My boyfriend keeps pushing for sex. I don’t feel
ready to sleep with him, but how can I say no without losing
him? I find it hard to get boyfriends and I don’t want
to be alone again. bliss reader, 15
With sexually transmitted infection rates soaring amongst
teenagers and the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe, it’s
clear that young people in Britain aren’t absorbing the
essential facts about how to protect themselves against pregnancy
and disease. Patchy sex education provision coupled with a
reluctance to approach parents means that many teenagers don’t
know where to turn to find reliable answers to their questions
about growing up, sex and relationships. Written by Tina Radziszewicz,
agony aunt of bliss, the fastest growing teenage girls’ magazine
in the UK, The Love Guru’s Guide to Sex covers everything
a teenage girl needs to know about how to have safe, happy
relationships in the 21st century.
Tina Radziszewicz has been bliss magazine’s sex and
relationships columnist since the very first issue in 1995.
Since then she’s received thousands of letters from readers
and is well placed to know exactly what information young women
want and need about sex and relationships.
“In this book I tell girls what happens as their bodies
mature, how relationships work and what language to use to
negotiate their way around them, and what to expect if they
choose to have sex. Readers are encouraged to develop their
own values to help them resist pressure from peers and boyfriends;
it’s OK say no to sex, whatever their mates say they’re
doing. But the overriding message of the book is that we’re
all loveable whatever we look like, and that you can learn
to love what you’ve got. You can’t say that enough
to teenagers.”
Written in accessible language that doesn’t patronise
the reader, The Love Guru’s Guide to Sex is divided into
three sections: Your Body and You, Your Emotions and You, and
Sex and You.
In it the reader will discover:
- all about girls’ bodies and boys’ bodies;
- how to feel great about herself whatever she looks like;
- if a boy fancies her;
- how to have great dates;
- how to have a fabulous relationship;
- how to talk to parents, friends, boyfriends and health professionals about sexual matters;
- how to stand up to sexual pressure from boyfriends;
- how to work out whether she might be ready for her relationship to become sexual;
- why it’s OK to wait for sex;
- sex and the law (and exactly why sex under 16 is illegal);
- all about contraception and avoiding sexually transmitted infections;
- staying safe from sexual abuse and assault;
- what to do if she thinks she might be pregnant.
There’s much more, including quizzes and problem page
Q & As, plus contact details of organisations that can
offer further help.
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