What is teen sexual health?
Teen sexual health is about how sex affects your physical and emotional health. It means knowing how to form healthy relationships and making decisions about sex that are right for you.
As your body changes during puberty, how you think, feel, and interact with others also changes. You may have new feelings
What are pubic lice?
Pubic lice (also called crabs) are tiny insects which usually live in the pubic or genital area of humans. They are also sometimes found on other coarse body hair, such as hair on the legs, armpits, mustache, beard, eyebrows, or eyelashes. Pubic lice on the eyebrows or eyelashes of children or teens
Puberty is the time in life when a boy or girl becomes sexually mature. It is a process that usually happens between ages 10 and 14 for girls and ages 12 and 16 for boys. It causes physical changes, and affects boys and girls differently.
In girls:
The first sign of puberty is usually breast development.
Then
Members of the LGBTQIA+ community include people who are:
Lesbian
Gay
Bisexual
Transgender
Queer or Questioning
Intersex
Asexual
Elsewhere on the gender and sexuality spectrum or allies to the community
On this page you’ll find information about health issues that are specific to the LGBTQIA+ community.Related IssuesAnswers to Your Questions about Transgender People, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression American Psychological AssociationAnswers to Your Questions
Sexual abuse is one form of child abuse. It includes a wide range of actions between a child and an adult or older child. Often these involve body contact, but not always. Exposing one’s genitals to children or pressuring them for sex is sexual abuse. Using a child for pornography is also sexual abuse.
Most sexual
What are body lice?
Body lice (also called clothes lice) are tiny insects which live and lay nits (lice eggs) on clothing. They are parasites, and they need to feed on human blood to survive. They usually only move to the skin to feed.
Body lice are one of the three types of lice that live on