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Who are you?
Sexpression:UK is a student organisation delivering sex and relationship education (SRE) to young people in the community. It is run by volunteer students at universities across the UK.
We facilitate sessions covering a wide variety of issues surrounding sex and relationships, including bodily changes; sexually transmitted infections (STIs), contraception and safer sex; relationships; sexual orientation and gender identity; sex and the media; and consent and abuse.
Why is your organisation needed?
Young people are entitled to, and want to, receive information about sex and relationships that is reliable and relevant. However, much of the sex education young people receive in schools focuses on the ‘biology’ of sex and is inconsistently delivered by non-specialist teachers who have not had access to good training on how to …
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Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
Editor’s note This article is one in a series of occasional articles on key health organisations worldwide. The Journal would be pleased to hear from other organisations, particularly those based outside the UK, which would like to be similarly profiled.
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