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The objective of the present study was to identify and describe the satisfaction of higher education students with sex education training. An exploratory, descriptive, and cross-sectional study was carried out using the Student Satisfaction with Higher Education questionnaire, which was applied to a sample of 132 higher education students from several countries. In the statistical analysis using the SPSS software version 28, non-parametric tests were used, namely, the Mann\u2013Whitney test and the Kruskal\u2013Wallis test, in addition to Spearman\u2019s correlation coefficient. Overall, the participants considered themselves very satisfied with the sex education training provided (\u03c7 = 4.77). The largest contribution to the satisfaction of the higher education students with the sex education training was the \u201cquality of the training organization (environment and content)\u201d (\u03c7 = 4.79). 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