Educational Activity
sex education
sex ed·u·ca·tion [ seks ej-oo-key-shuhn ]
Subclass of:
Health education; Sexology
Definitions related to sex education:
  • Education which increases the knowledge of the functional, structural, and behavioral aspects of human reproduction.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Instruction which increases the knowledge of the functional, structural, and behavioral aspects of human reproduction; for education programs which involve the promotion of safe sex and sex abstinence, post coordinate with SAFE SEX/SEX ABSTINENCE.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (teaching: sexuality) Assisting individuals to understand physical and psychosocial dimensions of sexual growth and development
    Nursing Interventions Classification
    University of Iowa, 2007
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