It may seem silly to address a topic that many of us had explained when we were very young. Unfortunately, very few of us had it explained well, leaving a good many with no idea what the birds and the bees really mean to our everyday sexual lives. Every day someone at Scarleteen asks if this, that or the other thing is a pregnancy risk, or how they can tell if they are pregnant, or how they can even get pregnant in the first place. It isn't stupid or immature not to know the answers to these questions. Clearly, it is something to be concerned with, something most people DON'T understand, and something most people aren't so lucky with after all.
Many young adults are often more worried about pregnancy than about STDs.
At Scarleteen, we think you should be concerned with both of them equally, and have a good handle on understanding the whole of your sexual anatomy, reproduction, and the risks involved with practicing sex with a partner. Just as many people who don't understand safer sex end up with a disease or infection, many people who don't understand basic reproduction end up pregnant. Whenever we can, it goes without saying that a pregnancy that is usually the happiest, healthiest and the most life-sustaining for everyone, is the one that we come to prepared for and by choice. Yet we can't very well make sound choices if we don't understand the whole process. That can be said for every aspect of sexuality and your life as a whole.