Doing 'it' differently: relinquishing the disease and pregnancy prevention focus in sexuality education
Author:
Louisa Allen a
| Affiliation: | a University of Auckland, New Zealand |
DOI:
10.1080/01425690701505367
Publication Frequency:
6 issues per year
Published in:
British Journal of Sociology of Education,
Volume
28,
Issue
5
September
2007
, pages 575
- 588
Subject:
Sociology of Education;
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Abstract
Despite policy provision enabling sexuality education to address more than disease and pregnancy prevention, this focus continues to permeate many school programmes. This paper problematises the danger prevention emphasis in sexuality education, examines school's investment in it and asks how useful it is. The ways this kind of sexuality education may inhibit the reduction of 'negative' sexual outcomes and fail to support young people's sexual well-being is explored. Suggesting sexuality education might be conceptualisxed without this danger prevention emphasis necessitates an exploration of what might replace it. Foucault's work around an ethics of pleasure is drawn on as one example of how the objectives of sexuality education might be re-envisaged.
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