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Sexual health and relationships

In this section, we talk about:

  • how to have safe and healthy sex

  • Your relationship with someone is how you are connected to them.

You can have relationships with lots of different people.

And these relationships might all be different to each other.

For example, you can have relationships with:

  • partners, like a boyfriend or girlfriend
  • members of your family
  • friends
  • people who take care of you.

In this section, we also talk about

When you give your consent, you say it is okay for someone to do something.

When you give consent to do sexual things with other people, everyone needs to:

  • understand what they are agreeing to
  • want to take part.

Consent also means that at any time, anyone can:

  • change their mind
  • stop taking part in what they are doing.
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