Sex Ed in the UK and Me

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This one is about a brief history of sex ed in the UK over the last hundred years or so. Part way through I tell my story of how I got into doing this job in 1998 / 1999 in order to tell an autoethnography which illuminates the problems which sex ed, sexual health services, and youth services have faced over the years. I think it reveals something interesting about what culture war and austerity have done and how this may result in a doubling down on a narrow sex ed which doesn’t seem to serve anyone.

Here’s the Department for Education 1943 document I read from https://education-uk.org/documents/boardofed/1943-sex-ed.html

I relied on ‘School sex education: policy and practice in England 1870 to 2000’ by Jane Pilcher

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14681810500038848

The Politics of Sex Education Policy in England and Wales and The Netherlands since the 1980s JANE LEWIS and TRUDIE KNIJN

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-social-policy/article/abs/politics-of-sex-education-policy-in-england-and-wales-and-the-netherlands-since-the-1980s/8913118BB205C133930FED2E05240864

Seventy years of sex education in Health Education Journal: a critical review

Padmini Iyer and Peter Aggleton

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0017896914523942

Here’s a useful document about sexual pleasure in RSE and that Pleasure leaflet debacle I was talking about

https://shura.shu.ac.uk/16764/1/Pleasure%20Evaluation%202017%20FINAL%20final.pdf

And you might be interested in this blog of mine I did last year about the state of RSE in the UK

https://bishtraining.com/the-state-of-rse-in-the-uk/

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