BACKGROUND A growing prevalence of unexpected pregnancies and younger age of sexual debut is observed among Chinese young people, while they lack formal sexuality education from schools and parents. It is necessary to measure their knowledge level of sexual and reproductive health, and how such knowledge associates with their sexual behaviors and reproductive health outcomes, which would shed l...

BACKGROUND The need to educate adolescents about healthy sexual behavior motivated the development of an education program on sexuality. AIM To describe the knowledge of students about sexuality and the implementation of a sexual education project. MATERIAL AND METHODS Sixty students aged 14 years (34 females), attending the third year of secondary education participated in dynamic workshop...

CONTEXT Curriculum-based sexuality and HIV education is a mainstay of interventions to prevent STIs, HIV and unintended pregnancy among young people. Evidence links traditional gender norms, unequal power in sexual relationships and intimate partner violence with negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes. However, little attention has been paid to analyzing whether addressing gender and ...

The international community is currently debating whether international law requires States to educate adolescents about their sexuality. Various nongovernmental organizations, United Nations Special Rapporteurs, and treaty-monitoring bodies assert a right to comprehensive sex education, a controversial approach to sex education that arguably encourages adolescents to experiment with their sexu...

Background: The inability to have vaginal intercourse despite several attempts, defined as unconsummated marriage (UCM). It is a problematic worldwide sexual disorder. Lack of sexual knowledge has been shown affected UCM couples, so, we designed a qualitative narrative study to explain how a sample of Iranian unconsummated couples experienced sexuality when they were children and to explore wha...

More than a decade ago—in 2006 in the pages of this journal—Dr. Boyung Lee prophetically wrote that “unless one addresses subject sexuality, discussion and movement peace justice ...

Sexuality is an integral component of every individual’s identity. The literature offers limited information about the sexuality and sexual identity of women with spinal cord injury (SCI), beyond the physiological and neurological aspects. The qualitative study described in this paper aimed to explore the experiences and perceptions of a small sample of adult women with SCI regarding their sexu...

CONTEXT College students are more likely than other student populations to be sexually active. To improve sex education in China among this group, educators must know college students' needs and their preferences for receiving information on sexuality. METHODS In 2002, students at a large Chinese university completed surveys about their history of school-based sex education and their other so...

Despite the importance of media in the lives of girls, sexuality researchers have largely overlooked how Black American adolescent girls engage with media to construct sexual self-definitions and explore their emerging sexuality. This study investigated sexual scripts, self-definition, and hip hop culture in internet home pages constructed by Black girls aged 14-17 years residing in southern st...