Sex Education

The workshop aims to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discourse and critical reflections on the various dimensions of Sex Education, including its subjectivities, materialities, and differences. Sex Education is subject to ongoing heated and often morally charged social and political debates and an arena of the “Sexual Antinomies in Late Modernity” (Jackson/Scott 2004): It is often perceived either as instrument for indoctrination or as necessary tool for sexual autonomy. Beyond such moralizing discourses, the forthcoming workshop is interested in a perspective on sexuality as a cultural product of knowledge processes: We understand Sex Education (1) as a key cultural field in which knowledge about sexuality, and thus “sexuality” itself, is re-produced, and (2) in a broad sense: In addition to institutionalized educational programs (e. g. in schools or as offered by NGOs or sexual health programs), we include all phenomena that convey sexual knowledge in their self-understanding (including but not limited to areas such as tantra, sexual assistance, …), or that can be analyzed as ‘educational’ in a wider sense (such as literature, art, porn, social media, …).

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