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How to prepare for awkward conversations about sex and relationships

For #SHW24, we’re exploring the links between sexual health and mental health. In this blog, Bethany Frost uses her experience as a parent, teacher, and Brook Education and Wellbeing Specialist…

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Tackling stigma: Let’s expand our definition of male pleasure 

For #SHW24 we’re exploring the link between mental health and sexual health. Damian Weatherald is a sex educator who aims to break down the taboos and barriers associated with sex…

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Brook’s Wellbeing Hubs: Meeting young people at the intersection of sexual and mental health 

Sexual Health Week sees Brook officially open the doors of its new Wellbeing Hubs in Blackburn and Cornwall. To mark this occasion, Helen Corteen, Designated Wellbeing and Mental Health Lead,…

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Why is Relationships and Sex Education good for your mental health 

For #SHW24 we’re exploring the links between mental health and sexual health. In this blog, Brook’s Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Lisa Hallgarten, explains why Relationships and Sex Education…

Diagram showing intersectionality - 5 different coloured circles overlapping, each is labelled differently "sexuality, racial identity, disability, nationality and gender"
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Racism, mental health and sexual health 

For #SHW24 we’re exploring the links between mental and sexual health. In this blog Brook Participatory Advisory Group (PAG) member, 17 year-old Nikki Oni, uses her own experiences to discuss…

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Sex, Self-worth and Stigma: The Links Between Men’s Wellbeing and Attitudes Towards Sex 

For #SHW24 we’re exploring the links between mental health and sexual health. In this blog, Managing Director of Beyond Equality, Dan Guinness, shares some key insights about how men’s attitudes…

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How stigma impacts our mental and sexual health

For #SHW24 we’re exploring the links between mental health and sexual health. In this blog Brook Education and Wellbeing Specialist, Alice Hoddinott, discusses some examples of the ways in which…

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What do the colours of the pride flag mean?

Kenya Scarlett (they/them) is Brook’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead. Ahead of UK Black Pride this weekend, Kenya talks about the QTIPOC (Queer, Trans, Intersex People of Colour) community, it’s…

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Why is sex negativity still informing England’s approach to RSHE?

EDIT: As of October 2024 new RSHE guidance has not been finalised and schools and teachers must still use the 2019 statutory guidance to inform their RSHE policy and curriculum….

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Will the draft RSHE guidance push young people to look for answers elsewhere?

Eliza Allford, 22, is a volunteer Participation Advisory Group member at Brook. In this blog, Eliza talks about how the draft RSHE guidance published this year could exacerbate problems with…

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Meet Helen Brook: Our Founder

It was 60 years ago this month that Helen Brook opened the first ever Brook (Advisory Centre) in Central London, blazing a trail by offering contraception to unmarried women and…

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RSHE: Would proposed age limits put students at risk? 

The Government’s draft RSHE Guidance imposes age limits on certain RSHE topics. Nikki Oni, 17, is a Brook Participation Advisory Group member. In this blog, she talks about her experience…