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They are the founder and director of Scarleteen (www.scarleteen.com), the first inclusive and comprehensive sex, sexuality, and relationships education online clearinghouse for young people, founded in 1998. Heather is also the author of \u003ci\u003eS.E.X: The All-You-Need-To-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties\u003c\/i\u003e, now in its second edition, \u003ci\u003eWait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies and Growing Up\u003c\/i\u003e with Isabella Rotman, and was a contributing editor for the last edition of \u003ci\u003eOur Bodies, Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e. 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