Cleo Hopkin-King takes a look at the historical subjugation of women’s sexuality and examines how patriarchal stigmatisation and control still contributes to disparities in sexual pleasure to this day
Sex Educator Sadie Scheuer considers where the idea that sex education leads to promiscuity comes from and thinks about how we can go about debunking this narrative
Georgina Diaz explores Katherine Angel’s Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent, a book which is challenging the paradigm of today’s consent culture
Sarah Bronzite explores Natalie Fiennes’ Behind Closed Doors; an accessible, albeit occasionally frustrating, introduction to putting sexual attitudes and behaviours within a wider context
PSHE (physical, social, health and economic education) is a subject that is often seen as a nuisance by teachers and students alike in secondary schools. H Totten argues for its enduring importance in teaching young people about consent and healthy relationships
How can people be reaching 16 without getting useful and relevant sex education? Abigael Watson thinks things need to change so that teens have an understanding of sex that goes beyond the biological explanation from school and the misleading portrayal from porn
"The thing about sex education at school is that I was left with the impression that if you don't use contraception, you are 99% likely to get knocked up..."
We were recently contacted by Firecracker Films, who are looking for 16- to 24-year-olds to take part in a documentary on sex and relationships. The F-Word is not involved in and does not endorse this project, but we thought some of you might be interested. If so, please read on!