OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sex Education-Sexuality Society and Learning is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning from pornography: results of a mixed methods systematic review	51
College students’ suggestions for improving sex education in schools beyond ‘blah blah blah condoms and STDs’	37
Barriers to sexuality education for children and young people with disabilities in the WHO European region: a scoping review	32
What and how: doing good research with young people, digital intimacies, and relationships and sex education	26
International barriers to parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health topics: a qualitative systematic review	25
Inclusion of LGBTIQ perspectives in school-based sexuality education in Aotearoa/New Zealand: an exploratory study	21
Cripping Sex Education	20
Within and between heteronormativity and diversity: narratives of LGB teachers and coming and being out in schools	19
Teachers’ perspectives of sexual and reproductive health education in primary and secondary schools: a systematic review of qualitative studies	17
Rethinking consent with continuums: sex, ethics and young people	16
Towards a whole-school approach for sexuality education in supporting and upholding the rights and health of students with intersex variations	16
Parents’ perspectives on the inclusion of gender and sexuality diversity in K-12 schooling: results from an Australian national study	16
Perceptions of Muslim parents and teachers towards sex education in Pakistan	16
Teacher training organisations and their preparation of the pre-service teacher to deliver comprehensive sexuality education in the school setting: a systematic literature review	15
Dilemmas of school-based relationships and sexuality education for and about consent	13
Sex and consent in contemporary youth sexual culture: the ‘ideals’ and the ‘realities’	13
How young people talk about their variations in sex characteristics: making the topic of intersex talkable via sex education	13
Investigating the ‘C’ in CSE: implementation and effectiveness of comprehensive sexuality education in the WHO European region	12
Using TikTok to teach about abortion: combatting stigma and miseducation in the United States and beyond	12
Implementing a whole-school relationships and sex education intervention to prevent dating and relationship violence: evidence from a pilot trial in English secondary schools	12
How should school-based sex education be provided for adolescents in Saudi Arabia? Views of stakeholders	11
Intersex students, sex-based relational learning & isolation	10
Classroom implementation of national sexuality education curricula in four low- and middle-income countries	10
‘They talked completely about straight couples only’: schooling, sexual violence and sexual and gender minority youth	10
Relevant, relatable and reliable: rural adolescents’ sex education preferences	8

Cherish Lives? Progress and compromise in sexuality education textbooks produced in contemporary China	8
Relationships and sex education in the age of anti-gender movements: what challenges for democracy?	8
Barriers to sexual and reproductive education among in-school adolescents in Zomba and Mangochi districts, Malawi	8
‘Good morning boys’: Fa’afāfine and Fakaleiti experiences of Cisgenderism at an all-boys secondary school	7
Faith-sensitive RSE in areas of low religious observance: really?	7
The effects of agential realism on sex research, intersexuality and education	6
Parent–child communication, sexuality and intergenerational conflict in multicultural and multifaith communities	6
Schooling (hetero)normative practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran	6
Parent-adolescent communication about sexual and reproductive health including HIV and STIs in Oman	6
‘Everyone knows someone in an unhealthy relationship’: young people’s talk about intimate heterosexual relationships in England	6
‘Teach as an outsider’: closeted gay academics’ strategies for addressing queer issues in China	5
Once upon a crush story: transforming relationships and sexuality education with a post-qualitative art-ful praxis	5
Influences to HPV completion via a school-based immunisation program	5
Sex education and STI fatalism, testing and infection among young African American men who have sex with women	5
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	5
Scoping review on sex education for high school-aged students with intellectual disability and/or on the autism spectrum: parents’, teachers’ and students’ perspectives, attitudes and experiences	5
Intersex people and educating for the development of personality	5
Teaching sexual consent to young people in education settings: a narrative systematic review	5
Mis-education of Australian Youth: exposure to LGBTQA+ conversion ideology and practises	4
Sex education meets interculturality – German biology teachers’ views on the suitability of specific topics and their personal competencies	4
Primary school parents’ perspectives on relationships and sexuality education in Queensland, Australia	4
College students’ definition of non-consent and sexual refusals in the age of affirmative consent initiatives	4
Can you design the perfect condom? Engaging young people to inform safe sexual health practice and innovation	4
From Deviance to Diversity: Discourses and Problematisations in Fifty Years of Sexuality Education in Denmark	4
Abstinence-only or comprehensive sex education at Myanmar schools: preferences and knowledge among students, teachers, parents and policy makers	4
What have dads got to do with it? Australian fathers’ perspectives on communicating with their young children about relationships and sexuality	4
‘Just wear their hate with pride’: A phenomenological autoethnography of a gay beginning teacher in a rural school	4
Navigating transprejudice: Chinese transgender students’ experiences of sexuality education in Hong Kong	4
Multiple dimensions of safe space for LGBTQ students: school staff perceptions	4
Comprehensive sexual health education and intersex (in)visibility: an ethnographic exploration inside a California high school classroom	4
Becoming ‘good men’: Teaching consent and masculinity in a single-sex boys’ school	4
Emerging adults’ perceptions of school-based sex education on consent, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence	4
Sexual and reproductive health knowledge, attitudes and service uptake barriers among Zambian in-school adolescents: a mixed methods study	4
Sex behaviours and family sexuality communication among Hispanic adolescents	3
Attitudes towards contraception: focus groups with Arkansas teenagers and parents	3
A review of menstrual sex education and management in women with congenital adrenal hyperplasia	3
Teachers’ perspectives on relationships and sex education lessons in England	3
Uncovering withdrawal use among sexually active US adolescents: high prevalence rates suggest the need for a sexual health harm reduction approach	3
Oskuld: Swedish upper secondary student conversations on virginity	3
Parent–child communication on sexual and reproductive health in border districts of Eastern Uganda	3
Adventures in fisting	3
Teaching sexuality education to secondary students in Japan: reflections from Japanese health education teachers	3
Elementary school science teachers’ responses to problem scenarios related to teaching sexuality-related topics	3
The need for booster sex education: findings of a formative evaluation in rural Fresno County, California	3
Sexuality education – do our children need it? Perspective of parents from coastal South India	3
Adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health education: perspectives from secondary school teachers in Northern Nigeria	3
Education from sexual pleasure workshops with self-defining women: a commentary	3
Parents’ perspectives towards sexual and reproductive health and rights education among adolescents in Jordan: content, timing and preferred sources of information	3
HPV vaccination literacy in sexualities education	3
How is sexuality education for adolescents evaluated? A systematic review based on the Context, Input, Process and Product (CIPP) model	3

Teachers’ personal experiences of sexual initiation motivating their sexuality education messages in secondary schools in Kampala, Uganda	2
Associations between sexual orientation, sex education curriculum, and exposure to affirming/disaffirming LGB content in two US-based cohorts of adolescents	2
Sexual health education: the untapped and unmeasured potential of US-based websites	2
Counselling students’ experience of an online sexuality course	2
Preschool children’s knowledge of correct names of genital body parts in Gorgan, Iran	2
Digitally mediated communication and school-based sex education in the USA	2
Using photovoice to identify sexual health needs in Latina early adolescents	2
‘A beacon of the community we stand in’: barriers and facilitators to standardising peer sexuality education at higher education institutions in the south	2
Smellwalks as sensuous pedagogy in sexuality education	2
Educating young people to graduate school with the ability to protect their sexual and reproductive health: a mixed-methods study	2
Sexuality education as political theology: pathways to non-violence	2
Addressing LGBT+ issues in comprehensive sexuality education for learners with visual impairment: guidance from disability professionals	2
Crip-queer intimacy, alliance and activism: towards holistic sexuality education in Taiwan	2
‘It depends entirely on the person’: freedom and inequality in Spanish youth gender discourses	2
Secularisms, sexualities and theology	2
A qualitative exploration of barriers to university students’ willingness to attend sexual violence prevention workshops	2
Exploring the role of sexual attitude reassessment and restructuring (SAR) in current sexology education: for whom, how and why?	2
Pleasure privilege in mediated and relational contexts: sexuality and gender	2
‘He’s so bad but he does it so well’: interviews with One Direction fans about writing romantic and erotic fiction online	2
Adventures in gender and sexualities education: moments of wonder	2
‘They Were Trying to Scare us’: College Students’ Retrospective Accounts of school-based sex education	2
‘I wouldn’t have ever known, if it wasn’t for porn’ – LGBT+ university students’ experiences of sex and relationships education, a retrospective exploration	2
When the facts are not enough: the limitations of fact-checking sex education controversies	2
Intersex and sexuality education: editorial introduction	2
Addressing menstrual stigma through sex education in England- taking a sociomaterial turn	2
Training programmes for practitioners in sexual health promotion: an integrative literature review of evaluations	2
‘Why? And how?’ Translating queer theologies of sex education	2
Non-binary youth and binary sexual consent education: unintelligibility, disruption and possibility	2
Student perspectives on a state-wide relationships and sexual health programme in South Australian schools, 2006–2017	2
Sex Ed Dads: what Australian fathers want their teens to know about relationships and sexuality	2
When responsibility entered the room: interrogating the silence in Christians’ life narratives	2
Bodily excess and the practice of wonder in sexuality education	1
Measured and unmeasured contributions of peer education: experiences from the Get Up, Speak Out for Youth Rights! (GUSO) programme in Kisumu and Siaya Counties, Kenya	1
A double-edged sword: the role of pornography in learning about BDSM	1
Use of media sources in seeking/receiving sexual health information during adolescence among adults of diverse sexual orientations in a US cohort	1
‘It’s whether or not you got people’: school-based social support to address adolescent sexual and reproductive health inequities	1
Sex 101: a rapid review of research in the United States on the impacts of college sexual health curricula	1
Parents’ attitudes towards the content of sex education in the USA: Associations with religiosity and political orientation	1
Sexuality education in Italy 2016-2020: a national survey investigating coverage, content and evaluation of school-based educational activities	1
Wild adventures in thought and deed: in conversation with Kathleen Quinlivan	1
Educational training for healthcare professionals about sexual health and behaviour in later life: a scoping review	1
Sexual and reproductive health education and learning among Indigenous youth of the Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé, Panama	1
Diversity in sex and relationship education – limitations and possibilities in Swedish biology textbooks	1
Cutting facts and values together-apart: an agential realist exploration of Swedish sexuality education	1
How to creatively theorise the wonder of erotica: a womanist’s poetic manifesto on sexual desire and pleasure	1
‘Dirty clothes’: intra-active entanglements in a curriculum of sexual violence	1
Experiencing double silence: sexuality education of south Asian minority youth in Hong Kong	1
A queercripistemological vulnerable pedagogy of care	1
Sex education and the right to complex personhood in relationships	1
Lessons learned from the implementation of the Young Deadly Free peer education programme in remote and very remote Australian Aboriginal communities	1
Local Absence, Global Supply: Lebanese Youth, Sexual Education, and a Netflix Series	1
Educator and staff perspectives on a rights-based sex education for young men in jail and prison in Sweden	1
Preventing image-based sexual coercion, harassment and abuse among teenagers: Girls deconstruct sexting-related harm prevention messages	1
Profiles of parent–child sex communication as a function of timing, frequency and quality	1
Information seeking from a sexual health textline: utilisation and perceptions of helpfulness among young people	1
Challenging ‘the elephant in the room’: the becomings of pornography education in Swedish secondary school	1
Smartphones and the sexual behaviour of Generation Z college men in the USA	1
Seizing sex: a reflection on sex education and epilepsy	1
‘Sex is so much more than penis in vagina’: sex education, pleasure and ethical erotics on Instagram	1
Why New Zealanders won’t talk about sex	1
Ready for Relationships Education? Primary school children’s responses to a Healthy Relationships programme in England	1
Sexuality and intimate relationships in everyday life –young people’s perspectives in Israel	1
School-based relationships and sexuality education programmes in primary schools: contexts, mechanisms and outcomes	1
Sexual prejudice as an institutional barrier to the social justice agenda in early childhood settings	1
Sexual and reproductive health education for young people in Victoria, Australia: a mixed methods study	1
An ‘anchor baby’ yearns for a feminist of colour and decolonial sex education	1
Sexual violence prevention is missing in teacher education: perspectives of teacher candidates on prevention education	1
The omission and minimisation of sexual decision-making skills in US sex education textbooks	1
Action competence for sustainable sexuality: an analysis of Swedish lower secondary level textbooks in biology and religious education	1
Under the spotlight: exploring the challenges and opportunities of being a visible LGBT+ teacher	1
“I wouldn’t want you talking to my kids!”: the politics of age when conducting research about porn with young people	1