Publishing a booklet on how to talk about sexual pleasure with young people might seem like a good way of asking for trouble from the usual tabloid suspects. But the Centre for HIV and Sexual Health at NHS Sheffield has done just this, in response to growing demand from professionals for sensible advice on how to tackle the topic.
Roger Ingham, professor of health psychology at the University of Southampton's Centre for Sexual Health Research, wrote the booklet's introduction and advised on its content. "One of the things young people say a lot is that the sex education they get is virtually meaningless, it's too biological and doesn't relate to how they are feeling."
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