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Two Australians have recently contracted cases of ‘super-gonorrhoea’ only a month after Public Health England announced the world’s “worst ever” case of super-gonorrhoea.2 Which means that the antibiotic crisis has already landed on our shores. What is gonorrhoea? The sexually transmitted bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae can cause unpleasant symptoms and can lead to infertility. It’s also […]

So you visit your local GP for whatever reason, and they’re asking routine questions: How are you? How’s school/work? Are you sleeping well? How is your diet? And then DUN-DUN-DUUUUNNNNNN they ask “are you sexually active?” Some answers that might go through your mind include: “please, I’m not even physically active” “umm… not lately” “I’m […]

As part of our new Youth Workshop Module ‘How to Talk to Youth Workers About Sex/Sexual Health’, the YEP Project has developed this video resource which we hope shows that young people can talk to youth workers about ANYTHING, and that youth workers are pretty cool peeps too 🙂 Enjoy!

We take for granted just how useful, how imperative, our names are in our day to day lives. We nonchalantly scribble them down on forms, blurt them out awkwardly when we introduce ourselves to strangers, and write them clumsily on our personal belongings. When our names are congruent with our identities, we barely even notice […]

Sexting? What’s that? One says that someone is sexting when they use the internet or their mobile phones to send and/or post sexual images, videos, or messages. Heaps of people also refer to sexting as sending ‘nudes’ or ‘sexy selfies’. So, if you are sending a picture of yourself or someone else who is nude, […]

When I was 16, I convinced my mum to let me get on the pill. She wasn’t happy about it, and to this day still isn’t, but she agreed, if for no other reason than to stop my incessant teenage whining. I thought it would be a painless and easy method to prevent pregnancy because […]

(Content Warning: this blog discusses consent and what does not count as consent) February is one of my favourite times of the year – no, it’s not my birthday – it’s actually because there’s a whole week in February is devoted to sexual health! As a sexual health educator/enthusiast, Sexual Health Week is a pretty […]

You Define What It Means to You Everyone has a different idea about what constitutes as ‘losing your virginity’. For some people, it’s the first time they have any sexual contact. For others, they define it as the first time they have penetrative sex. Either way, it’s up to you to define what virginity means […]

I’m sure I’m not the only 20 year old in the world that hasn’t received a lecture about sex from their parents. Even so, I still feel kind of weird that it never happened – I was expecting it to. Waiting for years, thinking surely it’s coming, but nope! I guess I am grateful to […]

It took me until my recent break-up to really feel comfortable identifying as bisexual. I never found that I really jelled with the term ‘straight’, but I was so resistant to calling myself anything else. I’d also only ever been in relationships with men so part of me always thought “ah well…maybe I’ll just never […]