At school, novelist Emily Maguire wanted to be told her desires were normal. But sex education let her down - and today's adolescents still get a raw deal.
The government is attempting to shock young people into giving up smoking through a major advertising campaign that tells them smoking can ruin their sex lives. By Ben Bold.
Three trainee midwives have won a landmark sex discrimination case establishing rights to maternity pay for thousands of women studying to join the NHS professions.
Leader: Beverley Hughes, the new children and families minister, was right this week in a Guardian interview to urge parents to become more involved in sex education with their children to reduce unwanted teenage pregnancies.