Trevor Stammers lecturer in healthcare ethics St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, London, He is a General Practitioner in London and Chairman of the CMF Public Policy Committee. He is also the author of 'The Family Guide to Sex and Intimacy', 'Love Lies Bleeding - when intimacy turns to abuse' and "Saving Sex: Answers to Teenagers' Questions about Relationships and Sex"

He is a trustee of Family Education Trust and Challenge Teams UK; both charities provide abstinence centred sex education packages to
secondary schools in the UK. He is also a (volunteer) web doctor for Love for Life, the largest provider of abstinence centred sex education to schools in Northern Ireland.

Extract From January 2007 British Medical Journal

Sexual health in adolescents
“Saved sex” and parental involvement are key to improving outcomes.

Despite increasing provision of school sex education, teenage sexual health in the United Kingdom is in overall decline, with increasing rates of terminations and sexually transmitted infections in under 18s outweighing recent modest reductions in conception rates in this age group. Counterintuitively, rather than improving sexual health, sex behaviour interventions can make it worse. Most studies on sex education programmes in schools examine intermediate outcomes only, such as pupil satisfaction or reported condom use. This often facilitates premature false claims of success, whereas more robust outcome measures such as rates of terminations, unplanned conceptions, and sexually transmitted infections show no benefit.

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BMJ 2007