Gurl
I’ve known about this website for a while, but I thought I would share it with you all out there in case you haven’t seen it! It’s called Gurl.com. It’s a site geared towards teenage girls 13 and up. The site is committed to discussing issues that affect teenagers in a nonjudgmental, personal way. And I think it’s amazing! It breaks everything down into terms that teenagers can understand!
For example it has an amazing section on the difference between gender and sex. They give a great analogy to talk about how gender and sex are connected:
Think about a coat rack. Sex is the physical structure of the coat rack. Gender is what you hang on the coat rack — it’s the coats and hats and maybe that weird poncho your mom makes you wear in the rain.
Then there are the Deal With It! Charts. One is about birth control methods. It gives various birth control methods, talks about the effectiveness against STDs and the effectiveness against pregnancy. Very informational and easy to understand for anyone, but it’s nice to know that the whole site was designed with girls like me in mind.