Human Sexuality News

Labour MP Kate Green gave Michael Gove's sex education policy a drubbing yesterday following a call by England's children's commissioner to urgently develop youngsters' "resilience to pornography." Dr Maggie Atkinson found that many children look at porn, which fuels "risky" behaviour such as having sex at a younger age.

LYTLE, Texas -- Tracy Barth says her 15-year-old daughter sat quietly in her gym class, not knowing what to do as school leaders flashed images of diseased genitalia on the screen before her.

A MUSICAL based on The X Factor has got the green light and will launch in the West End next year.

Blue Is the Warmest Colour just "happens to contain the lengthiest, most intimate and most graphic lesbian sex scenes in mainstream cinema history", according to The Guardian.

You don't say. One day after Farrah Abraham announced an upcoming reality docu-soap series based on her life via Twitter, the Teen Mom star used the social media site yet again to humble brag about her recently released sex tape, Farrah Abraham Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom.

The U.S. teen birth rate fell 25% over five years to a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Both men and women seek surgery to reduce or enlarge their sexual organs - should transsexuals be treated differently? Jo Latham, a doctoral student at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society , at Melbourne's La Trobe University, lays out his argument in a recent issue of the journal Aesthetic Plastic Surgery .

The Children's Commissioner says age restrictions apply at the cinema but society allows access to far more troubling imagery via the internet Children who access pornography are more likely to have sex at a younger age and engage in "risky behaviours", a report by the Office of the Children's Commissioner has warned.

In order to understand the complex relation between sex and productivity, first we need to understand the relation between testosterone and sex.

Students at elite schools spend more on sex toys than those at other schools, leading many to speculate whether sex drive is related to intelligence.

State lawmakers have passed legislation that would mandate schools that teach sex education in Illinois also would have to give students information about birth control.

This week, with the release of the DSM-V, the latest edition of the psychiatric bible that defines and diagnoses mental-health disorders, experts thought we'd finally get some answers about who's just on the extreme end of the horny spectrum and who's got an actual clinical problem.

The bill, which a committee will consider Friday, would require studios to ensure that performers are safe from sexually transmitted diseases by wearing condoms or other protective barriers during filming.

The Pittsfield School Committee is out to revamp the sex education program, which has come under fire for being inadequate, incomplete and largely irrelevant, according to students.

It is not wrong. And there is no passage about premarital sex. The closest it comes is passages on prostitution.

With what seems to have been very little controversy over such a heated topic, the Illinois Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would change the way Illinois public schools teach sex education.

Sex education is causing a bit of a rift in the legislature. A new bill would require schools that teach Sex Ed to include lessons on contraceptive methods, including abstinence, for kids in 6th through 12th grades.

I'll take Beautiful Creatures over The Twilight Saga any day. Sure, it's got the same human-supernatural teen romance at its centre, but the young lovers spend far less time moping, so the proceedings are considerably livelier.

What and how much children should learn in school about sex and contraception varies from person to person.

Teens are bombarded from all sides when it comes to messages on sex. At church, they hear, "Wait until marriage," while the rest of the world loudly asks, "Why wait?" Even though they know deep down what they should do, heart and hormones challenge the head.