Thursday, February 5, 2009

Sex education from feminists

after reading an old post on All About My Vagina, little sparkles started to light in my mind: who can better teach sexuality to children if not feminists and queers? Let me explain: nowadays sex education is in the hands of high but limited-in-understanding authorities like parents, teachers, doctors, priests, eugenists (see Marie Stopes for example), media and celebrities. We should pay attention where Western anti-authoritarian and anti-oppressive sexuality information comes from: anti-oppression movements like feminism, civil rights and LGBTQ. But on the other hand, who controls sexuality controls the whole game - why should sexuality be empowering, why should someone not think for you and tell you what to do exactly? And this a-la-Foucault control is the key element in spreading bigotism. Anti-oppression movements were not so good in dealing with children in the sense that the topic was avoided in practical terms not to mention the fundamentalist attack based on slogans like protecting our children from perverts and Marxist feminists. I think that sex education for children can be a nice start for spreading some valuable and useful information that was kept secret. The image of the child has to be transformed because so far it is manipulated by bigots at their own will. I am glad to see that there are people working on it and there are methods involved: a collection of tools for learning about sexuality, drawn from do-it-yourself philosophies, unschooling, anti-oppression and pro-equality movements, nonviolence, a lot of sex activism and education, and some network mathematics for good measure.

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