abstinence

Texas schools are not required to teach any form of sexual education, but those that opt-in will be required to promote abstinence-only guidelines as well as a complete evasion of any LGBTQ discussion.

"I missed her and how much of a positive impact she made on my life."

About 46 million women and girls have gained access to contraceptives in the world's lowest-income countries over the past six years, according to a report.

Activist Mommy blogger Elizabeth Johnston is urging parents to take their children out of school to protest against sex education.

Valerie Huber, acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs at the Health and Human Services Department, previously headed a pro-abstinence organization.

Lent is the time of year when Christians are meant to examine their sins and contemplate sacrifice.

Think you're ready for "hard mode?" That would be cutting out all sexual activity—partnered sex, masturbation, porn, basically anything intended to result in an orgasm.

A new CDC report finds a decline in the number of high schoolers in the U.S. who have sexual intercourse before age 18.

The dean of of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine argued that "scientific" birth control is no more "artificial" than many spiritual means to that end.

The limits of abstinence education and the surprising number of deaths from medical error are among the things we learned in Tech & Science this week.

Programs urging people not to have sex detract attention and resources from critical health topics that are likely to save more lives.

The only way to be hangover-free is to go drink-free, a new paper says.

The campaign is part of an effort to get the FDA to reverse what critics call a double standard for gay and bisexual men.