Providing information and resources for parents, youth workers and educators to help kids navigate their sexuality.
Teenage boys as young as 16 are experiencing symptoms of erectile dysfunction due to excessively viewing violent and hardcore pornography, an expert has revealed. Read the article here.
A new sex-education ad being rolled out across NSW aims to teach young people how to properly ask for and recognize consent. Read the article and view the video here.
Younger siblings are less likely than firstborns to hear about the birds and the bees from their parents, a new study suggests. Read the article here.
New research from Brigham Young University family life professor Laura Padilla-Walker suggests that when it comes to your teens, one vague and generic conversation about sex is not enough. Read the article here.
Don’t miss opportunities to talk with your teen about sex and relationships. Data shows that parents have the greatest influence of anyone in teens’ lives on their decisions about sex. Read the article here.
Teens are likely watching much more pornography than we think they are. Worse, it’s shaping, even distorting, how they believe sex should be. Read the article here.
We live in the age of information. We also live in a hyper-sexualized era. Put those two together and you quickly realize there are ideas filtering through our cultural climate that you wouldn’t expect a seven-year-old should know. Read the blog post from Protect Young Minds here.
In the sex education class for adults with intellectual disabilities, the material is not watered down. Read the article here.
The role of sex education is as important as ever, but the debate among American adults about the right approach to sex education—particularly between teaching safe-sex vs. abstinence—has been ongoing. Read the article and research from The Barna Group here.
The article has caused controversy online with social media users calling for a boycott of the publication. Read the article here.
Two thirds of Dutch 9 to 12 year olds are regularly confronted with graphic, sexual images online, according to research by Rutgers knowledge institute and broadcaster NOS.
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Love — or infatuation, at least — is part of school, whether we want it to be or not. It’s often school that gives us our first crush, our first dance-induced cold sweat, and that first bitter taste of heartbreak. So should we talk about it in schools?
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Kara Powell helps those who are nervous about talking to their kids about sex in her blog for Fuller Youth Institute.
Read the blog post here.
Lack of sex ed, fearlessness and not getting tested are to blame. Read the article from Time here.
A number of states recently have dedicated more money to educating women and health care providers about the 99 percent effectiveness of long-acting, reversible forms of contraception, like the intrauterine device, or IUD. Read the article here.
Teens around the world are getting sex education in schools that fail to address their needs and concerns, researchers report.
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According to a new study, distribution in schools can actually increase fertility rates. Can alternative policies be more effective?
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A new study suggests that 53 percent of boys believe the aggressive sex they see in porn is how people actually have sex.
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A new study shows that 53% of teen boys and 39% of teen girls think the sex acts they see in porn are realistic.
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Teen advocates in South Carolina say teens are not well protected from dating violence under the current law, and a new bill would require schools to address dating violence in sex ed class and would make dating violence a felony.
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