Sexual Health Literacy: Knowledge, Testing, and Informed Decisions
Sexual health literacy is the ability to find, understand, evaluate, and use reliable information about STIs, safer sex, sexual function, consent, and healthcare.
Sexual health literacy is the ability to find, understand, evaluate, and use reliable information about STIs, safer sex, sexual function, consent, and healthcare.
Reproductive health literacy is the ability to find, understand, evaluate, and use reliable information about fertility, contraception, pregnancy, and reproductive healthcare.
Sex education teaches about sexuality, bodies, relationships, reproduction, consent, sexual health, identity, and safer decision-making across different stages of life.
Sexual literacy is the ability to understand, evaluate, communicate, and apply reliable information about sexuality, sexual health, consent, relationships, and identity.
Age-appropriate sex education presents accurate sexuality information at a level suited to a learner’s age, development, maturity, and understanding.
Medically accurate sex education provides current, evidence-based information about sexual health, anatomy, contraception, STIs, reproduction, and related topics.
Rights-based sex education connects sexuality and sexual health with dignity, bodily autonomy, consent, equality, privacy, and access to accurate information.
Trauma-informed sex education teaches sexuality and sexual health with awareness of trauma, emphasizing safety, choice, consent, dignity, and respectful participation.
Inclusive sex education provides accurate, age-appropriate sexuality information that reflects diverse genders, orientations, bodies, abilities, relationships, and experiences.
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