Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture 3: 3-Sex Education Debates

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2163A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Please note that while the lecture may not be entirely complete, the reading that the post was done on last week is testable. "ruined gifts"; "used tape" analogies - gendered message and biased unfairly on females (valenti) In abstinence only sex ed, women are relegated to the home, everyone is straight, the only appropriate family is the nuclear one, and the only sex people have is for reproduction (valenti) No mention of the clitoris, and the importance of it to female pleasure; mainly mechanical about how to produce a child. Men can get excited and it"s okay; nothing taught about what women are "allowed" to experience. No one ever tells you what it means about your relationship when you start having sex. By not talking about emotional context, we are denying teenagers a sense of agency in developing a sexual experience that is tied to emotion and goes beyond simple physicality.