Sexual Dictionary and Forum idea

[swich]

==Note: This is not an advertisement, just a topic to hear your opinions.==

The idea
It is important that teens know about sex, so that there are no surprises in store for them, like STDs, unexpected pregnancy or other problems. Many teens may have problems, uncertainties or other questions, which they don't discuss or ask with someone because they don't want to talk directly to their parents. Also, it is important for them to talk about sexuality with peers. For both the problems, there is a forum. Everyone can discuss their problem anonymous with other people. For the questions about sexual terms, there is a dictionary on the main website. Here they can find the meaning of multiple terms by selecting the first letter of the word. Along with the meaning, there will be tips and tricks that have to do with the subject.

Everything mentioned, is meant to be informative. Therefore, it's not porn.

Questions
Would you join/visit this forum/website?
What do you expect from this website?
Do you have any suggestions or questions?

I would appreciate it if you answered all the questions. What I appreciate more, is if you fill in the survey instead. In this case, you don't have to answer the questions above.

Google Forms Survey

Side note
I am aware that the're similar websites like this. But after I did some research, I noticed that this combination didn't exist, and the most sites with a dictionary are not user friendly. Also, the website will contain information not only about sex, but also about relationships, love and related things.

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Got one reply on the survey. Thank you the-person-who-filled-it-in!

Any reason why I have no comments on the topic, and only one comment on the survey? Is it too much work? Am I presenting the idea in the wrong place?

[Mindblower]

Seems like your target group is teens with troubles - Not many teens on getdare (legally).

So my answers would simply be, that I wouldn't join and I therefore wouldn't expect much - and not knowing the site at all limits my suggestions.

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Originally Posted by Mindblower

Seems like your target group is teens with troubles - Not many teens on getdare (legally).

So my answers would simply be, that I wouldn't join and I therefore wouldn't expect much - and not knowing the site at all limits my suggestions.

Not exactly teens with troubles, more like people with problems or questions or something like that. It's not directly targeted at teens, but I expect that most of the users will be teens. But I get your point.

[Greatcornbow]

Problem here. Some years ago age required to join was raised from 13 to 18 (with exception for existing members). So there's very little point.

[Fundareboy]

I think that your idea/intentions are very good.

I do agree though that it seems that your target audience are people who are younger then the ones here.

That being said, I know that there are still very possibly adults who have questions as well. I have seen on multiple occasions people posting here asking questions about various topics, and to the best of my knowledge they have been answered fairly well, so I don't think the creation of a forum specifically for that is necessary at this point, since I believe people have found ways to ask their questions without any problems.

If there were to suddenly be an influx of purely information based questioning, maybe then, but I don't really see that happening.

Again though, the idea and intention is very good!

Just my humble thoughts on the matter.

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Originally Posted by Greatcornbow

Problem here. Some years ago age required to join was raised from 13 to 18 (with exception for existing members). So there's very little point.

I know about the age limit, but as I said, I want to target the websites to everyone, not only teens.

Originally Posted by Fundareboy

I think that your idea/intentions are very good.

I do agree though that it seems that your target audience are people who are younger then the ones here.

That being said, I know that there are still very possibly adults who have questions as well. I have seen on multiple occasions people posting here asking questions about various topics, and to the best of my knowledge they have been answered fairly well, so I don't think the creation of a forum specifically for that is necessary at this point, since I believe people have found ways to ask their questions without any problems.

If there were to suddenly be an influx of purely information based questioning, maybe then, but I don't really see that happening.

Again though, the idea and intention is very good!

Just my humble thoughts on the matter.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

[Mindblower]

Originally Posted by swich

It is important that teens know about sex

This part might be confusing if website is aimed more widely

[Fundareboy]

oh, didn't realize you were making a whole new website, I thought this was just talking about a special forum here.

As far as I know there are already plenty of online resources for everyone relating to most subjects.

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Originally Posted by Fundareboy

As far as I know there are already plenty of online resources for everyone relating to most subjects.

As I said in the Side Note:
I am aware that the're similar websites like this. But after I did some research, I noticed that this combination didn't exist, and the most sites with a dictionary are not user friendly.

Currently I am thinking to bring the idea to life.

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As I had a lot of spare time this week, I decided to execute the idea. First, I needed a website, so I opened notepad++ and photoshop and went coding. This is what I came up with. It still needs a lot of work but I'm pretty happy with the result. Forum design will be similair, but adapted to work with SMF (forumsoftware).


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(Name changed to Websitename to prevent people from buying the domain before I do. And because I don't know if the moderators of GetDare see this as advertising if I put the (non-existing) domain/name online.)

The image with the text on top is an automatic playing slideshow.
Everything except the slideshow image is made by me.

Any suggestions or other comments?

[AppleEden]

Not a bad idea. I couldn't really talk to my parents about sexuality when I was a teen, but sufficient use of google and forums, even Yahoo answers got me all the answers I needed.

Look to what's out there already for sex positive education. Have you seen Laci Green on YouTube? If you haven't look it up, and maybe post a link on your website forum when it's up and running. It would be actually really cool if this could be a forum that contains it's own advice and space to ask/answer questions, but also a collection of links to the best of what's already out there in terms of sex positive education. So just one website that both contains and leads to a wealth of reliable information.

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I didn't post anything for a long time, but I kept on developing the website. I wanted to let you know about the progress I made.

Website and blog
The website is almost functional. I completed the homepage, dictionary (only the system, I didn't add any terms yet), help and advice (sort of contact form) and I began developing the theme for the blog (blog as in information about subjects, detailed explanation of terms, etc.).
The blog just looks the same as the website, but it is wordpress intergrated.

Forum
The forum will be installed and set up later, after I finish the blog.

You can try for a live demo over here. Please note that it is in development, bugs may appear.

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It has been a month ago since I gave an update, but that's because of some private stuff that wouldn't allow me to work on this project (and some other projects, but that's not relevant). Meanwhile, I was thinking about a name I could use. The names I came up with where already occupied.

So my question is, does anybody have a good suggestion for a name? It can be a fun wordplay, abbreviations of certain things, etc. as long as it has something to do with the site. I don't really have anything to give you if you come up with something amazing, except some rank or something on the forum of the (upcomming) website.

I am not asking you this because I am lazy or something, but more because I am not that great in coming up with names, or all the good names were are already taken.

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Forum sneak-peak.

The current board-index is:
- Health, lifestyle and misc
-- Health and lifestyle
-- Sex toys and tools

- Pregnancy and birth control
-- Birth control, STDs and pregnancy

- Relationships and love
-- Love, flirting and dating
-- Relationships and romance

- Sex
-- Non-penetrative sex
-- Penetrative sex

- The Community
-- Announcements
-- Questions & Feedback

Anyone mind giving their opinion about the board-index?