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Mandatory sex-education classes are returning to New York City public schools for the first time in nearly two decades.

Inappropriate text message discovered by a 13-year-old boy's parents lead detectives to arrest a teacher's aide on suspicion of having sex with the boy in an empty classroom.

The lawyer for a teenager at the center of Lawrence Taylor's sexual misconduct case says the girl will make an impact statement at the former football star's sentencing....

Italian prosecutors say that the Italian leader paid for sex with an under-age Moroccan teen 13 times.

A growing number of teens and young adults say they've never had sexual contact with another person, according to the largest and most in-depth ...

Teens who text 120 times a day or more — and there seems to be a lot of them — are more likely to have had sex or used alcohol and drugs than kids who don't send as many messages, according to provocative new research.

Most teens who engage in oral sex for the first time will have vaginal intercourse within six months, a new poll indicates.

The male-female orgasm gap. The sex lives of 14-year-olds. An intriguing breakdown of condom usage rates, by age and ethnicity, with teens emerging as more safe-sex-conscious than boomers.

A group of people who trafficked underage girls to London to sell them for sex will be sentenced Tuesday for trafficking and prostitution offenses, police said.

The nation's leading group of pediatricians has issued a strong policy statement directed toward pediatricians, parents and mass media on the ...