AT Home with Christian Jessen - March 2011 - (Page 184)

T The UK still has a worryingly high teenage pregnancy rate, and sexually transmitted infections are also on the rise. Is sex education – or the lack of it – in schools to blame? We look at the facts of life… here’s something wrong with sex education in this country. There must be. The results speak for themselves. The highest number of teenage pregnancies in the whole of Western Europe (45, 873 in 2008). Twenty thousand girls under 18 undergoing an abortion last year. And high numbers of sexually transmitted infections (STIs); recent figures show 15-to-24-year-olds are still the group most affected by STIs in the UK. Dr Gwenda Hughes, head of the Health Protection Agency’s STI section, says: ‘The impact of STI diagnoses is still unacceptably high in this group. Studies suggest those infected may be more likely to have unsafe sex or lack the skills and confidence to negotiate safer sex.’ Perhaps the ‘relationships’ aspect of Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) is seriously lacking. Results from a campaign called Let’s Talk About Sex, set up by 18-year-old Shereece Marcantonio, indicate that 40% of young people believe their sex education was poor. Shereece’s campaign, run in conjunction with Channel 4’s Battlefront, Campaigners on a Mission (www.battlefront.co.uk/sex) aims for a change in the way sex education SEX is taught in schools: this young LESSONS: woman, whose three siblings all IT’S NOT became teenage parents, wants COMPULSORY to establish peer-to-peer sex TO TEACH SEX education in schools, whereby EDUCATION IN young people are trained THE UK up to become educators so they can teach each other about sex. Her mission? To ensure young people can ‘get the facts they need without the cringe’. She wants this vital education An 184 | MARCH 2012 http://www.battlefront.co.uk/sex

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of AT Home with Christian Jessen - March 2011

EDITOR'S LETTER
A WARM WELCOME FROM DR CHRISTIAN
NEWS
SAVE THE DATE
DEFENSIVE EATING
SLEEPING BEAUTY
SPOIL YOURSELF
FAMOUS FIGURES
WIN TOP PRIZES
DR JESSEN, I PRESUME
FEEL-GOOD FACTOR
A BEAUTIFUL MIND
PROTECT YOURSELF
GETTING OVER IT
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON
WHAT LIES BENEATH
SUGAR HIGHS AND LOWS
WHAT'S UP, DOC?
ON THE RUN
SMOKING GUN
FRESHLY GROUND
I CAN'T EAT THAT
OFF THE SCALES
WALKING TALL
IN GOOD HANDS?
GIRLS ONLY
IN THE BLOOD
PERIOD PROPERTIES
FERTILITY HELP
A WEE ISSUE
UNDER YOUR HAT
CONFESSIONS OF AN ALCOHOLIC
DANGER ZONE
BODY BASICS
HEART-STOPPING MOMENTS
BACK TO BASICS
WALKING ON SUNSHINE
THE SKIN YOU LIVE IN
LISTEN UP
EYESORE
IN PLAIN SIGHT
DOWN UNDER
BUMP 'N GRIND
LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX
MAN TALK
DO YOU KNOW YOUR BMI?
I'LL HAVE A 'P' PLEASE
BOYS DON'T CRY
TO THE EXTREME
THREE-DAY SLIM DOWN
TOTALLY ADDICTED TO CAKE
JUST A PINCH
GYM JAMS
THEY'RE DOING WHAT?
GOTTA HAVE IT
EYES WIDE SHUT
PETER PAN PLAN
HOW OLD?
HOW OLD?
FUZZ FREE
FUZZ FREE
CUT HERE
CUT HERE
ON THE MEND
ON THE MEND
KNOW YOUR NIP/TUCKS
KNOW YOUR NIP/TUCKS
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
STAY SAFE ABROAD
STAY SAFE ABROAD
SAY CHEESE!
SAY CHEESE!
IVORY TOWER
IVORY TOWER
MOUTH MAYHEM
MOUTH MAYHEM
COMING SOON
COMING SOON
LIGHTEN UP
LIGHTEN UP
COULD YOU BE A GUINEA PIG?
COULD YOU BE A GUINEA PIG?
HEADS UP
HEADS UP
LAST WORD
LAST WORD
STOCKISTS
STOCKISTS

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