The Love Guru's Guide To Sex

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.

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.

About the author:
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. She trained as a psychotherapist via an MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling. As well as being a bliss agony aunt, she also runs her own psychotherapy practice.