Health
Young women and girls are taking sex-ed into their own hands on YouTube
Sex education in Canadian schools continues to be highly politicized and young people are paying the price.
Mar 3, 2020
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News tagged with sex education
Autism spectrum disorders
New study examines sexuality of people with autism
(HealthDay)—Adults with autism report a broad range of sexuality—being much more likely to identify as asexual, bisexual or homosexual than people without autism, a new study finds.
May 5, 2021
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Health
80 percent of US boys use condoms the first time
A surprising 80 percent of teenage boys say they are using condoms the first time they have sex, a government survey found in a powerful sign that decades of efforts to change young people's sexual behavior are taking hold.
Oct 12, 2011
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HIV & AIDS
Breaking sex education taboos in Africa to tackle AIDS
New research focusing on educating young people about sex and HIV/AIDS in Africa is using innovative techniques – such as ‘photo-voice’ and role-play – to discover what African children know about sex ...
Jun 19, 2012
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Pediatrics
Young people make a link between pornography and their harmful sexual behaviour
Young people who had sexually abused other children said that helping them to manage pornography and improving their sexuality education could have helped prevent their abusive behaviour. The findings represent the rarely-captured ...
Nov 24, 2016
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Health
Sex education: Why school and parents should work together
There is an ongoing debate in society about sex education. Now a study funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation suggests that the best approach is a combination of parents and school. And that using friends and the ...
Aug 27, 2019
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Pediatrics
High rate of sex before age 13 among boys from metropolitan areas
Using information from two national surveys, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Guttmacher Institute have found that in some metropolitan areas, more than a quarter of young, African American men reported having ...
Apr 8, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Sex-segregated schooling ineffective and increases gender stereotyping, experts warn
Sex-segregated schooling is not superior to coeducational schooling and carries the risk of exaggerating sexism and gender stereotyping, according to a new report co-authored by a University of Texas at Austin psychologist.
Oct 5, 2011
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Health
The orgasm gap and what sex-ed did not teach you
There is a clear disparity between men and women when it comes to achieving orgasm; a phenomenon scientists call the orgasm gap.
Mar 6, 2018
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HIV & AIDS
Learning lessons from an HIV cure
For doctors confronting the AIDS epidemic, past ambitions always boiled down to two main goals: prevention, or finding ways to protect people not yet exposed to HIV, through vaccines, safe sex education or other means; and ...
Jun 17, 2011
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