OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sex Education-Sexuality Society and Learning is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
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	22
'Where do I come from?' Interrogating imagined childbirth within a sexuality education museum exhibit	21
Action competence for sustainable sexuality: an analysis of Swedish lower secondary level textbooks in biology and religious education	21
Crip-queer intimacy, alliance and activism: towards holistic sexuality education in Taiwan	14
Beyond panic: navigating the tides of change in relationships and sex education	13
Becoming ‘good men’: Teaching consent and masculinity in a single-sex boys’ school	13
Secularisms, sexualities and theology	12
Preparing to research LGBTQI+ lives with children: an imaginary conversation with Kathleen Quinlivan about failure, art and hope	12
Fertility knowledge of Japanese undergraduates aspiring to become schoolteachers: a cross-sectional survey	11
How Do Mothers Prepare for Sexual Health Discussions with their Young Adolescents?	10
The teaching body in sexuality education – intersections of age, gender, and sexuality	10
What have dads got to do with it? Australian fathers’ perspectives on communicating with their young children about relationships and sexuality	9
Training programmes for practitioners in sexual health promotion: an integrative literature review of evaluations	9
Sexual health education: the untapped and unmeasured potential of US-based websites	9
Ethical decision-making for sexuality educators: a new model	9
Student-reported relationships and sex education coverage and knowledge among a diverse population of early adolescents: a cross-sectional survey of students in England	8
Teachers’ perceptions and attitudes around the possible implementation of sex education in schools: views from teachers in Kazakhstan’s Karaganda Region	8
Refining out-of-school youth sexualities empowerment programmes using a sexual and reproductive citizenship lens: the Masizixhobise toolkit	8
Cripping sex education: reflections on a public pedagogy project	7
Healthy sex, moving beyond legal consent framing in sex education: a call to action in US colleges and universities	7
Preschool children’s knowledge of correct names of genital body parts in Gorgan, Iran	7
Barriers to discussing comprehensive sexuality education: a qualitative study of home tutor-student interpersonal communication in Bangladesh	6
Exploring the role of sexual attitude reassessment and restructuring (SAR) in current sexology education: for whom, how and why?	6
‘They talked completely about straight couples only’: schooling, sexual violence and sexual and gender minority youth	6
Educational training for healthcare professionals about sexual health and behaviour in later life: a scoping review	6

Sexuality and gender diversity in children and young people: opportunities, limits and challenges in training for professionals via a MOOC course	6
Does Yes Mean Yes? Differences in US college students’ understanding of sexual consent	6
Efficacy of a sexual development education programme for the mothers of primary school students in Türkiye	6
The compromises and contradictions of ‘feminist’ sex and relationships education in the home: empowerment vs. protection in digital risk societies	6
Comfort in sexual health communication among medical students: evaluating the efficacy of an online reflective workshop	6
Primary school parents’ perspectives on relationships and sexuality education in Queensland, Australia	6
“The professional side of it”: exploring discomfort in delivering RSE in an Independent Boarding School in England	6
Sexuality educators’ perceptions of and experiences with sexuality certification	6
The “memeification” of sexual health communication on Instagram	6
Self-touching, genitals, pleasure and privacy: the governance of sexuality in primary schools in Spain	6
Zimbabwean teenagers learning sexuality and negotiating abstinence	6
Dominant ideologies in sexual health education discourse in Saudi Arabia: a critical discourse analysis of school curricula	5
‘I want my [un]happy ending!’ Queering happily ever after with/in a primary classroom	5
‘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	5
Semiotic mediation of gender identity in Chinese children’s picture books on sexuality education	5
Oskuld: Swedish upper secondary student conversations on virginity	5
Pacific high school students’ experiences of sexual and reproductive health education in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
Intersex and sexuality education: editorial introduction	5
From pedagogies of exposure to cultures of conversation: exploring discomfort and engagement in relationships and sex education (RSE) continuing professional development	5
Child sexuality and interdependent agency in sexuality education texts for Swedish preschool practitioners 1969−2021: three discourses on children’s sexual play	4
‘You see all these really beautiful people… and then, you look at yourself’: bodies matter in teenage girls’ engagement with porn	4
‘I wouldn’t have ever known, if it wasn’t for porn’ – LGBT+ university students’ experiences of sex and relationships education, a retrospective exploration	4
Before ‘gender whisperers’: morality, teacher employment and LGBTIQ+ futures	4
The diverse but common definitions of sex for young people in Australia	4
Gender, sex and equal health: school nurses’ strategies and experiences of including boys in the HPV vaccination programme in Swedish primary schools	4
The vagina problem: a step too far in parent–child sex communication with young children	4
A father’s role in the sexual health education of their children: a scoping review	4
Sex Ed Dads: what Australian fathers want their teens to know about relationships and sexuality	4
Intersections of age and agency as trans and gender diverse children navigate primary school: listening to children in (re)considering the potential of sexuality education	4
Preparing to teach relationships and sexuality education: student teachers’ perceived knowledge and attitudes	4
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
Sexual violence prevention is missing in teacher education: perspectives of teacher candidates on prevention education	3
School district choice of sexuality education curriculum in Mississippi	3
WhatsApp-based sexual and reproductive health education for adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV: lessons learned from an mHealth pilot intervention in South Africa	3
Parents’ perspectives on the inclusion of gender and sexuality diversity in K-12 schooling: results from an Australian national study	3
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	3
Declining nudes: Canadian teachers’ responses to including sexting in the sexual health and human development curriculum	3
Provision of sex-related education to children in camps for internally displaced people in Benue State, Nigeria: mothers’ attitudes and practices	3
‘What matters what makes us gay?’ Affective failure in a social justice classroom	3
Using TikTok to teach about abortion: combatting stigma and miseducation in the United States and beyond	3
Sexual and reproductive health and rights content in higher education in Norway – a quantitative document analysis	3
The Genderbread Person: mapping the social media debate about inclusive sexuality education	3
Erasure and agency in sexuality and relationships education and knowledge among trans young people in Australia	3
What do 3–6-year-old children in Finland know about sexuality? A child interview study in early education	3
Teaching sexual consent to young people in education settings: a narrative systematic review	3
The need for booster sex education: findings of a formative evaluation in rural Fresno County, California	3
Once upon a crush story: transforming relationships and sexuality education with a post-qualitative art-ful praxis	3
Parental attitudes to school- and home-based relationships, sex and health education: evidence from a cross-sectional study in England and Wales	3