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Sex FAQ: Anal sex, bisexualily, condoms, trans, age of consent?

RFSU's Question Box offers people of all ages the opportunity to get answers to their questions on sexual matters. We have translated a selection of frequently asked questions into English – see Sex FAQ.

Training programmes 2009: LGBT & Human Rights

With funding from Sida (The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency), RFSU and RFSL (The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Rights) will together organise and conduct a training programme on LGBT and Human Rights with partcipants from Asia and Africa.

Read more about our training programmes (note: closing date for 2009 has expired)

In 2008 The Jakarta Post reported from the LGBT and Human Rights conference in Bali: "Asian gay, transgender groups fight for their rights". Read the article here.

Newly published material: Condoms, Clitoral sex, Dicktionary and Pussypedia

RFSU proudly presents the two booklets Dicktionary – What every guy needs to know about his knob and Pussypedia – What every woman needs to know about her genitals. Fresh from the translator we also present and Condoms – a user's guide and A guide to clitoral sex. Read more and download pdf-files here.

Screenshot from the film "Let's talk about sex".

Film: "Talking about sex"

It is possible to change outdated gender roles. The short film Talking about sex introduces you to men and boys who have reconsidered sexist beliefs as a result of participating in the project Young Men as Equal Partners, YMEP. The idea of YMEP is to achieve better sexual health and improve women's standing through changing the attitudes of those who make the decisions – men, that is.

Watch the film about YMEP's work in Tanzania here!

European experts talk about sexual rights
Listen to quotes from the conference "Europe on the Brink"

The conference "Europe on the Brink: Who will decide over your body?" was held in Uppsala in April 2008. Among other things, participants could take part of the results of a research project that has mapped political parties in Europe according to their stance on issues like sexual orientation, international development and termination of pregnancy.

Listen to the participants and read more about the results.

Man holding up Love Support condoms.

Love Support

Love Support was a condom campaign from RFSU. Every Love Support condom package that was sold yielded 5 SEK to an NGO in Zambia. The winners of the Love Support competition (held during the summer of 2007) went to Zambia with representatives from RFSU.
Read about the journey through the eyes of one of the winners, Camilla Riel.

Spotlight: SRHR

What is SRHR? How can it keep the mothers of the world alive? And how can SRHR help eradicate poverty?
Learn more about SRHR here.

Bilden är en banner som gör reklam för en stor sexologisk konferens i Göteborg år 2009..

Abortion – making it a right for all women in the EU

In October 2007, women testified in Brussels about not being able to access abortion in the EU. The setting was a hearing on abortion. Here you'll find a report documenting the event. Among the contents:

- Short summaries and full length-speeches

- Why the focus was on abortion as a right

- What kind of mandate does the EU have when it comes to abortion

- Different views on a common EU law on abortion – do we want one?

The report may be of use in the planning of similar events, and we hope that you will pick up some new information as well as be inspired to form new ideas. And hopefully we will see more joined efforts to tackle the question of abortion within the EU.

Download the report "Abortion - making it a right for all women in the EU". (PDF: 919kb)

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Building trust

During the years 2002 and 2008 RFSU collaborated with the Indian organisation Mother and child health institute (MAMTA) in a project aiming to improve young peoples sexual and reproductive health.
Read about the project in an article that describes methods, difficulties and results.

Tell me more!

Tell Me More is an overview of the strategies children adopt for dealing with sexuality and relationships in the face of HIV/AIDS sub-Saharan Africa. The aim is to provide a coherent rights-orientated and child-oriented knowledge base to advocate for the development of a sexual and reproductive health agenda. The report uses data and information from the work of Save the Children Sweden and RFSU on sexuality and children with evidence from our programmes in Africa. Download the report on Save the Children Sweden's web site www.rb.se.

Sex is politics

RFSU has produced eight fact sheets on SRHR – sexual and reproductive health and rights. Among the titles are: "Sex and poverty" and "Spread Information – not HIV".
Browse among the fact sheets.

Rainbow Walk in India

A delegation from RFSU participated together with Indian LGBT organizations in the Rainbow Walk that took place in Delhi June 29th.
Read press item and see photoes.

Swedish sexuality education
Knowledge, Reflection
and Dialogue

Hans Olsson, Programme Officer at RFSU, about sexuality education in Sweden.
Read the article.

RFSU — the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education