Joni Edelman

It's #STDAwareness week here at Ravishly. We're kicking it off with this handy chart!

Good news: they'll probably grow out of it. Bad news: probably not until they are 23.

You know what’s an epidemic? Making people feel second rate and ashamed, criminalizing them for something like having an obese pregnancy.

Here’s something that isn’t rocket science either, Stephen Hawking: Diets don’t work.

It doesn’t get any more difficult to insult ourselves, regardless of how old we are. It would be ideal if it got easier to respect ourselves, but it generally doesn’t do that either. Every year you age, and every year the aging you looks at the you of the years before and thinks, I can’t believe I thought I was fat/ugly/etc.

When I heard about accusations that Lena sexually abused her sister, I was astonished. And my visceral emotional reaction prompted powerful questions.

The Interent is ugly sometimes. And raising kids using it doesn't always make it easier.

Compassion for myself is not a thing I do. It is not a thing I have ever done. It is not a thing I feel comfortable doing. It's time I stop for compassion.

Are the advances worth the trade-offs? You be the judge.

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