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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How Do Mothers Prepare for Sexual Health Discussions with their Young Adolescents?	37
Teachers’ perceptions and experiences of delivering LGBTQ+ inclusive Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in England	34
Understanding Chinese parents’ experiences supporting romantic relationship development among adolescents with intellectual disabilities	19
Parents’ interest in receiving sexuality education to inform a parent-focused intervention in Medellín, Colombia	17
Does Yes Mean Yes? Differences in US college students’ understanding of sexual consent	16
Educational training for healthcare professionals about sexual health and behaviour in later life: a scoping review	15
Dominant ideologies in sexual health education discourse in Saudi Arabia: a critical discourse analysis of school curricula	15
Preparing to research LGBTQI+ lives with children: an imaginary conversation with Kathleen Quinlivan about failure, art and hope	14
“They waited for me to cross into puberty, which was too late … .”: parent–adolescent communication on risky sexual behaviour in south-central Uganda	14
'Where do I come from?' Interrogating imagined childbirth within a sexuality education museum exhibit	13
Fertility knowledge in a cohort of Australia’s adolescents: a cross-sectional study of reproductive and sexual health education	13
‘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	13
‘I wouldn’t have ever known, if it wasn’t for porn’ – LGBT+ university students’ experiences of sex and relationships education, a retrospective exploration	12
What do 3–6-year-old children in Finland know about sexuality? A child interview study in early education	11
Orienting teachers towards the pedagogical ideal of talking - the production of pedagogic objects in professional development	11
Preparing to teach relationships and sexuality education: student teachers’ perceived knowledge and attitudes	11
An ethnographic study of school bullying, LGBTQI+ subjectivities and the institutional context of schooling in Sweden	11
Declining nudes: Canadian teachers’ responses to including sexting in the sexual health and human development curriculum	11
Parental attitudes to school- and home-based relationships, sex and health education: evidence from a cross-sectional study in England and Wales	11
Sexual prejudice as an institutional barrier to the social justice agenda in early childhood settings	11
‘Teach as an outsider’: closeted gay academics’ strategies for addressing queer issues in China	10
Social work students in school: critical reflections on interventions with LGBTQ+ young people within secondary schools	10
Three-to-six-year-olds’ sexuality-related knowledge in Finland: impact of early education professionals’ training	9
The implementation of compulsory relationships and sex education in English secondary schools: qualitative research in the 2022–23 school year	9
Australian teacher attitudes, beliefs and comfort towards sexuality and gender diverse students	9

What might gay anal sex teach sexuality education? Reading the penetrated male in Witi Ihimaera’s The Uncle’s Story	8
Drawing the charmed circle in designing sexual and reproductive health and rights education: reflections on twenty years’ practice	8
Multiple dimensions of safe space for LGBTQ students: school staff perceptions	8
Queer family intimacies: sex and love betweenprimosin Mexico	8
Fathers’ reflections on adolescent sex education in Chile - Generación de Transición	8
Parental sexual communication self-efficacy with toddlers and young children: an active learning intervention	8
Syndemic sex education	8
“Something that is so overlooked”: joyfully exploring queer bodies and sexualities in sexuality education with teachers in New Brunswick, Canada	8
Sexual health education knowledge required by health education teachers in Finland	7
“I wouldn’t want you talking to my kids!”: the politics of age when conducting research about porn with young people	7
Associations between sexual orientation, sex education curriculum, and exposure to affirming/disaffirming LGB content in two US-based cohorts of adolescents	7
The ongoing pleasure paradox: how practitioners are compelled to silence, sanitise and securitise pleasure in English RSE	7
Experiences of school-based sexuality education among young adult women who have sex with women in German-speaking Switzerland	7
A qualitative exploration of nursing and social work university students’ experiences of sexual and reproductive health and rights education in Australia and Hong Kong	7
’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	7
Debating Sexual Consent in the Teen Series The Hockey Girls : Reactions of Instagram Audiences	7
Young adult perspectives on sexuality education in Australia: implications for sexual violence primary prevention	7
From rage to love: travesti-centred education in Argentina	7
United States of hate: mapping backlash Bills against LGBTIQ+ youth	7
School health teachers’ gender-sensitive sexual health education experiences in South Korea	7
Sexuality and gender diversity in children and young people: opportunities, limits and challenges in training for professionals via a MOOC course	6
The “memeification” of sexual health communication on Instagram	6
Parental engagement in sex health education for young children: perspectives from Malaysia	6
Becoming ‘good men’: Teaching consent and masculinity in a single-sex boys’ school	6
Comprehensive school-based sexuality education: outcome evaluation results from Hong Kong	6
Perceived usefulness of sex and relationship education sources among sexual minority men	6
Crip-queer intimacy, alliance and activism: towards holistic sexuality education in Taiwan	6
The vagina problem: a step too far in parent–child sex communication with young children	6
Support for school-based relationships and sexual health education: a national survey of Australian parents	5
Future girl? Exploring girls’ digital sexual cultures through speculative fabrications	5
Live-streaming comprehensive sexuality education in Western China: an analysis of the views of implementers and junior secondary students	5
Breaking the silence: unpacking students’ journeys in sexuality discussions in Hong Kong classrooms	5
‘What matters what makes us gay?’ Affective failure in a social justice classroom	5
Sexuality education in Italy 2016-2020: a national survey investigating coverage, content and evaluation of school-based educational activities	5
Beyond rationality: the role of educator self-disclosure in sexual violence prevention education	5
Relationships and sexuality education for primary school students: results of a pre-post intervention study	5
Erasure and agency in sexuality and relationships education and knowledge among trans young people in Australia	5
Affective-sexual education in teacher training: the long road ahead in Spain	5
“Why do people do sex?” an analysis of middle school students’ anonymous questions about sexual health	5
Cultural appropriateness of a comprehensive sexuality education programme. Implications for programme adaptation and implementation in Zambia	5
Sexual and reproductive health education in Australia: a qualitative study of health professionals’ views	4
The effectiveness of comprehensive sexuality education in weakening explicit and implicit gender biases among university students in China	4
Young people and sexual pleasure in Netflix’s Sex Education	4
Adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health education: perspectives from secondary school teachers in Northern Nigeria	4
Navigating the future of sexuality education in the USA: applying technology mediation theory to AI-Facilitated Sexuality Education	4
Parental involvement in school-based sexuality education in the WHO European Region: findings from a scoping review and expert consultations	4
Approaches to delivering contextual and culturally relevant sexuality education: insights from educators in rural schools in Limpopo Province, South Africa	4
Under the spotlight: exploring the challenges and opportunities of being a visible LGBT+ teacher	4
National trends and disparate access to formal and informal sex education among youth involved with the child welfare system in the USA	4
‘We fear the repercussions from parents’: primary school parents and teachers’ perspectives on the inclusion of LGBTQ+ issues in the English primary school curriculum	4

Teaching sexuality education to secondary students in Japan: reflections from Japanese health education teachers	4
Adventures in fisting	4
Seizing sex: a reflection on sex education and epilepsy	4
Perspectives of teachers and students on adolescent sexual and reproductive health education in secondary schools in northern Ghana	3
Birds, bees and hippies: sex education on TV and in Oz magazine in Britain of the 1960s-70s	3
‘They Were Trying to Scare us’: College Students’ Retrospective Accounts of school-based sex education	3
Sexuality educators’ perceptions of and experiences with sexuality certification	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
Sexual and reproductive health and rights content in higher education in Norway – a quantitative document analysis	3
‘You see all these really beautiful people… and then, you look at yourself’: bodies matter in teenage girls’ engagement with porn	3
Ready for Relationships Education? Primary school children’s responses to a Healthy Relationships programme in England	3
Navigating with pre-teenage children for sexuality education	3
Local Absence, Global Supply: Lebanese Youth, Sexual Education, and a Netflix Series	3
Sex 101: a rapid review of research in the United States on the impacts of college sexual health curricula	3
Self-touching, genitals, pleasure and privacy: the governance of sexuality in primary schools in Spain	3
Pacific high school students’ experiences of sexual and reproductive health education in Aotearoa New Zealand	3
Semiotic mediation of gender identity in Chinese children’s picture books on sexuality education	3
LGBT+ teachers in Ireland’s experiences in primary schools	3
‘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	3
Pornography and gender-based violence: two neglected topics in sexuality education. A systematic review	3
Sexuality and intimate relationships in everyday life –young people’s perspectives in Israel	3
Relationships and sex education in special schools: highlighting the need for safeguarding for children with learning disabilities	3
A pilot evaluation of a training programme on understanding and responding to sexual behaviours in children and young people	3
The compromises and contradictions of ‘feminist’ sex and relationships education in the home: empowerment vs. protection in digital risk societies	3
Comprehensive sexuality education addressing gender and power: a systematic review of intervention effects	3
Comfort in sexual health communication among medical students: evaluating the efficacy of an online reflective workshop	3
Refining out-of-school youth sexualities empowerment programmes using a sexual and reproductive citizenship lens: the Masizixhobise toolkit	3
School-based sexual and reproductive health education for young people from low-income neighbourhoods in Northeastern Brazil: the role of communities, teachers, health providers, religious conservatis	3
Shattering the silence: exploring the role of Chinese online sexual health influencers in promoting sex education	3
“The professional side of it”: exploring discomfort in delivering RSE in an Independent Boarding School in England	2
Parents’ perspectives on gender and sexuality diversity inclusion in the K-12 curriculum: appropriate or not?	2
Classroom voices: youth perspectives to direct school-based sexual health education	2
Bodily excess and the practice of wonder in sexuality education	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
A virtual sex education tool improved reproductive health knowledge among adolescent girls	2
‘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	2
When the facts are not enough: the limitations of fact-checking sex education controversies	2
Cripping sex education: reflections on a public pedagogy project	2
Teachers’ perceptions and attitudes around the possible implementation of sex education in schools: views from teachers in Kazakhstan’s Karaganda Region	2
The (re)production of ‘normal’ sexuality: a study of sexuality education for students with psychological and behavioural challenges in the Netherlands	2
‘It depends entirely on the person’: freedom and inequality in Spanish youth gender discourses	2
Telling tales from the queer periphery: heteronormative discourses in Australian primary schools	2
“We learn after freaking out”: teachers’ responses to transgender students in Brazilian high schools	2
Photo of Kathleen Quinlivan	2
Consent education in the early years, taboo or a must-do: early childhood educators’ perspectives on consent education	2
Whose concerns? Young adults discussing (their) concerns with pornography	2
Sexual and reproductive health in a Vietnamese mountainous area: a qualitative analysis of current community and institutional health education	2
Efficacy of a sexual development education programme for the mothers of primary school students in Türkiye	2
Exploring the role of sexual attitude reassessment and restructuring (SAR) in current sexology education: for whom, how and why?	2
Challenging ‘the elephant in the room’: the becomings of pornography education in Swedish secondary school	2
How prospective early childhood teachers make sense of sexuality education? Insights from Islamic University courses	2
Digitally mediated communication and school-based sex education in the USA	2
‘Sex is so much more than penis in vagina’: sex education, pleasure and ethical erotics on Instagram	2
Preparing peer facilitators to deliver comprehensive sexuality education to underprivileged youth in non-school environments in Ghana	2
Race as the starting place: equity directors addressing gender and sexual diversity in K-12 schools	2
A critical examination of teachers’ approaches to sexuality education in kindergarten	2
Sex Education by Theatre (SExT): the impact of a culturally empowering, theatre-based, peer education intervention on the sexual health self-efficacy of newcomer youth in Canada	2
Ethical decision-making for sexuality educators: a new model	2