The aims of sex education: Demoting autonomy and promoting mutuality

Educational Theory

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 483-496

  Mcavoy, Paula ^a  

^a Spencer Foundation   (United States)

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EID: 84886933155     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/edth.12036     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. David Archard, Sex Education (London: Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, 2000), 37 (emphasis added). This work will be cited in the text as SE for all subsequent references.
2. Brighouse, School Choice and Social Justice, 66 (emphasis in original).
3. Advocates for Youth, ''Sex Education,'' http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/sex-education-home.
4. James Wagoner, ''Teens Need Information, Not Censorship,'' http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/topics-issues/abstinenceonly/761?task=view (emphasis in original).
5. Also see Josh Corngold's defense of autonomy in ''Moral Pluralism and Sex Education.''
6. Archard, Sex Education, 38.
7. For a sociological account of advertising to children, see Juliet Shor, Born to Buy: TheCommercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (New York: Scribner, 2005).
8. Sigal Ben-Porath, Tough Choices: Structured Paternalism and the Landscape of Choice (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2010).
9. Lamb, ''Toward a Sexual Ethics Curriculum,'' 94. Lamb builds upon this argument in ''Just the Facts?,'' in which she makes an appeal for an ''other-focused'' curriculum.
10. Sarroub, All American Yemeni Girls.
11. Elliott, ''Danger, Control, and Responsibility,'' 17.
12. bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (New York: Washington Square Press,2004), 35.
13. Louise Archer, Race, Masculinity and Schooling (Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press, 2003),101-102.
14. Lamb, ''Toward a Sexual Ethics Curriculum,'' 91.