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Let’s talk about sex, seriously

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The role of teachers in giving sex education continues to be controversial. Do we know the way to approach this issue? Source: Image by FX. Eko Budi Kristanto / Creative Commons

Times keep changing. Today young people have easy access to sexually explicit material. But their education about sex may not have kept up with social and technological change.


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Times keep changing. Today young people have easy access to sexually explicit material. But their education about sex may not have kept up with social and technological change.


Margaretha is a lecturer in the Psychology Faculty at Airlangga University and a PhD candidate at Melbourne University.  She explains why speaking honestly about sex is difficult and why this has dramatic implications for problems like sexual violence.

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