Are young people being given the right information on contraception?
Getting good-quality, objective advice is often difficult and can lead to risky decisions, according to health professionals
Risky sexual behaviour threatens to derail Aids progress, UN report says
UNAids says HIV drugs are saving lives, but prospects of changing behaviour to stop spread of infection are not promising
Making porn actors wear condoms is not the best way to protect us
Stoya: Measure B, a law requiring the use of condoms in adult movies in LA County, fixes a problem that doesn't exist. Our sex is safe
Is China failing its young people on sexual health?
Awareness among China's 161 million 15-24-year-olds is poor, while sex education and services are said to be inadequate. Frederika Whitehead reports
LA County’s Measure B is a major win for safe sex in adult entertainment
Gail Dines: The failure to block the pro-condom ballot, for all their political leverage and wealthy donors, is a knock for Big Porn's exploiters
Sex: ‘Whatever you’re doing, double it’
Jon Henley catches up with two couples who tried regimes of consecutive sex, for 101 and 365 days respectively. Five years on, are they still, um, at it?
‘Reader, I shagged him …’
Should you turn to fiction or the sex manuals for advice and ideas? John Crace does the research so you don't need to
Dr Ruth Westheimer: My family values
The sex therapist talks about her family. Interview by Nick McGrath
In Africa, we must do the most good with each pound spent on Aids-HIV
Bjørn Lomborg: With donor money to fight HIV and Aids falling, spending in sub-Saharan Africa must be targeted to get the best results
Gareth Henry: ‘I saw my friends killed … There’s no safe place in this country’
Ex-leader of Jamaican gay and lesbian group J-Flag explains why police death threats forced him to seek asylum in Canada
Northern Ireland: Larkin with the law
Editorial: Attorney general John Larkin cannot use the law to force the Marie Stopes sexual health clinic to close, so he should stop intervening in the matter
My mum is a sex therapist
As a boy in the 1970s, Tom Cutler liked to keep some things to himself. The question he really dreaded was this: 'What does your mother do for a living?'
What does the US presidential election mean for young people’s sexual health?
Madeleine French analyses Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's policies on issues such as abortion and contraception
Wendy Greengross obituary
Pioneering counsellor, agony aunt for the Sun and writer on sex education
Day of the Girl: why we must debate the age of consent
Setting a globally agreed legal age of marriage only deals with half the issue, argues Doortje Braeken