When students land on campus, they often have unanswered questions about their reproductive health. One solution: create a massive open online class to teach them about reproductive health.
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The heavy hand of the law has no place in helping teenagers learn about sex – but teenagers must realise it can still catch up with them.
A documentary followed what happened when adolescents were given classes about pornography.
Religious exemptions to the anti-discrimination act should end to ensure fear mongering and misinformation are not present in our schools.
In South Africa’s segregated pre-apartheid state, even sex education was racialised. Christian missionaries had very different lessons for black and white children.
“What do you do?” It’s a question that always makes my heart sink, which aspect of what I do should I highlight in the answer to this minefield of a question. The answer must be brief because the attention…
Teenagers see and use porn – rather than bury our head in the sand let’s help them to discuss and understand its effects.
Technology to filter porn from children is clearly not enough to protect them.
A Danish professor has called on schools to screen pornography so students are prepared to see it in the real world.
Learning about sex at school is crucial for children, but they need support at home too.
A new report from MPs on the Education Select Committee calling for sex education to be made statutory, has much in it to be welcomed by those who have been campaigning for improvements in the provision…
Proposals to force all schools to teach a compulsory sex education curriculum from primary level up and to restrict the right of parents to opt-out their children are back on the parliamentary agenda…
Britain is not unique when it comes to debating how it should educate children and young people about sex. But the country approaches the subject with a particularly British sense of embarrassment and…
A recent TV programme on “the secret life of students” followed a group of students in their first undergraduate year at Leicester University, including 18-year-old Aiden who was informed on screen that…
Recent reports have suggested that Section 28-style bans on the promotion of homosexuality are on the rise in UK schools, causing concern among teachers’ unions. Based on research by the British Humanist…
In the fields of gender, sexuality, and sexual health research, it’s a no-brainer that sex education should start early, and that sex should be discussed often – both in schools and at home. But instead…
Internet porn usage and risky sexual behaviour among adolescents have been linked in a recent study. Being exposed to internet…
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