Sex Education and the Right to Complex Personhood in Relationships

Autor/inn/en	Sweet, Paige L.; Glenn, Maya C.
Titel	Sex Education and the Right to Complex Personhood in Relationships
Quelle	In: Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 23 (2023) 3, S.287-294 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1811
DOI	10.1080/14681811.2022.2071252
Schlagwörter	Sex Education; Adolescents; Intimacy; Self Concept; Interpersonal Relationship; Sexuality; Risk; Health Promotion; Sexual Abuse + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Intimität; Selbstkonzept; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Sexualität; Risiko; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Sexueller Missbrauch
Abstract	This article suggests ways to teach teenagers about their right to complex personhood in relationships in a way that honours the psychological complexities of intimacy, as well as teenagers' wisdom as people already 'in' relationships. Recognition of students' complex personhood entails attention to two dimensions: (1) the emotional ambiguities, pleasures and risks inherent in all intimate relationships; and (2) the socio-structural context of students' lives. We draw from interviews with young adults about their teenage relationships, in which they challenge conventional understandings of 'healthy' versus 'unhealthy' relationship categories. These data reveal that teenagers may benefit from pedagogical conversations centred on the navigation of emotional risks versus the avoidance of risks. Interviews also illustrate how the larger social context and structural forces affecting teenagers' lives shaped the types of intimate harms they navigated, although they did not always have a language through which to understand this structural dimension. Throughout the article, we advance a complex personhood framework, calling on sex educators to centre the emotional ambiguities, depth, wisdom and social embeddedness of teenage relationships. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01