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Gabrielle Kassel (she/they) is a queer sex educator and sex journalist with more than a decade of experience creating content at the intersection of queerness, sexual health, and pleasure. In addition to Scarleteen, their work has appeared in publications such as Cosmopolitan, Well+Good, Women’s…

Surgical blocking of the vasa deferentia (each vas deferens) for permanent birth control.

Describes sexual play and/or relationships involving exchanges of power and pain. B = bondage, D = discipline and/or dominance, S = submission and/or sadism, M = masochism.

In the context of gender the process of exploring, expressing and affirming your gender, particularly if and when it doesn’t align with a sex you were assigned at birth.

Friendships, romantic and sexual relationships, relationships at work, at home, or at school. Dating, breakups, conflicts, red flags and communication.

Describes something which does not exclude others in some way, which is open.