Teen Sex Glossary

Booty call: An early morning or late night call to make a sex date that involves no relationship or emotional attachment

Dirty: A girl who has an STD. (Notice that there isn't a slang word for a boy with an STD.)

Friends with benefits: A sexual relationship between platonic friends. The relationship is supposed to be emotionally safe because this is someone they trust. However, there are still complicated feelings involved.

Heterosexuality: The sexual norm throughout most of the country; but less important depending on where you live and who you hang with.

High five (High V): A person who is HIV positive

Hooking up: (multiple definitions). For some, hooking up refers to kissing and touching; for others, hooking up may refer to oral sex or intercourse.

Hoover: To have an abortion

Oral sex: A sexual act rather than sex. It's not considered sex because you can't get pregnant, and you can still stay a virgin. (Unfortunately, many teens erroneously believe that you can't get an STD from oral sex.)

Playa (player), also "pretty boy": Someone who is sexually involved with many people

Pearl necklace: When a man ejaculates around his partner's neck and throat

Rainbow parties: Parties where several girls wearing different colored lipstick perform oral sex on a boy and leave a rainbow of colors on his penis

Sex: Intercourse (because you can get pregnant and you can get a disease)

Give Your Teens the Proper Tools

• Make your own opinion clear. If you feel that your teen is not ready for sex, tell her so.

• Encourage safe sex and condom use, and keep some handy in the bathroom cabinet. Also, suggest your teens buy their own so they can be sexually responsible.

• Encourage your daughter to see a gynecologist annually once she becomes sexually active (or turns 18, whichever comes first).

• Discuss consensual sex with your son so that you're sure he gets it-and tell both sons and daughters that they have the right to say no to any type of intimacy they don't want.

• Assure your teen that a choice for abstinence is an option, one which may change over time.

These life lessons can positively affect the way that your teens grow into mature sexual adults.

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Issue: September 2007