Sex Education as Moral Education: teaching for pleasure, about fantasy, and against abuse

Discursive silences: using critical linguistic and qualitative analysis to explore the continued absence of pleasure in sex and relationships education in England

“…SRE could be improved by teaching boys not to engage in sexually harassing behaviours or rape, as well as by teaching girls how to protect and defend themselves from potential assault. Lamb (1997) has similarly noted that many feminist (and other) initiatives have been undertaken to teach women not to be treated as sexual objects or to be victimised, but too little effort has been given to raising boys not to treat others as sexual objects or to sexually victimise others. Downloaded by [University of California Santa Barbara] at 19:40 17 June 2016 Gemma: It is the guys essentially raping the girls, so they should be taught not to do it.…”

“…Allen 2011;Fine 1988;Fine and Mcclelland 2006). Lamb (1997) has argued that the absence of pleasure in teaching about sex and its positioning as dangerous or risky is particularly problematic for women. Young women are taught to see themselves as potential victims and as sexual objects, rather than as sexual subjects who have a right to desire and seek pleasure on an equal footing with men.…”

Negotiating conflicting values: the role of law in educating for values in England and Wales

“…Others have suggested that the balance should address other priorities. Lamb (1997) suggests that sex education should address gender differences, in particular male sexuality and the propensity to abuse and Spiecker (1992) notes that sex education could include learning to control sexual impulses.…”

Stereotypes in Four Current AOUM Sexuality Education Curricula: Good Girls, Good Boys, and the New Gender Equality

“…This recurring theme has been clear in AOUM education materials-that of a "powerful, innate, hormonally determined sex drive in men, with very little indication that there might be some equivalent in women" (Whatley, 1988, p. 104). In addition, boys and men are represented as always wanting sex whenever they can get it (Allen, 2003;Lamb, 1997;Trudell, 1992). In this way, male desire is naturalized (Bay Cheng, 2003).…”