Let’s talk about sex, seriously

Empty desks in a classroom

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.


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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