What will shape women’s rights over the next 15 years?
Carla Kweifio-Okai: What should be included in the sustainable development goals to promote women’s equality and empowerment, and will they work?
Spending $25 a woman annually on healthcare could save millions of lives
Investing in reproductive healthcare would bring huge benefits for women and children and reduce long-term costs, says report by Guttmacher Institute and UN
Can you imagine a world without condoms for safe sex? Scientists can
Dr Bethany Young Holt: Right now, if women want to protect themselves from HIV and pregnancies, condoms are the only option. But technology is about to change all that
‘Victorian’ sexual exploitation of poor girls isn’t history
Tom Seymour: 19th-century prostitutes’ champion, Josephine Butler, has lessons for how society needs to change its attitude to today’s abused young woman, a new biography says
I was a late developer
As his friends went through puberty, Neil Brennan remained stubbornly boyish and undeveloped. By 18, he was desperately anxious … would he ever catch up with his peers?
The claims against Jian Ghomeshi show we still need to talk about sexual consent
Kitty Stryker: It’s too easy for abusive people to leverage the idea that consent and communication isn’t ‘sexy’ against their victims
‘Today we’re talking masturbation’: sitting in on a sex education class
As bill to make sex education a statutory requirement gets its second reading in the Commons, Sally Weale attends a lesson
Just how ‘gay’ is anal play, really?
Zach Stafford: The kind of sex that gay men are having isn’t exclusive to the LGBT community. It’s just that few straight people admit having it
‘It’s an exciting time to be involved in trans issues’
Aedan Wolton, a caseworker at the UK’s only transgender-led sexual health and wellbeing clinic, describes a typical working day
Men deserve everything women get: waiting periods, purity control and science-free sex education
Jessica Valenti: It’s time to end the battle of the sexes and protect men with the same zeal as we do women
The lab-grown penis: approaching a medical milestone
After decades of research, scientists are bioengineering penises in the lab, writes Dara Mohammadi
Margaret Foley obituary
Other lives: Gynaecologist who led the way in improving women's sexual health
Sex therapy: Stop trying to be ‘normal’
Three experts talk to Anna Moore about how sexual expectations are changing and the issues that they are asked to address
Sex Uncovered: austerity-hit Britons have sex less than once a week, poll finds
Observer sex survey finds sharp fall in reported sexual activity since last study in 2008
Denmark and Netherlands launch fund for sexual health groups
Cash aims to boost grassroots reproductive rights groups that are sometimes marginalised for their contentious agendas