As children get older, the way they express their sexual feelings changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These days children are exposed to sexual images at a far younger age, and in more places than ever before, such as music videos, websites and social media. It’s therefore not surprising that sometimes children’s sexual development can seem out of step with their age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NSPCC has lots of information about healthy sexual behaviour<\/a>, including how to keep children safe, warning signs and what to do if you\u2019re worried about sexual abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Devon Sexual Health<\/a> has lots of useful information and advice about sex, health and relationships<\/a>, including contraception<\/a>, sexually transmitted diseases<\/a> (including HIV) and free chlamydia screening.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also find out where your nearest<\/a> sexual health clinic or contraception provider is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Young people can also get sexual health information, advice and services from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n As children get older, the way they express their sexual feelings changes. These days children are exposed to sexual images at a far younger age, and in more places than ever before, such as music videos, websites and social media. It’s therefore not surprising that sometimes children’s sexual development can seem out of step with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":802,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1429","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 16:59:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1429\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Local contraception and sexual health clinics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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