Info For Teens
This site is still under construction, but we plan to provide links to high quality educational sexuality sites that are safe for teens to access.
If you're under 18, it is a serious crime to access adult graphic sexual material. While this may seem silly, particularly when there are many teenagers not only having sex themselves, but also having babies, it is the LAW. Regulations like this are put into place to protect minors.
I can hear the groans already - you don't need to be protected from seeing sexual content, right? Whether that's true or not isn't up for me to decide, but I'm willing to bet that you wouldn't want some 40 year old guy sending naked pictures of himself to your little sister. Gross and also a criminal offense, with good reason!
For teens who are actively searching the internet for sexual material, this is a little tougher. Nobody wants to see Pamela Anderson go to jail because some horny 16 year old got access to nude pictures of her. So those EXIT links are put in place, adult sites register their pages with filtering sites and hopefully most of the graphic content gets placed in a private "members only" area.
Unfortunately, not all sites are very responsible when it comes to preventing minors from accessing adult content. While you may think this is a good thing, I can tell you from personal experience that you really don't want your first exposure to sex to be via some nasty porn site. The majority of adult websites do not show sex in a natural, normal, HEALTHY way.
This isn't a "Drugs are bad, mmmkay" pat on the head warning. Seriously. There are some messed up sexual kinks and the anonymous nature of the internet means all the freaks come out.
The "normal" way that young men and women discover their own sexuality is experimenting with someone they really care about. That might mean waiting until marriage or it might mean only waiting until you've found a partner that you can trust and you both feel ready. Either way, the important part is figuring out what feels good on your own terms. Seeing some bizarre sex act on the internet and then trying it when you hook up with someone because you *think* that's what everybody else is doing is a recipe for disaster, not to mention dangerous.
There is tons of information available for teens to learn about safe sex, including some excellent forums where you can ask questions anonymously without worrying about some creepy predators that are going to show up on Dateline next week.
Here's the best place to start: