Activists urge renewed women’s rights focus as UN meets in New York

Activists still demanding progress 20 years after Cairo deal, as UN meeting also aims to tackle newer problems of climate change and migration

Give schoolboys HPV vaccine, says charity

Routine immunisation of schoolboys would curb spread of certain types of cancer, argues Royal Society for Public Health

Inclusive sex education is vital – and British schools aren’t delivering it

Peter Tatchell: Why isn’t there a mandatory requirement to teach children about sexual health and diversity, including LGBT, in the same way as other curriculum subjects?

Sexual health isn’t just about health – it’s about sex too

Pauline Oosterhoff: Achieving the non-controversial medical goals of sexual health requires dealing with the controversial aspects of sexual life

Channel 4 hires former Miss Belgium to shake up sex education in schools

Goedele Liekens, who is also a therapist, will star in show campaigning to change the way subject is taught to UK children

Let’s talk about sex for the over 60s

Sexually transmitted infections are on the rise among the older generation, writes Matthew Jenkin

Is the era of the virgin over?

Jessica Valenti: New research proves that a generation of women knows there’s nothing wrong with having sex – no matter what the purity-obsessed crusaders say

Decriminalise sex work to help control Aids pandemic, scientists demand

Prostitutes are subject to repression, violence and abuse – even at the hands of law enforcement, research shows

Mood swings? It might be more than PMS…

Alice Roberts: The most commonly prescribed combined contraceptive pill has a potential side-effect that more women – and GPs – should know about

Abstinence sex education doesn’t work. It teaches lies to ill-informed virgins

Jessica Valenti: Teens – whether you like the idea of them having sex or not – deserve information that can keep them healthy. Anything else is criminal

The vasectomy-cancer link made me wince. But ignorance is the real danger

James Mackenzie: Vasectomies increase the risk of prostate cancer, a survey has found. But for men the taboo about discussing sexual health is perhaps a bigger threat

There’s a fitness tracker for vaginas. Quantifying your life has gone too far

Jess Zimmerman: Biofeedback is great ... right up until you use it to get positive feedback from everyone you know

KGoal: introducing the fitness tracker for your vagina

Wearable technology conquers the final frontier with KGoal, a device to help women the world over exercise their pelvic floor muscles better

The Hobby Lobby ruling proves men of the law still can’t get over ‘immoral’ women having sex

Jessica Valenti: In between the lines of the supreme court's decision on contraception coverage is an obsession with female purity

We must demand more of celebrities, not confer advantages on them like Jimmy Savile had

Deborah Orr: It's already established that those whose professional authority puts them at an advantage over people – doctors, teachers, bosses – should not use that advantage sexually. It ought to be just the same for celebrities