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How Good is Sex Education in Schools?
A new report says that young people find their sex and relationship education lacking. So what can be done to improve it? A school nurse giving sex education advice to year 10 students at a school in...
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Sex education: we should teach young people about more than the mechanics
Sex education: too much emphasis on the mechanics, says Doortje Braeken, who argues for more teaching about sexuality. Photograph: David Levene (The Guardian) Sex education polarises opinion, sets...
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Condoms: Why are we still embarrassed about using them?
A new restaurant promoting safe sex and condom use has opened in the UK, but many people are still too embarrassed to even buy them – why? As sex education goes, it’s pretty unconventional. Cabbages...
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Why sex education matters
Children as young as four ask where babies come from. Photograph: Veer/Getty Images A year-long campaign is calling for good quality lessons that explain more than just the biology of puberty and...
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Sex Education & Government / Internet Censorship
The #CensoredUK hashtag, spearheaded by the Sex and Censorship group, has been drawing attention to some of the unexpected sites that end up being blocked when internet providers buckle to government...
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Dear Michael Gove, you could have saved me from HIV
A HIV-positive teenager has written an open letter to Michael Gove asking him to make lessons about the virus a compulsory part of sexual education in schools, amid fears of growing ignorance about it...
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Call for better education on HIV after survey
There’s a call for teenagers to be given clearer education about HIV. A third of 12 to 17-year-olds wrongly think they can’t catch HIV through unprotected sex. A panel of nearly 1,000 were surveyed...
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Sex education comes from porn for more than half of university students
A survey of more than 2500 students found that two thirds received no information about consent in their sex and relationship (SRE) lessons at school. The NUS is calling for adequate SRE lessons to be...
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What Leicestershire parents think about compulsory sex education lessons in...
Sex education: too much emphasis on the mechanics, says Doortje Braeken, who argues for more teaching about sexuality. Photograph: David Levene (The Guardian) Parents in Leicestershire have given the...
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Sex education: how it is taught here and abroad
MPs want sex education to be made compulsory in English state schools. What happens now – and how does this compare with other countries? The Commons education select committee wants personal, social,...
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How schools are getting it wrong on HIV
Leo found out he was HIV positive when he was 12. A few months later, in a personal, social and health education lesson, the teacher was discussing HIV and Aids: “And some of the pupils were joking...
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What It’s Like Living As a HIV-Positive Teen
When she was an infant, Ashley Rose Murphy was extremely sick. Murphy was born with HIV, which she contracted from her late birth mother. After spending over three months in a coma, she was placed...
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