Executive summary Girls' and women's health is in transition and, although some aspects of
it have improved substantially in the past few decades, there are still important unmet needs …

This paper presents a systematic review on published research on universal school-based
relationships and sex education for children aged 4–18 years. The review excludes papers …

How well do young people understand their developing sexuality and what this means? This
paper reports on findings from the Our Lives: Culture, Context and Risk project, which …

Forming stable, supportive romantic relationships is an important determinant of well‐being
for adults. Yet, there has been limited research about if and how prior romantic experiences …

This study experimentally tested the influence of secondary school students' gender on
Dutch language and math teachers' grading (n= 358) and examined the role of teachers' …

Background Adolescent pregnancy remains a public health concern, with diverse serious
consequences, including increased health risk for mother and child, lost opportunities for …

Much research into young people's developing sexuality is concerned with risk avoidance
and the reduction of negative outcomes. Little research has been conducted into sexual self …

The complexity of young people's strategic negotiation of sexual agency constitutes a
challenge for professionals working in the area of sexuality education. This paper explores …

Two paradigms have shaped how US policy makers, health professionals, and educators
have approached teenage sexuality over the past several decades. The first is the …

Orgasmic Bodies explores how bodily experiences of orgasm are worked up as
present/absent, complicated/straightforward, too slow/too fast, fake or real, in the doing of …