Informal sex education: sexual ethics in LGBTIQA+ community discourses in Switzerland

Autor(en)

Tanja Vogler

Abstrakt

Formal school-based sexuality education rarely engages with the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, inter, queer and asexual (LGBTIQA+) youth. This paper therefore focuses on sexuality education as reflected in peer-led LGBTIQA+ activist discourses from Switzerland. Discourse analysis was conducted on the ‘problematisation’ of anal sex between 2012 and 2023 in the question-and-answer section of the LGBTIQA+ youth magazine Milchbüechli. The analytical focus was informed by Foucault’s work, taking ‘techniques of the self’ as a point of departure. It aimed to uncover how people come to recognise themselves as subjects of desire in LGBTIQA+ discourses. The results show that peer-led LGBTIQA+ discourses overcome some of the limitations of more formal kinds of sexuality education, for example, through their focus on pleasure or the deconstruction of phallocentric thinking. However, the discourses also fail to consider the sexual body as relational and therefore fail to articulate sexual ethics that are grounded beyond notions of personal autonomy.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Bildungswissenschaft

Journal

Sex Education

Seiten

1-16

ISSN

1468-1811

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2024.2428659

Publikationsdatum

11-2024

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies, 503006 Bildungsforschung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Education, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/83192139-22d1-4db0-b897-9c7654ee8b4c