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Hi everyone! Thank you so much for the great responses to my last question about consent. I am back with another question! This time I'm looking for more resources on how to be a supportive adult to young people -specifically, I am looking for resources/guidance on how to support queer youth. My sister's 12 year old has recently said a few things about gender exploration and I want to feel ready to support them wherever this is going. Thank you!

I am looking for resources and guidance about how to talk to young people about consent in a meaningful way - especially young boys. I am not a parent but many of my friends have children and I want to be a positive influence for them and feel prepared for any tricky conversations. Thank you!

I’m reaching out because I want to train to become a sex and relationship coach, to support others with sexual skills, confidence and lead happier sex lives. I am based in England.

I’m struggling to find a clear path forward. Since I can’t access a careers adviser for this field, and most credited training programs I’ve found are US based, I was hoping you might point me toward UK based training, or perhaps know someone who mentors people getting started in this space. Any guidance you could offer would mean a great deal to me.

Best wishes

Natalie

I’ve been in a relationship for about 5 months now, but I want to wait till the “right moment” to have sex with my current partner.

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Hello wonderful MLNP Academy Educators and Professionals! It was so lovely seeing all of the enthusiasm and creativity sparked in our educator meetups. We are so inspired and excited for what is to come! We loved that you all decided to find accountability buddies to help with uploading content to the site, so we decided to help facilitate this in a more permanent space! Please use this thread to exchange info with other educators and professionals to be your accountability buddy for the site.

I was surprised in a positive way when I received the message that the MVP for the MLP academy has gone life. That's some great news! Looking forward to all the extra content that is going to be added in there coming weeks.

Some initial feedback To celebrate :

• Simple navigation
• Goal oriented directly the homepage with a clear search box
• Filtering on age makes it clear that it's a sex Ed site, not a porn site
• Creating an account when flawlessly
• The option to keep a personal library comes in handy

To improve

• the frontpage is a bit 'empty', no videos, pdf..
• The site seems currently more focused on the educators not on the content. On the frontpage I see a list of educators, not of actual content
• A lot of the current content drives me away of the academy site, to external websites etc.. I'm assuming that is because the site is still filling up?
• The age selector '1-18+' seems a bit "technical". I would work with age groups not defined ages. Also, I can't seem to select multiple ages.
• I needed to navigate to https://www.makelovenotporn.academy/library to discover the "explore" button which exposed me to actual content. That button 'explore' should be more visible on the homepage. *Content wise... Currently it is still a bit 'all over the place', hoping to also see some more "basic" sexed content.

Keep up the good work !

I'm a 50yo female who really wanted this education growing up in the USA. 1970s Hawaii actually taught age-appropriate ed from body parts to puberty to sex ed. Then my family moved to California where "sex ed" was reserved for high school seniors (12th grade = 17/18yo) WITH child care on campus. Good for having child care at all but education a tad late. I've learned that the people most against sex ed are the ones who REFUSE to properly educate their kids leaving said kids to figure it out on their own...then getting enraged at those kids for consequences the parents themselves created. That's just insane.

A joyous THANK YOU to Cindy Gallop's team for the long hard work bringing this Academy into being. I've just become a member. I want everyone to be educated about responsible sex from a safe and accessible website.

I love the Exploring As: Role/Age filter at the top making the search easy. Krista White's: Consent is Mandatory and Benjamin Dunk's: Intimacy Guide for Young Men About Sex is EXACTLY the info that needs to get out there.

I look forward to seeing this Academy becoming The Source for global sex ed.

My situation is such that I am not really able to contribute anything myself, but I am pleased that this has finally become available (!!a quarter of the way through the 21st century!!).