Sex Education

How to Talk Openly With Your Kids About Sex

By Michele Hutchison and Rina Mae Acosta

Teen STDs Are Hitting All-Time Highs

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Sex Ed Is Negative, Sexist and Out of Touch: Study

By Mandy Oaklander

Actress Jessica Biel Launches Sex-Ed Video Series

By Tanya Basu
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Watch John Oliver and Some Friends Make a Sex-Ed Video

The video is both highly educational and highly NSFW.

By Melissa Locker

Teen Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low

Here's what's driving the drop in teen parenting

By Alexandra Sifferlin

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1. Go ahead and start a new career in your fifties. It’s easier than you think.By Donna Rosato in Money2. This is what sex-ed would look like if it took place entirely on social media.By...

By The Aspen Institute

Sex Ed Books Through the Ages

These books show how the way we teach kids the facts of life has evolved since 1897

By TIME Staff

Planned Parenthood Thinks It Found a Way to Stop Middle Schoolers from Having Sex

It's all about sex-ed that moves outside the classroom

By Tessa Berenson Rogers

Director Jason Reitman: 'The Internet Opens Up So Many False Opportunities to Feel Loved'

The director of Men, Women & Children talks technology, sex-ed and why the first search for porn is really about understanding where we come from

By Nolan Feeney / Toronto

'The Talk' No Longer Embarrassing

But there's still a lot more conversations that need to happen, according to new data shared exclusively with TIME

By Alexandra Sifferlin

This Sex-Ed Book Is Way Too Sexy, Parents Complain

Teaches ninth-graders about masturbation, like they've never heard of it before

By Charlotte Alter

5 Things We Must Teach Young Boys About Rape, Right Now

It's time to end the ambiguity on "ambiguous" encounters—we need better sex education for our young men

By Chris Ferguson

How One Small Town Lowered Their Teen Birth Rate

A comprehensive sex education program teaches kids in a small South Carolina town about abstinence, contraception, and effective communication--and where to get free condoms.

By Charlotte Alter

Put the Sex Back in Sex Ed

When public schools refuse to acknowledge gender differences, we betray boys and girls alike

By Camille Paglia
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