sex education

Sex education has always been a sensitive subject. How much should you teach children about sex? And how early should you start to teach them? These are very difficult questions that are faced by all parents who are bringing up their…

Where would we be without sex? Well, the short answer is we wouldn’t be here at all, but aside from providing us with the beginning of our existence, sex is extremely beneficial to your wellbeing if only because it’s the focus of some weird…

No parent likes to think about what their teenager is watching on the internet, in part because you worry that this will have an impact on your teen’s sexual health and wellbeing. Many parents as concerned that viewing sexually explicit…

The Sex Education Forum have spent the last year campaigning for Education Secretary Michael Gove to keep the term “sexual health” in the curriculum, but were sadly “disappointed” in their attempts. In the new programme of study for…

It is thought that sex education in schools could be at risk of being "watered down" if the proposed changes to England's science curriculum go ahead. According to a team of experts, sex education should be "unambiguously"…

Go to Source Sex education should be imparted to children as young as 10 in order to curb unwanted early pregnancies, unsafe abortions, maternal deaths and STDs across the world, a new study suggests. According to…

Go to Source UK-based sexologist and president of World Association for Sexual Health, Dr Kevan Wylie, is currently in Navi Mumbai to attend the National Conference on Sexology from August 22 to 24. The Council of Sex Education and…

Many wellness experts believe that modern teen sexual health problems require a modern solution; social networking. The theory goes, to talk to teenagers about their wellbeing, you have to speak their language – and these days that language…

Scottish head teachers have been warned not to let a hard-line US Christian sex campaigner speak in their schools, after a pupil required therapy after one of her talks. Pamela Stenzel spoke to nearly 200 pupils form various schools at a…

More than a third of schools in England are failing to provide pupils with age-appropriate education in sexual health and wellness. This is according to an Ofsted report based on inspections of 24 primary, 24 secondary and two special…

The first time you name the parts of the body to your toddler, his or her sex education has begun. What you teach your children can have a big impact on their future sexual wellness, as well as other aspects of their wellbeing, and so…

In the last three years, more than 15,000 under-16s were diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases including gonorrhoea, chlamydia and genital herpes. This is according to an investigation by the Daily Mirror, which found that roughly…

Sex education evolved in Quebec much as it did in the rest of North America, though it was slower to take its place in the curriculum here because of the strength of the Catholic Church. In 1969 the government of Canada…

The recently launched app called Teen in NYC Protection+, provides information on health services for New York teens. This is the work of the Bloomberg administration, who, with the funding of the New York City Department of Health and…

Sexual health education still remains a vital component of cutting teenage pregnancies. This is according to medical wellness experts from NHS Fife, who have released a statement extolling the benefits that sex education provide to the…

In the UK, sexual health education is gradually taught in schools at all ages, while most US public schools don’t start sex education until the fifth grade (in which children are aged 10-11). However, in the next two years, as part of an…

We all know about the horrors of STIs and how dangerous unprotected sex can be. It turns out that while this information might seem like relatively common knowledge today, not everyone's as well-informed. There's an entire generation of…

Respectful attitudes to sex would become a core part of sex education in schools under an overhaul recommended to the Government. The revamp would aim to broaden the subject beyond a narrow focus on the physical mechanics of…