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We urgently need relationship and sex education that’s relevant to teenagers and focuses on reducing risks – not making them scared to seek help.
Adolescent girls carry the blame for early pregnancy, yet the boys and men who got them pregnant remain invisible.
Students are more likely to flourish when they experience both material security and psychosocial support.
Erectile dysfunction treatment has long relied on self-reporting and a narrow set of treatment options. Advances support an increasingly personalized, data-driven and patient-centred care model.
A MenB vaccine may also help curb drug-resistant gonorrhoea, linking two growing health threats and raising new questions about how vaccines are used.
Research showed that older women used safer methods of abortion. Fully safe methods did not dominate in any region of Ghana.
Without systematic documentation, traditional plants’ uses could be lost or excluded from mainstream medical discourse.
Young people with life-shortening conditions want full lives, including relationships, but support around sex and intimacy is still lacking.
Adolescent girls living in low-income urban informal settlements face challenges that elevate their susceptibility to early childbearing.
Ancient writers, especially physicians, had plenty to say about genitals and their care.
‘The sex talk’ is not one single conversation. Here’s how to get started even if this seems super awkward.
The average length and girth of a penis is shorter than many of us think.
Women with disabilities can’t always make informed reproductive choices, and this can make them even more vulnerable.
Targeting sperm production without lowering testosterone will mean fewer side-effects for men.
Semen, sperm, pre-cum, seminal fluid. These terms are sometimes used interchangeably – here’s the difference.
The funding freeze has hit hard, programmes have stalled, uncertainty has grown and communities are feeling the strain.
Draft rules to restrict ‘age-inappropriate content’ may also affect essential information about sex and sexual health.
A sex therapist and researcher on the mental and physical benefits of self-love.
According to recent estimates from the World Health Organization, more than one in five people aged 15–49 live with genital herpes.
Top contributors
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Professor of Adolescent Health, Co-Head of the General Practice Clinical School, University of Sydney
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Women's Health Psychology, Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, Public Health Ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Adjunct Professor, La Trobe University
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Professor of Media and Communication and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor, University of New England
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Senior Research Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Endocrinologist and Andrologist, Cabrini Hospital & Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of medicine, Monash University
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Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Honorary Professor in Sexual Health, UNSW
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Lecturer, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor, City University of New York