Age at sexual debut has been one of the variables most frequently examined by sexual health researchers. This is understandable, given that sexual debut is a critical life event, with implications for future sexual health and well-being. As typically defined, sexual debut refers to first vaginal...

In the 1990s, nonheterosexual women, particularly teenagers, didn’t show up much in the family planning literature. Or not explicitly, at any rate. But in 1999, Family Planning Perspectives, as the journal was then known, ran an article in which Elizabeth Saewyc and colleagues studied...

The history of sex education in U.S. schools is marked by countless twists and turns, and no small amount of controversy. Undoubtedly one of the biggest changes came in the early 1980s, when the federal government started pouring money into programs that focused on abstinence, rather than taking...