‘We didn't cover that at school’: education<i>against</i>pleasure or education<i>for</i>pleasure?

Ingham, Roger

doi:10.1080/14681810500278451

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“…3 These peer networks may also be sites of learning in relation to sexualities and sexual practice. 25 Young people's friends are an important source of sexual information 26,27 and the provision of sexual health information, 28,29 and learning sexual information from peers is argued to be more effective than learning from adults. 30,31 There is disagreement on how valuable young people consider online sources of sexual health information, however, with some indication that many young heterosexual people from developed countries prefer traditional sources including friends, family, or school.…”

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“It would be weird to have that on Facebook”: young people's use of social media and the risk of sharing sexual health information

Byron¹,

Albury

Evers

2013

Reproductive Health Matters

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In today's media environment, information is not simply passed from producers to consumers, but is mediated by participants of new media cultures, including information on sexual health. In focus groups held in Sydney and regional Australia in 2011, we asked young people aged 16-22 about the potential for sexual health promotion via Facebook and other social media. Our findings point to the complex ways in which young people use social media, and the unlikelihood of traditional take-home sexual health messages having traction in social media spaces. Five key aspects which emerged were: the participatory culture of social network sites; the stigma of sexual health, especially sexually transmitted infections (STIs); young people's careful presentations of self; privacy concerns; and the importance of humour in sexual health messaging. Fears of bullying and gossip (or 'drama') were also likely to prevent the dissemination of sexual health messages in this environment. However, humorous online videos were noted by participants as a significant way to avoid stigma and enable the sharing of sexual health information. The young people in our study were interested in sexual health information, but did not want to access it at the cost of their own sense of comfort and belonging in their social networks. Any sexual health promotion within these sites must be understood as a site-specific intervention.

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“It would be weird to have that on Facebook”: young people's use of social media and the risk of sharing sexual health information

Byron¹,

Albury

Evers

2013

Reproductive Health Matters

106

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“…Research by Ingham (2005) and Hirst (2008) and the keynotes given at 'The Pleasure Principle' conference by Hirst and Ingham were stated as particularly pertinent to the development of the booklet (see appendix 2 for details).…”

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Initiatives to support the inclusion of pleasure in sexual health and sex education work with young people An impact evaluation

Hirst¹,

Wood²,

Burns-O’Connell³

2017

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“…Early sexual debut corresponded with more regret and less SRE. The inclusion of pleasure in SRE in relation to issues of coercion and regret has been considered by many -for example, Gavey (1992), Tolman (1994), Ingham (2005), Fine and McClelland (2006), Allen (2011) and others, such as, Carmody (2005) and Beasley (2008) in relation to sexual violence prevention. If pleasure is asserted as a right and continually reinforced through SRE and issues of safeguarding, young people are more likely to feel vindicated in declining pressure to take part in sexual acts or related activities they are not comfortable with might not enjoy, regret or evoke anxiety.…”

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“…Among factors significant to sexual competence and what is termed variously as 'comprehensive' or 'positive' SRE, pleasure has been highlighted by affiliates in various contexts of place and discipline, for example, Vance (1984), Fine (1988), Tolman (1994), Irvine (2002), Ingham (2005), Allen (2007), Beasley (2008), Schalet (2011) and others. Given that pleasure was highlighted as an omission in discourses of female sexuality more than twenty years ago (Fine 1988) its ongoing exclusion from much sexuality and relationships education in schools is difficult to justify (Fine and McClelland 2006) for numerous reasons (which this paper will outline) but most importantly for reasons of gender equality and potential to achieve safer outcomes.…”

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‘It's got to be about enjoying yourself’: young people, sexual pleasure, and sex and relationships education

Hirst

2013

Sex Education

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Pleasure as a component of sexualities and relationships education has been much rehearsed recently. Arguably, theoretical debate and critique been more prominent than practitioner perspectives on how to persuade stakeholders of the value of implementing pleasure into learning about sexualities and relationships. This paper offers a rationale for positive SRE that includes pleasure. A series of theoretically and empirically supported suggestions are offered to encourage curriculum gatekeepers that SRE premised on a right to pleasure is warranted because of its potential to achieve safer sexual health outcomes and contribute to gender equality. Challenges faced by some sex educators are acknowledged by historicising the often uneasy associations between sexuality, education and youth in relation to some political and academic dimensions of debate, before offering a rationale on ways forward. Analysis focuses on young women. Policy developments relate to the UK but issues raised have relevance for SRE in other contexts.

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‘We didn't cover that at school’: educationagainstpleasure or educationforpleasure?

Cited by 139 publications

References 19 publications

“It would be weird to have that on Facebook”: young people's use of social media and the risk of sharing sexual health information

“It would be weird to have that on Facebook”: young people's use of social media and the risk of sharing sexual health information

Initiatives to support the inclusion of pleasure in sexual health and sex education work with young people An impact evaluation

‘It's got to be about enjoying yourself’: young people, sexual pleasure, and sex and relationships education

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