How comprehensive sexuality education can help reduce violence

The importance of teaching comprehensive sexuality education has been recognized with increasing strength in recent years. Across the world, including in the “global north,” young people are agitating in increasing numbers for access to CSE.

Rightly so: at the intersection between sexual and reproductive health and rights, education and service provision, CSE is a vital means through which to engage with young people on the fundamentals of sex, relationships, gender, consent and sexual health. And yet despite growing recognition of its importance, providing good quality CSE still too often eludes us. It’s a tool with significant untapped potential that we’re yet to fully consider.

CSE is usually thought of in terms of its impact on sexual and reproductive health and rights.