From The Metro: People who use prostitutes will soon face a hefty fine and a criminal record as part of a new crackdown on the sex trade. They will be breaking the law if they pay for sex with a woman being 'controlled for another person's gain' under the changed rules. It is currently legal to pay for sex as legislation concentrates on brothel-keeping, soliciting for sex, and kerb ...

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...

These are three letters (two from yesterday's Guardian and one from the same paper on May 22nd) addressing the government's continuing attacks on sex workers. The government-funded Poppy Project has previously earned condemnation for its falsified data alleging that 75% of all UK sex workers are trafficked, and its government-sponsored conclusion that the "Swedish model", i.e. criminaliz...

THE Scottish Government has begun gathering views on whether same-sex marriage should be made legal.

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,...

KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images Is this what we really need right now? The world economy fell off the fence, and just as finance ministers, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) start trying to put it back together again... a sex scandal threatens to debilitate the managing director of the IMF. Late last week, the Wall Street Journal began looking into an affair that has rocked t...

SCOTLAND should take a lead in Europe in allowing same-sex couples to marry, MSPs heard yesterday.

Chris Keates, head of the NASUWT teachers’ Union, is to say that teachers having sex with Sixth Form pupils shouldn’t be prosecuted. I am not sure if I agree. We are discussing pupils of legal age, so the legal problems arise from the relationship as teacher and pupil, not age of consent issues. Clearly there is

Paedophile Gary Glitter has abandoned his legal battle against being forced to sign the sex offenders register, court staff said.

Children should be taught about sex ‘in a moral way’, according to Coronation Street's 17-year-old Sacha Parkinson, as a Christian charity launches three short videos which graphically communicate the impact of sex on others. The above video highlights some of the personal, financial and emotional costs of sex where there is no long-term commitment to the other partner. In this vi...