The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) posits that every individual—including young people—has the right to make their own choices about their sexual and reproductive health (United Nations Population Fund 2020). A rapid fact-check looking at young people’s realities suggests that there is a considerable gap between global policies and local realities. Young people have to navigate their sexual and reproductive health at the conjuncture of individual and social, economic, cultural, and political realities. They necessarily balance intimacy and societal prescriptions, often in contexts of inequitable gender norms and gerontocracy (Van der Sijpt 2013). Their ability to start a healthy sexual and reproductive life is thus reliant on multiple factors beyond their control, embracing, besides individual capabilities, also social norms and structural conditions. In many societies, sexual norms are more restrictive for young unmarried women, and their access to sexual and reproductive health information and services may be restricted due to the stigma associated with these conditions (Heise et al. 2019)....