OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sex Education-Sexuality Society and Learning is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding Chinese parents’ experiences supporting romantic relationship development among adolescents with intellectual disabilities	28
Parents’ interest in receiving sexuality education to inform a parent-focused intervention in Medellín, Colombia	28
‘I’m single, but I still need relationship education’: the sexuality and relationship education needs of single university students in Taiwan	19
“They waited for me to cross into puberty, which was too late … .”: parent–adolescent communication on risky sexual behaviour in south-central Uganda	19
Does Yes Mean Yes? Differences in US college students’ understanding of sexual consent	19
Dominant ideologies in sexual health education discourse in Saudi Arabia: a critical discourse analysis of school curricula	18
Rewriting sex education: emerging adults’ perceptions of sexual content in popular entertainment media and its relevance to sexuality education	18
How Do Mothers Prepare for Sexual Health Discussions with their Young Adolescents?	17
Teachers’ perceptions and experiences of delivering LGBTQ+ inclusive Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in England	16
'Where do I come from?' Interrogating imagined childbirth within a sexuality education museum exhibit	15
Fertility knowledge in a cohort of Australia’s adolescents: a cross-sectional study of reproductive and sexual health education	15
Declining nudes: Canadian teachers’ responses to including sexting in the sexual health and human development curriculum	14
What do 3–6-year-old children in Finland know about sexuality? A child interview study in early education	14
Drivers of adolescent pregnancy in rural Zambia: a qualitative study in Kalabo District, Western Province	14
‘When parents see the value, they engage’: overcoming resistance to early childhood sexuality education through flipped classroom teaching and the use of animated videos in Indonesia	14
Orienting teachers towards the pedagogical ideal of talking - the production of pedagogic objects in professional development	12
Sexual prejudice as an institutional barrier to the social justice agenda in early childhood settings	12
Preparing to teach relationships and sexuality education: student teachers’ perceived knowledge and attitudes	12
Parental attitudes to school- and home-based relationships, sex and health education: evidence from a cross-sectional study in England and Wales	12
Social work students in school: critical reflections on interventions with LGBTQ+ young people within secondary schools	12
Effects of fertility education on people of reproductive age: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Queer family intimacies: sex and love betweenprimosin Mexico	11
The implementation of compulsory relationships and sex education in English secondary schools: qualitative research in the 2022–23 school year	11
‘Teach as an outsider’: closeted gay academics’ strategies for addressing queer issues in China	11
Drawing the charmed circle in designing sexual and reproductive health and rights education: reflections on twenty years’ practice	11

An ethnographic study of school bullying, LGBTQI+ subjectivities and the institutional context of schooling in Sweden	11
“Something that is so overlooked”: joyfully exploring queer bodies and sexualities in sexuality education with teachers in New Brunswick, Canada	10
Experiences of school-based sexuality education among young adult women who have sex with women in German-speaking Switzerland	10
Beyond the birds and the bees: teacher knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed for pleasure-based and LGBTQI+ inclusive sexuality education in the Netherlands	10
Australian teacher attitudes, beliefs and comfort towards sexuality and gender diverse students	10
A mapping and discourse analysis of power inequalities and freedom to consent in UK Relationships and Sex Education resources	10
Three-to-six-year-olds’ sexuality-related knowledge in Finland: impact of early education professionals’ training	10
A qualitative exploration of nursing and social work university students’ experiences of sexual and reproductive health and rights education in Australia and Hong Kong	9
’I would just like to be straight.’ Boys and young men’s concerns about being gay in the questions sent to a Finnish sexual counselling service	9
From rage to love: travesti-centred education in Argentina	9
“I wouldn’t want you talking to my kids!”: the politics of age when conducting research about porn with young people	9
Young adult perspectives on sexuality education in Australia: implications for sexual violence primary prevention	8
School health teachers’ gender-sensitive sexual health education experiences in South Korea	8
Debating Sexual Consent in the Teen Series The Hockey Girls : Reactions of Instagram Audiences	8
United States of hate: mapping backlash Bills against LGBTIQ+ youth	8
Sexual health education knowledge required by health education teachers in Finland	8
Mother-daughter relationships as a health asset in Indonesia’s pilot HPV vaccination programme: a cross-sectional study	7
Associations between sexual orientation, sex education curriculum, and exposure to affirming/disaffirming LGB content in two US-based cohorts of adolescents	7
Parental engagement in sex health education for young children: perspectives from Malaysia	7
Sexuality and gender diversity in children and young people: opportunities, limits and challenges in training for professionals via a MOOC course	7
Perceived usefulness of sex and relationship education sources among sexual minority men	7
Silence and noise in sexuality education: institutional omission and digital saturation in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus	7
Crip-queer intimacy, alliance and activism: towards holistic sexuality education in Taiwan	7
The ongoing pleasure paradox: how practitioners are compelled to silence, sanitise and securitise pleasure in English RSE	7
Support for school-based relationships and sexual health education: a national survey of Australian parents	6
Comprehensive school-based sexuality education: outcome evaluation results from Hong Kong	6
Beyond rationality: the role of educator self-disclosure in sexual violence prevention education	6
Unavoidable, unwanted and uncomfortable: teenagers’ unintentional encounters with online pornography and their desire for porn education	6
Affective-sexual education in teacher training: the long road ahead in Spain	6
Content, quality, gaps and needs in sexuality education in Canada: a national survey of sexuality and gender minority youth	6
Becoming ‘good men’: Teaching consent and masculinity in a single-sex boys’ school	6
The vagina problem: a step too far in parent–child sex communication with young children	6
Sexuality education in Italy 2016-2020: a national survey investigating coverage, content and evaluation of school-based educational activities	6
The effectiveness of comprehensive sexuality education in weakening explicit and implicit gender biases among university students in China	6
Relationships and sexuality education for primary school students: results of a pre-post intervention study	6
Erasure and agency in sexuality and relationships education and knowledge among trans young people in Australia	6
The “memeification” of sexual health communication on Instagram	6
Future girl? Exploring girls’ digital sexual cultures through speculative fabrications	6
Sexual and reproductive health education in Australia: a qualitative study of health professionals’ views	6
Live-streaming comprehensive sexuality education in Western China: an analysis of the views of implementers and junior secondary students	6
‘What matters what makes us gay?’ Affective failure in a social justice classroom	6
Sexual health education through public service media targeting young people: experience from Finland	5
Breaking the silence: unpacking students’ journeys in sexuality discussions in Hong Kong classrooms	5
Navigating the future of sexuality education in the USA: applying technology mediation theory to AI-Facilitated Sexuality Education	5
What about relationships? Navigating rival perspectives in relationships education	5
“Why do people do sex?” an analysis of middle school students’ anonymous questions about sexual health	5
‘We fear the repercussions from parents’: primary school parents and teachers’ perspectives on the inclusion of LGBTQ+ issues in the English primary school curriculum	5
Parental involvement in school-based sexuality education in the WHO European Region: findings from a scoping review and expert consultations	5
National trends and disparate access to formal and informal sex education among youth involved with the child welfare system in the USA	5
Cultural appropriateness of a comprehensive sexuality education programme. Implications for programme adaptation and implementation in Zambia	5

Under the spotlight: exploring the challenges and opportunities of being a visible LGBT+ teacher	4
Comfort in sexual health communication among medical students: evaluating the efficacy of an online reflective workshop	4
Self-touching, genitals, pleasure and privacy: the governance of sexuality in primary schools in Spain	4
Approaches to delivering contextual and culturally relevant sexuality education: insights from educators in rural schools in Limpopo Province, South Africa	4
Young people and sexual pleasure in Netflix’s Sex Education	4
‘Tumblr didn’t really give me sex ed, it more gave me like, Queer ed’: how 2SLGBTQ+ people with developmental disabilities use social media for information	4
The compromises and contradictions of ‘feminist’ sex and relationships education in the home: empowerment vs. protection in digital risk societies	4
School-based cross-curricular sexuality education and its association with sexual initiation, refusal, and gender in Sweden	4
Comprehensive sexuality education addressing gender and power: a systematic review of intervention effects	4
Semiotic mediation of gender identity in Chinese children’s picture books on sexuality education	4
Relationships and sex education in special schools: highlighting the need for safeguarding for children with learning disabilities	3
Local Absence, Global Supply: Lebanese Youth, Sexual Education, and a Netflix Series	3
Birds, bees and hippies: sex education on TV and in Oz magazine in Britain of the 1960s-70s	3
Adolescence and gender-based violence: comprehensive sexuality education to the rescue in Italian high schools	3
Zimbabwean teenagers learning sexuality and negotiating abstinence	3
Student-reported relationships and sex education coverage and knowledge among a diverse population of early adolescents: a cross-sectional survey of students in England	3
Navigating with pre-teenage children for sexuality education	3
Digitally mediated communication and school-based sex education in the USA	3
‘It wasn’t because I lacked knowledge… it just happened and that´s that’. Towards an understanding of the experiences of adolescent fathers and mothers in Cuenca (Ecuador) and their implications for s	3
Pornography and gender-based violence: two neglected topics in sexuality education. A systematic review	3
Intervening in LGBT+ bullying: what shapes primary teachers’ perceptions and responses?	3
Sexuality educators’ perceptions of and experiences with sexuality certification	3
Refining out-of-school youth sexualities empowerment programmes using a sexual and reproductive citizenship lens: the Masizixhobise toolkit	3
Perspectives of teachers and students on adolescent sexual and reproductive health education in secondary schools in northern Ghana	3
Between culture and knowledge: thematic and sentiment analysis of reflections on a sexuality education course in Qatar	3
Sex 101: a rapid review of research in the United States on the impacts of college sexual health curricula	3
Race as the starting place: equity directors addressing gender and sexual diversity in K-12 schools	3
A virtual sex education tool improved reproductive health knowledge among adolescent girls	3
LGBT+ teachers in Ireland’s experiences in primary schools	3
‘You see all these really beautiful people… and then, you look at yourself’: bodies matter in teenage girls’ engagement with porn	3
Pacific high school students’ experiences of sexual and reproductive health education in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
A pilot evaluation of a training programme on understanding and responding to sexual behaviours in children and young people	3
Sexual and reproductive health and rights content in higher education in Norway – a quantitative document analysis	3
Shattering the silence: exploring the role of Chinese online sexual health influencers in promoting sex education	3
The (re)production of ‘normal’ sexuality: a study of sexuality education for students with psychological and behavioural challenges in the Netherlands	2
Challenging ‘the elephant in the room’: the becomings of pornography education in Swedish secondary school	2
“The professional side of it”: exploring discomfort in delivering RSE in an Independent Boarding School in England	2
‘They’re learning all this stuff, like, accidentally’: US adolescents’ perceptions of Netflix’s Sex Education	2
Parents’ perspectives on gender and sexuality diversity inclusion in the K-12 curriculum: appropriate or not?	2
Photo of Kathleen Quinlivan	2
Whose concerns? Young adults discussing (their) concerns with pornography	2
Bodily excess and the practice of wonder in sexuality education	2
Telling tales from the queer periphery: heteronormative discourses in Australian primary schools	2
How prospective early childhood teachers make sense of sexuality education? Insights from Islamic University courses	2
Child sexual assault or curious play? Adults negotiating appropriate behaviour in terms of age, gender and sexuality when responding to an incident in Swedish early childhood education	2
Efficacy of a sexual development education programme for the mothers of primary school students in Türkiye	2
Sexual and reproductive health in a Vietnamese mountainous area: a qualitative analysis of current community and institutional health education	2
School staff responses to scenarios involving normative and problematic sexualised behaviours in elementary school settings	2
A critical examination of teachers’ approaches to sexuality education in kindergarten	2
“We learn after freaking out”: teachers’ responses to transgender students in Brazilian high schools	2
‘Sex is so much more than penis in vagina’: sex education, pleasure and ethical erotics on Instagram	2
Can AI teach sex ed? A systematic review of the use of artificial intelligence in sexual and reproductive health education	2
Classroom voices: youth perspectives to direct school-based sexual health education	2
Child sexuality and interdependent agency in sexuality education texts for Swedish preschool practitioners 1969−2021: three discourses on children’s sexual play	2
Teachers’ perceptions and attitudes around the possible implementation of sex education in schools: views from teachers in Kazakhstan’s Karaganda Region	2
Cripping sex education: reflections on a public pedagogy project	2
When the facts are not enough: the limitations of fact-checking sex education controversies	2
Fear-based parent-child sexual health communication in rural southwestern Uganda: drivers and influences	2
‘Don’t panic it’s not about sex!’ constructions of the child in relation to sexuality and gender in media coverage of Drag Story Hours in Vienna	2
Preparing peer facilitators to deliver comprehensive sexuality education to underprivileged youth in non-school environments in Ghana	2
Consent education in the early years, taboo or a must-do: early childhood educators’ perspectives on consent education	2