Center For Sex and Culture

The Center for Sex & Culture is proud be a fiscal sponsor of Scarleteen, a website dedicated to providing accurate, non-judgmental sex information for teens, founded and directed by Heather Corinna.
Scarleteen is on of the top-ranked sites for young adult sexuality education on the internet:
•    Ranks in the upper 25,000 of all sites online internationally
•    Consistently rank in the top 11,000 - 12,000 of all sites in the United States
•    65 million page loads have occurred at the site from users since 2006
•    Has over 40,000 active message board users

“Scarleteen is owned and operated by Heather Corinna and a handful of international volunteers, some who are young adults themselves, and currently serves from 20,000 - 30,000 teens and young adults, as well as parents and educators, every day of the year.”

To find out more, go to http://www.scarleteen.com.

When you donate to Scarleteen through CSC, you will be supporting the following projects and more:
•    Creating and distributing outreach print materials for schools, clinics and community groups, based on content like our popular Sex Readiness Checklist, our anatomy articles, and our pieces on abuse, gender identity and sexual orientation.
•    Providing our volunteer staff extra training.  In the next year, we'd like to get a few of our staff trained or certified in either or both pregnancy options counseling and/or basic sex education.
•    Stipends for some of our volunteer writers and columnists, which will both sustain a quality of content and allow us to keep up with the frequency of updates we have had in the last year.  Paying writers also can nurture a greater diversity of voice and content.
•    Maintaining a part-time freelance developer to help us best manage and maintain the site for optimum usability.
•    A part-time, in-person assistant for myself as director.

For information on how you can donate, please call us at: 415-255-1155

From Scarleteen.com:
“We feel that the best model for lifelong sexual education is as follows:
•    Providing information which educates in ALL aspects of sexuality, for all sexes, economic classes, genders and orientations, including birth control, safer sex and sexually transmitted diseases, masturbation and self-pleasuring, anatomy, diverse sexual orientation and identification, gender roles, self-esteem, body image, sexual and romantic relationship and communication tools, and care and compassion in sexual technique and practice.
•    A nonjudgmental and unbiased attitude of tolerance and understanding for teens, whether they choose to be sexually active or abstain.
•    Tools to encourage celibacy from ANY sexual activities until reasonable readiness for them, such as information on masturbation and self-pleasuring, support for delaying activity, and do so from a standpoint of embracing safe, positive sexuality, rather than anti-sex approaches, misinformation, scare tactics, religious edicts or shaming.
•    Encouragement to know as much as possible, and from an educated standpoint, to make sound choices based on personal ethics and values gleaned from family, role models, life experience and oneself.
•    Open, ongoing and moderated conversation about sex and sexuality in a safe, supportive environment.
We feel accurate, holistic and interactive education, made as age-pertinent and appropriate as possible, allows anyone, regardless of age, to make the best choices throughout their lives.”