You’re not ready for sex if you only want to do it because you think it’s what people of your age do, so you should do it too.
Love Matters is produced by Radio Netherlands Worldwide and influenced by a Dutch view of sexuality and sexual health.
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First times: "we ended up kissing"
“I had always been attracted to women, but I never thought I was a lesbian,” says Avni.
At school she had always thought being a lesbian meant “having short hair, wearing oversized boyish clothes, being unusually enthusiastic about the English Premier League and generally being a social outcast”. Part four in our first times series.
ContraceptivesPutting sexy into contraception
Making birth control sexy works better than using scare tactics, says family planning organisation DKT International.
DKT uses social marketing to provide cheap contraceptives and safe abortions, and help prevent HIV/AIDS. Doesn't this encourage young people to have more sex? “Condoms don’t promote sex,” says DKT’s Chris Purdy. “It’s as if umbrellas promote rain.”
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