Topic: Sexual Health

I’ve heard that you can break your hymen by riding a horse or doing a split. Is this true? If not, why, and what can make the hymen break? The […]

Emergency contraception (EC) is a safe treatment to help prevent pregnancy in adolescent girls and adult women who have had unprotected sex. EC works before a women’s body ovulates, preventing […]

Is it ok to use small scissors and a mirror and trim your pubic hair, just along the underwear/swimsuit line where the hair sticks out? I don’t want to remove […]

Bi-curious isn’t necessarily a term that you’ll find in a dictionary, but it’s a word that some people use to describe an attraction – “being inquisitive or curious about same […]

This is an interesting question! Although there’s a lot more published research about wet dreams in males, there are limited studies that show that girls/women can experience something similar to […]

You can get pregnant if you have intercourse and a male releases his sperm inside of your vagina. You can also get pregnant if the male removes his penis from […]

The answer to this question depends on how you define “virginity.”  There’s no medical definition of “virginity.” You may decide you’re a virgin until you’ve had penis-in-vagina sex, until you’ve […]

If you look up the word “orgasm” in your biology book, you’ll likely find a definition such as “the climax of sexual excitement with increased blood flow to the genitals […]

Oral sex is when a person uses their mouth for sexual contact with their partner’s penis, vagina or rectum. If a girl “receives” oral sex, it means that her partner […]

It’s not uncommon for youth and teens to wonder about their gender identity at some point or another. Many people, in fact, view themselves ‘somewhere on the continuum’ between male […]