Why I’m never going to have another smear test
For women with mental health problems, learning disabilities or a history of sexual abuse, smear tests can be especially traumatic, writes Clare Allan. Why doesn't the medical profession know this?
Sex and taxes
Melissa Ditmore: Nevada's innovative $5-a-time sex tax would have given something back to the state's prostitutes
‘Everyone has problems, don’t they?’
Young people share their very different accounts of the issues they face growing up, from gun crime to graduation, teenage pregnancy and homelessness
Adultish giggling
Rebecca Front: Bring on sex education at primary school, if it leads to parents who can say penis with a straight face
Catholic archbishop Vincent Nichols attacks plans for TV ads for condoms
Most Rev Vincent Nichols says Catholics should publicly oppose advert proposals
‘Family planning is so easy, yet so little is invested in it’
Dana Hovig of Marie Stopes talks to Emine Saner about the struggle to de-stigmatise abortion
Porn: the new sex education
A Channel 4 programme reveals that teenagers feel pressure and suffer sexual hang-ups due to the pervasive influence of pornography
Gay men warned over HIV risk
Second highest annual infection figure prompts calls for more testing and better education of young gay men
The carrot and carrot approach to sex
Mary Kenny: Ads for condoms and abortion won't stop unwanted pregnancy. The financial crisis teaches us that risk has consequences
Anti-abortion group attacks plan to allow pregnancy advice ads
Permission for pregancy advice services to advertise on TV will lead to abortion services running ads, claims pro-life lobby. By Mark Sweney
Pre-watershed condom ads are counsel of despair
Michael White: There are better ways of reducing Britain's shocking teenage pregnancy rate than contraceptive messages at teatime
Condom ads could be screened before 9pm watershed
Watchdogs call for radical shakeup of advertising rules to stem rise in teenage pregnancies. By Rebecca Smithers
‘We will teach you to make love again’
Janine di Giovanni on the French approach to getting back your sex life - and figure - after childbirth
Is the health system failing children?
Teenager, Katrina Mather, and mother, Brenda Rex, talk about the failings within the health service
Children being failed by health system, says head of watchdog
From knife crime to hospital care, young people still put at risk, according to outgoing head of Healthcare Commission