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This paper explores the connections between ethnicity and sexuality. Racial, ethnic, and national boundaries are also sexual boundaries. The borderlands dividing racial, ethnic, and national identities and communities constitute ethnosexual frontiers, erotic intersections that are heavily patrolled, policed, and protected, yet regularly are penetrated by individuals forging sexual links with ethnic "others." Normative heterosexuality is a central component of racial, ethnic, and nationalist ideologies; both adherence to and deviation from approved sexual identities and behaviors define and reinforce racial, ethnic, and nationalist regimes. To illustrate the ethnicity/sexuality nexus and to show the utility of revealing this intimate bond for understanding ethnic relations, I review constructionist models of ethnicity and sexuality in the social sciences and humanities, and I discuss ethnosexual boundary processes in several historical and contemporary settings: the sexual policing of nationalism, sexual aspects of US-American Indian relations, and the sexualization of the black-white color line.

omprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is increasingly accepted as the most preferred way of structurally enhancing young peoples' sexual and reproductive well-being. A historical development can be seen from "conventional," health-based programs to empowerment-directed, rights-based approaches. Notably the latter have an enormous potential to enable young people to develop accurate and age-appropriate sexual knowledge, attitudes, skills, intentions, and behaviors that contribute to safe, healthy, positive, and gender-equitable relationships. There is ample evidence of program effectiveness, provided basic principles are adhered to in terms of content (e.g., adoption of a broad curriculum, including gender and rights as core elements) and delivery (e.g., learner centeredness). Additional and crucial levers of success are appropriate teacher training, the availability of sexual health services and supplies, and an altogether enabling (school, cultural, and political) context. CSE's potential extends far beyond individual sexual health outcomes toward, for instance, school social climates and countries' socioeconomic development. CSE is gaining worldwide political commitment, but a huge gap remains between political frameworks and actual implementation. For CSE to reach scale and its full potential, multicomponent approaches are called for that also address social, ideological, and infrastructural barriers on international, national, and local levels. CSE is a work never done. Current unfinished business comprises, among others, fighting persevering opposition, advancing equitable international cooperation, and realizing ongoing innovation in specific content, delivery, and research-methodological areas.

Sexual rules and regulations are among society's oldest yet it is only in recent decades that this once-stigmatized field has become the focus of scholarly attention. This volume, which includes some of the most thought-provoking and hard-to-find essays in the field, covers a diverse range of topics from sexual orientation and gender identity to intersexuality and commercial sex, and from HIV/AIDS and trafficking to polygamy. Through historical, political and critical-theoretical lenses, and through a global focus, the selections ask how we conceptualize the groups and acts subjected to sexual regulation and how regulations in the field implicate and produce understandings of sexuality and identity. By placing this variety of works together, Sexuality and Equality Law invites fresh insights into commonalities and synergies across regulatory arenas that are often isolated from one another. The volume's introduction situates all of these works in the broader field and offers readers an extensive bibliography. ; https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1232/thumbnail.jpg

The stereotype of "Platonic love" that developed during the Renaissance implies a type of relationship, between two people of the opposite gender, which does not involve sexual activity. A new examination of certain relevant texts by Neoplatonists such as Plotinus, Porphyry, Hierocles, Hermias, Proclus and Olympiodorus, written during the period of Late Antiquity, establish that the question of sexuality is present in the very architecture of their systems, thus maintaining a coherent approach over time. "Mixed love", tending towards the sexual union that enables the conception of children, is morally good. Through an exegesis of the Symposium, Phaedrus and First Alcibiades, each of these Neoplatonic philosophers explores sexuality through the prisms of cosmology, ethics and political theory.

This chapter reviews the risk factors and treatment options for sexuality and gender diverse populations. Sexuality is a person's sense of themselves as a sexual person and usually reflects their sexual attraction and sexual practice. Heterosexual people are sexually attracted to people of the opposite gender, lesbian women are sexually attracted to other women, gay men are sexually attracted to other men, bisexual people are sexually attracted to people of any gender, and queer people are sexually attracted to people of all genders (queer is also an umbrella term for sexuality and gender diverse people). Evidence from three nationally representative surveys suggests 3.2% of Australian adults report a non-heterosexual identity . Gender identity means the sense a person has of having a particular gender. Cisgender people identify with the sex they were assigned at birth, transgender people's gender does not align with the sex they were assigned at birth. Most transgender people identify as either woman/ female or man/male, however people who feel their gender does not align with either female or male, or exclusively with male or female, use the terms non-binary or gender fluid. There is no reliable evidence on the proportion of gender diverse people in Australia; a systematic review of US population-based surveys provided a population estimate of 0.5%. Establishing an evidence base for patterns of alcohol use and treatment outcomes among sexuality and gender diverse people is challenging. Sexuality and/or gender identity are rarely captured in large surveys and treatment studies, and markers are not included in the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set for all government funded alcohol and other drug treatment specialist services.

Politizando la sexualidad Reseña del libro Desafíos de la Mirada. Feminismo y cine de mujeres en España, de Silvia Guillamón Carrasco, Institut Universitari d'Estudis de la Dona, Univesitat de Valéncia, 2015. ; Reseña del libro Desafíos de la Mirada. Feminismo y cine de mujeres en España, de Silvia Guillamón Carrasco, Institut Universitari d'Estudis de la Dona, Univesitat de Valéncia, 2015.

Politizando la sexualidad Reseña del libro Desafíos de la Mirada. Feminismo y cine de mujeres en España, de Silvia Guillamón Carrasco, Institut Universitari d'Estudis de la Dona, Univesitat de Valéncia, 2015. ; Reseña del libro Desafíos de la Mirada. Feminismo y cine de mujeres en España, de Silvia Guillamón Carrasco, Institut Universitari d'Estudis de la Dona, Univesitat de Valéncia, 2015.

A qualitative study on a sample of 12 Puerto Rican women was conducted in Puerto Rico. The purpose of this study was to explore the various ways in which sexual meanings are created, changed, and modified as the nature of social discourse and personal experience changes. The two theoretical frameworks that guided the methodology and analysis of the data were social constructionism and feminism. I assumed that sexuality is socially constructed, shaped by social, political, and economic influences, and modified throughout life. Feminist theories assisted in documenting the ways in which females' sexuality in Puerto Rico is shaped by culture and by institutions that disadvantage females and other oppressed groups by silencing their voices. The theories guided the discussion of the contradicting messages about women's sexualities and their experiences, as these women fought, conformed to, and even colluded with their oppression. Analysis of the participants' written and oral narratives produced the overarching theme of sexual meanings/scripts, along with three interrelated sub-themes: sources and nature of sexual scripts, determining experiences, and social discourses of female sexuality. Participants reported three institutional sources of sexual messages: family, religion-culture, and institutions of education. Their determining experiences follow a common thread that weaves a common story line: the life-long struggle with the incongruencies between the social constructions of female sexuality and the realities of these women's sexual experiences. Sexuality is defined as being challenged and modified through the participants' lives. Four social discourses of female sexuality emerged from the analysis of the data: source of guilt and shame, vulnerability and sexual victimization, ambivalence, and empowerment. A theory of ambivalence was developed from the data as a means to understand the participants' process of developing the paradigms for their own sexuality. ; Ph. D.

Perversion is traditionally thought as acts that depart from traditional heterosexuality through object, aim or performance. This article excavates the ways in which thinking desire through perversion can renegotiate how we think the body and subjectivity. By actively repudiating dominant paradigms of sexuality it is possible to understand subjectivity as flux, perversion as political and the body defined by its capacity to dissipate and refigure socio-sexual limits. Perversion is not simply against the normal but comes to present a means by which subjectivity may become-otherwise according to Deleuze and Guattari. Considering woman's historical definition as the 'perverted' version of the male (be it castrated, maternal or otherwise), actively engaging in becoming-perverse calls for all subjects to negotiate the political potentials and risks of defining sexual habituation. Occupying the non-dominant position does not necessarily align one with being pervert, however this article will suggest perversion can be used as a means by which those in othered positions, and indeed all subjects, can volitionally explore the position of the other. Perversion is not that which one is named but can be a sexual-political project one undertakes.

In 2017 we started a study on sexuality education (SE) involving two Public Higher Education Institutions (HEI) with master's degree courses for kindergarten and primary education teachers in Portugal. The objectives of the study are: i) to determine if the study plans of teacher training (both for kindergarten and primary education teachers) of the different HEI include curricular units of SE; ii) to verify whether the legal framework in Portugal includes issues directly related to SE; iii) to identify specific contents of SE as part of curricular guidelines in pre-school and primary education; iv) to identify what knowledge, attitudes and behaviours about sexuality exist among future kindergarten and primary education teachers; and v) to develop and evaluate curricular proposals through the design of didactic resources to support educational practices that promote an integrated approach to the different dimensions of SE. In this free paper presentation, the results related to the first three objectives of the study will be presented and discussed. Although there is a legal framework in Portugal that integrates SE from the 1st to the 12th year of schooling, data analysis revealed that only a limited number of HEIs explicitly integrate curricular units directly associated with SE. In addition, the recent guidelines for curriculum support continue to give little or no relevance to the subject. Since kindergarten and primary education teacher training is the responsibility of HEIs, it is urgent to ask questions like these: 1. Are the teachers scientifically and pedagogically prepared to teach SE in schools? 2. How do HEIs plan to meet SE training needs? Is the political power conscious of the situation? Will there be a political will to think about SE strategies that involve schools, families and the community? ; published

In 2017 we started a study on sexuality education (SE) involving two Public Higher Education Institutions (HEI) with master's degree courses for kindergarten and primary education teachers in Portugal. The objectives of the study are: i) to determine if the study plans of teacher training (both for kindergarten and primary education teachers) of the different HEI include curricular units of SE; ii) to verify whether the legal framework in Portugal includes issues directly related to SE; iii) to identify specific contents of SE as part of curricular guidelines in pre-school and primary education; iv) to identify what knowledge, attitudes and behaviours about sexuality exist among future kindergarten and primary education teachers; and v) to develop and evaluate curricular proposals through the design of didactic resources to support educational practices that promote an integrated approach to the different dimensions of SE. In this free paper presentation, the results related to the first three objectives of the study will be presented and discussed. Although there is a legal framework in Portugal that integrates SE from the 1st to the 12th year of schooling, data analysis revealed that only a limited number of HEIs explicitly integrate curricular units directly associated with SE. In addition, the recent guidelines for curriculum support continue to give little or no relevance to the subject. Since kindergarten and primary education teacher training is the responsibility of HEIs, it is urgent to ask questions like these: 1. Are the teachers scientifically and pedagogically prepared to teach SE in schools? 2. How do HEIs plan to meet SE training needs? Is the political power conscious of the situation? Will there be a political will to think about SE strategies that involve schools, families and the community? ; published

The debate over sexuality education reveals important issues regarding government regulation of personal behavior and the role of values in social welfare policy. While often regulated to the realm of public health, the promotion of effective approaches to sexuality education is closely aligned with social work's mission to empower clients and increase their access to resources and information. This article will cover historical trends in sexuality education, the current federal policy and alternatives, and discuss the limitations and subsequent consequences for future policy. Additionally, this article will highlight the important implications of the sexuality education debate for the social work profession.

How does one grasp, historically and conceptually, the relatively recent phenomenon that gay identity politics is systematically mobilized to support racism and imperialism, a phenomenon theorized as "homonationalism" (Puar) and "gay imperialism" (Haritaworn, Erdem & Tauqir)? This dissertation examines psychoanalysis, sexuality, and nationality in late Habsburg Austria in the light of recent analyses of homonationalism and gay imperialism in order to contribute to a better understanding of the long intertwined histories of sexuality, individual selfhood, and racial modernity.Sigmund Freud's theories of sexuality and gender--especially the theories of castration, sexual difference, and Oedipus--form the core of a psychoanalytic understanding of the self. Despite, and in some cases precisely through, their alleged universal character, these theories participate in a battle over the meanings of Czech, European, German, Jewish, and Christian identities brought on by drastic changes in the social and political organization of late Habsburg Austria: industrialization, mass migrations, competing nationalisms, and the rise of the antisemitic movement.In four chapters, titled "Coming Out, Castration, and the Biopolitics of Parental Narcissism," "Sexuality, Antiquity, and the Embodiment of European Culture," "Ritual Murder and Sexuality in the Hilsner Affair," and "Suggestion and Certainty: Two Approaches to a Critique of Antisemitic Knowledge," I read Freud's theories of sexuality and gender together with documents of contemporary social, political, and cultural events: the state's establishment of a social welfare program in 1917; the Badeni affair of 1897 and the politics of Czech and German language rights; the production of King Oedipus at the Viennese Burgtheater in 1886; the Hilsner affair of 1899/1900 and the antisemitic ritual murder discourse. Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and Nationality in Late Habsburg Austria suggests that psychoanalytic accounts of gender and sexuality normalize and justify racialized notions of individuality.

With only one in five secondary-school aged children attending secondary school, a quarter of teenaged girls being pregnant or already having a child (Uganda Bureau of Statistics, 2012), and one out of every five people living below the poverty line in Uganda (CIA, 2013) statistics show the ever prevalent need for sexuality education. As an organisation working in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights, Reproductive Health Uganda wants to standardise and integrate sexuality education in all their projects through developing and rolling out a sexuality education intervention. The challenges faced in this are the concept of 'comprehensive sexuality education' being questioned by the government, and the implementer being the main determinant of what information is provided because they have no handbook to follow. To address these challenges, Reproductive Health Uganda needed to redefine and scope sexuality education. Based on the field and desk research sexuality education was defined as follows: 'providing age-appropriate information on the aspects of sexuality in order to increase knowledge and build (life) skills which enables the individual to understand oneself and make informed decisions'. Based on the outcomes of this research, eleven recommendations for the future sexuality education intervention were made which can be related to either the preparation or sustainability of the intervention.

Perversion is traditionally thought as acts that depart from traditional heterosexuality through object, aim or performance. This article excavates the ways in which thinking desire through perversion can renegotiate how we think the body and subjectivity. By actively repudiating dominant paradigms of sexuality it is possible to understand subjectivity as flux, perversion as political and the body defined by its capacity to dissipate and refigure socio-sexual limits. Perversion is not simply against the normal but comes to present a means by which subjectivity may become-otherwise according to Deleuze and Guattari. Considering woman's historical definition as the 'perverted' version of the male (be it castrated, maternal or otherwise), actively engaging in becoming-perverse calls for all subjects to negotiate the political potentials and risks of defining sexual habituation. Occupying the non-dominant position does not necessarily align one with being pervert, however this article will suggest perversion can be used as a means by which those in othered positions, and indeed all subjects, can volitionally explore the position of the other. Perversion is not that which one is named but can be a sexual-political project one undertakes.