Sex - positive parenting is a process that promotes a positive attitude towards one's own and other people's sexuality and that enables each child to develop knowledge, skills and values in an appropriate way for his age and development so that he can make decisions in accordance with his psychological, physical and emotional well-being. Risky sexual behavior is any behavior within sexual activities that increases the possibility of negative outcomes that may have unwanted consequences on physical and psychological health and different relationship dimensions. The objective of the empirical part of this paper is to investigate the presence of risky behaviors and sex-positive parenting and to identify the role of sex-positive parenting in the developmental context of risky sexual behaviors in late adolescence. The research was conducted by online survey method amongst 225 students of Croatian faculties. The results of the research indicate that risky sexual behavior was present in the majority of adolescents, 82.2% to be exact, which is consistent with the results of transcontinental research. Sex - positive parenting was present throughout the growing up of a smaller part of adolescents, 27.6% to be exact. In addition, the results indicate that the aforementioned adolescents, regardless of gender, communicated more often with their mothers than with their fathers. In some adolescents, there is a negative correlation between sex - positive parenting and risky sexual behavior, but when we look at the sample as a whole, there is no statistically significant correlation.