HIS 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sex Education, Heteronormativity, Our Bodies, Ourselves
Document Summary
Demand for more information about sex in schools in the 60s and 70s. Formal sex education placed into schools around the world. Reproductive capacity and sexual organs explained in class without any sex i. Message to students was to avoid sexual activity. Message to critics was that the sexual revolution would be contained. Critics are people who were opposed to formal sex education happening wit. Assumptions that there is one definition of sex. Anything other than this heteronormative narrative is unincluded. Avoided the four big taboos: abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and masturba. Very significant strong opposition to formal sex education even if it is heteronorma. It didn"t matter what educators said about how to prevent unwanted pregnanc were just against it as a part of the sexual revolution that was occurring. Opposition to sex education because it violates parental rights and responsibilities. European court of human rights in 1976 rules that sex education in public sc parental freedom.
