Young people who can talk openly about sex with their parents tend to delay having sex and are more likely to use contraception when they do. Talking to children about sex Talking about sex to your child doesn’t mean you are encouraging them to have sex. The best way to start talking about sex is to: start when your child is young, as waiting before your child reaches puberty can make it awk...

Everyone has an opinion about sex work. Straight off - is it work? Why not say “prostitution”? A few days ago I wrote about how preserving an ideology should be secondary to the safety of sex workers; comments were overtaken swiftly by a discussion on whether or not sex work could be properly defined as

The latest Journal of Liberal History (published by the Liberal Democrat History Group) is a special issue on liberalism and women, including an interview with Shirley Williams. One question looked at what changes in society she thought were still needed when it comes to issues of gender, and this part of her answer caught my

Convictions for historic gay sex offences will be erased as part of the Freedom Bill, the Sunday Telegraph reports: Lynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat equalities minister, will announce firm proposals for new legislation within days, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. The move will benefit thousands of men who were prosecuted for gay sex with someone

The Mail is getting worked up that people attending a black tie dinner at the House of Commons may later, having left those hallowed halls, enjoy some form of sexual activity. The newspaper is upset that Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell has sponsored the black tie event in the Commons, after which attendees will go onto

A comprehensive program of sex education is desperately needed across the British schooling system. The current efforts to amend the embarrassing lack of effective classes in our schools are simply not good enough, and we are allowing young people to be educated not by qualified teachers in a safe teaching environment, but on the internet,

Earlier this week I took part in a QUESTION TIME style programme called FORUM for Press TV hosted by Nick Ferrari on the theme of 'Politics, Media, Sex & Spin'. The other three guests were former Mirror editor David Banks, former Tory MP Piers Merchant and the Mirror's chief reporter Stephen Moyes. The discussion ranged across how the media covers politics, scandal and sex. ...

In all the recent budgety-footbally excitement we somehow seem to have missed the American Political-Sex-Scandal Story of the Week: Is Al Gore in fact a "crazed sex poodle"? On Wednesday, the National Enquirer printed a story dating from last year,...

Commenting on Harriet Harman’s drive to make buying sex illegal, Liberal Democrat Equalities Spokesperson, Lynne Featherstone said: "Before introducing this new law, the Government has to prove that outlawing paying for sex will reduce trafficking. I remain to be convinced. The statute book is already littered with offences relating to prostitution, some of which are rarely used. "We should ...

Homosexual couples should be allowed to get married, the Liberal Democrats said today.