sexual health education
Intimacy safety curriculum
Sexual health education is instruction about human sexuality, reproduction, and related health topics.
It typically covers anatomy, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, consent, and healthy relationships.
The term often appears in debates over school curricula: The district adopted a comprehensive sexual health education program.
Also called sex education or sex ed.
- condom useBarrier contraception during sex
- consentVoluntary agreement given
- body autonomyControl over one's physicality
- safe sexPrecautionary intimate practices
- boundariesLines marking separation
healthy relationships · anatomy · intimacy · contraception · relationships · abuse prevention · trusted adult · birds and bees · age appropriate · parental consent · sex positivity · gender identity · STIs · banana · fertility · puberty · empathy · condoms
- contraceptionbirth control, condom, condoms, IUD, diaphragm
- syphilissyphilis, Treponema pallidum, tertiary syphilis, congenital syphilis, chancre
sexual health educationpurity culture
Ideology emphasizing virginity before marriage
sexual health educationsexual taboo
sexual health educationsexual taboo
purity culture · slut-shaming · repression · body shaming · Victorian morality