Sex, Ethics, and Young People

Carmody, Moira

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“…In some respects, research has identified this concept of consent as ongoing (Beres, 2010;Beres, 2014;Humphreys, 2004) and that some educators and scholars have identified important skills needed to assess for consent in an ongoingmanner (Jozkowski, 2015;Pineau, 1989). Some educators are also designing (Carmody, 2015) and assessing (Carmody, 2015) programs that begin to address these complexities, supplying skills for seeking and giving clarity in sexual encounters in an ongoing way. With this deconstruction of consent, then, perhaps a greater number of educators might more uniformly aim to focus on developing skills and ethical perspectives that are aligned with helping people to become willing to engage in ongoing presence and dialogue with the other(s) with whom we engage sexually rather than on garnering a simple yes or no at a specific point in time.…”

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Sexual consent as transcendence: A phenomenological understanding

2019

IJTS

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Consent to sex is a topic of much research, particularly with the goal of optimizing sex education for youth, college students, and military service personnel. Sex educators have tended to err on the side of clear and concise definitions of consent for ease of instruction. However, the sexual science literature has steadily shown that the navigation of consent to sexuality activity is much more nuanced, situated and contextual. When consent is conceptualized as a yes or no answer to particular sexual acts or sexual activity altogether, it overlooks the dynamic nature of how people experience consenting. This article examines consent in the sexual science research literature and then considers these findings through the lens of some of the contributions of phenomenological philosophy. We then discuss the experience of consent as a dialogic process that can lead to moments of transcendence of the self and deep reverence for the other, despite some moments of lack of clarity or ambiguity within the same sexual act.

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Sexual consent as transcendence: A phenomenological understanding

2019

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“…Daniel's narrative might offer some possibilities to contest the construction of adults as powerful/ exploitative and children as innocent/powerless, that is, by reversing and/or complicating this binary. Additionally, I will also discuss an example of ethical negotiations in Daniel's sexual relationship (Carmody 2003(Carmody , 2015.…”

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“…Here, I attempt to flesh out Carmody's (2003Carmody's ( , 2015 proposal of building ethical relationships, and Egan and Hawkes's (2009) suggestion of recognizing children as agentic sexual subjects. To date, an analysis of these proposals in the narrative of a sexual experience is barely available in the existing literature.…”

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“…Rather, children need to be encouraged to build ethical and respectful relationships as early as possible (Robinson 2013), but without assigning responsibility to them for their participation in a sexual activity. Currently, knowledge and examples of various ways children ethically negotiate consent, desire, and pleasures in specific discursive contexts of their sexual relationships are still lacking (Carmody 2015). This article seeks to fill this gap, that is, by fleshing out these suggestions in the narratives of children's sexual interaction with adults, and thus call into question the binary of adults' (sexual) powerfulness and children's (sexual) powerlessness underpinning the discourse of CSA (Angelides 2004).…”

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Contesting the Dominant Discourse of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Subjects, Agency, and Ethics

Mulya

2018

Sexuality & Culture

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Responding to previous scholars' call to explore the complexities of child sexual abuse (CSA), this article presents narratives of CSA and scrutinizes a binary construction underpinning this discourse of CSA, namely, the positioning of children as powerless and adults as powerful. The narratives belong to three Indonesian young people who have had sexual interactions with adults when they were children. The findings demonstrate how this binary positioning has been both drawn upon and resisted in the ways participants understand their sexual experiences. This article contributes to the existing literature by providing analyses of some vignettes of everyday experiences of how children might be constituted as sexual subjects, including their capability to exercise agency, perform resistance, and negotiate ethics. The implications of the findings are discussed in relation to how the recognition of children as sexual subjects and their sexual agency might be beneficial for parents, educators, and counselors.

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“…1. Throughout this paper, the terms ethics and ethical are used in line with Moira Carmody's work on sexual ethics (Carmody 2015). This draws attention to the individual, interpersonal and structural contexts of sexuality rather than specific behaviours and acts.…”

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Rethinking consent with continuums: sex, ethics and young people

Whittington

2020

Sex Education

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Sex, Ethics, and Young People

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Sexual consent as transcendence: A phenomenological understanding

Sexual consent as transcendence: A phenomenological understanding

Contesting the Dominant Discourse of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Subjects, Agency, and Ethics

Rethinking consent with continuums: sex, ethics and young people

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