teens
http://www.positive.org/Home/index.html

Go Ask Alice!
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu

iwannaknow.org
http://www.iwannaknow.org

Scarleteen
http://www.scarleteen.com

SEX, etc.
http://www.sxetc.org

Teenwire
http://www.teenwire.com


Hosted by teens for teens, teenwire.com radio covers a range of sexual health topics. To tune in, click on the banner above.

Want your questions answered or your comments to be heard? If so, e-mail twradio@ppfa.org. Once a month, their teen hosts and sexual health experts will address your most pressing sexuality-related questions.


THE HEAR ME PROJECT

POSITIVELY NEGATIVE HIV/AIDS

2005 STORY WRITING CONTEST


We know you have something to say about sex, so SIECUS asked for your thoughts and opinions. You could have written about any sexuality-related topic including:

  • Sexuality Education. Why is it that adults in the United States can't seem to agree on what, if anything, teens should learn about sex in school?
  • HIV/AIDS. What’s it like to be the first generation that has grown up in a world that always included HIV and AIDS?
  • Sex Is Everywhere. How does it make you feel to live in world where the media tells you how you should look, what you should wear, and what is considered sexy?

Here’s what you had to say:

These articles are included in the April/May 2003 SIECUS Report, “Young People Talk About Sex”.


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