Konstrukcje seksualności nie-dorosłych jako uzasadnienie normalizacyjnych praktyk wychowania seksualnego
Sexuality Constructs of Non-adults as Justification of the Normalising Practices of Sex Education

Summary/Abstract: Sex education is a type of social practice that is performed in school thanks to defined methods, forms and means, and with the involvement of certain parties. Classes in sex education are the object of interest in the discourses of politics, whether political or educational. Within these discourses attempts are made at creating pupils’ attitudes regarding sexuality. In this article I intend to observe the relations between the constructs of the pupils – individuals classified as non-adults – and the process of legitimation of certain regulatory and normalising practices: the practices of sex education. I observe that the ways of creating the status of non-adults and a defined sexuality for them vary in character, but irrespective of the criterion adopted for them, members of this group constitute a constant object of social anxiety. In this context I acknowledge as important the discourses in which there is a revealing of the situation and position of children (here: non-adults) in their relations with adults. Their interpretation allows one to grasp the normalising dimension of regulatory practices applied in regard to the sexuality of non-adults.

• Details
• Contents