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Sex Tech, a conference held by The Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc., brings together leaders in the fields of STD/HIV prevention, education, unplanned pregnancy prevention, government and technology to explore ways new media can improve young people's access to sexual health information. Follow teensource on twitter & follow the sex::tech conversation using the #sextech hashtag.

If you'd like to learn more about sex, birth control, and other issues that matter to young adults, check out Maria Talks , website created by an 18-year-old girl! On the website, you can meet her friends and hear about some of their issues too. You can also become friends and interact with Maria and her friends on Myspace.

Lots of teens are using the Internet to look for health info; however, not all the info out there is accurate. Here are a couple of tips to make sure the info you are getting is correct:

1. Look for sites that end in .gov, .edu, or .org
2. Be careful of bogus links from posts

According to the Oakland Tribune, 1 in 5 teens are sexting . Furthermore the average age of the teens is 14. Sometimes girls will send a sexy picture of themselves to a boyfriend but when the relationship ends, the boyfriend will turn around and send out the pictures to other people, resulting in humiliation for the girl.

"The Great American Condom Campaign is a youth-led grassroots movement to reduce unintended pregnancies and the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections by normalizing condom use on college and university campuses. Students from across the country apply to become SafeSites, or individual condom distribution points. Students at college and university campuses with limited or no condom access are prioritized during the application process. Once selected, SafeSites receive a box of 500 Trojan condoms to distribute to their peers.