Kelly Salasin

Category: Sex

  • Kissing Leads to “YES!”

    by Kelly Salasin “With the temptations so great for the young these days, I hope that your husband will not find you second hand…” These were the words received in a letter from my great-grandmother during my freshman year at college! Reading them again, twenty years later, I still find myself gasping in surprise. How…

  • ~a first love & abortion story~

    (Author’s note: This was one of my most challenging pieces to write– inspired by a friend whose teen was making decisions about sex.  A year later, I mustered the courage to share it with my own teen who to my surprise said, “Mom you have to put this out there” –and so I did, on…