The Conversation, February 16, 2016 10.14am AEDT By Lucy Nicholas, Discipline coordinator and Lecturer in Sociology (gender and sexualities), Swinburne University of Technology Moralising commentaries about the Safe Schools Coalition are dangerously out of touch with the science of sex, the social research about gender and the realities of the ways that young people already understand their own...
Guardian, Monday 16 March 2015 11.36 AEDT A leading sexologist in Denmark has called for pornography to be shown in the classroom, claiming that starting a debate about the industry could help teenagers become “conscientious and critical consumers” who are able to tell the difference between pornography and the reality of sexual relationships. Read more here Read opinion piece “Sex...
SMH, January 9, 2015 – 12:15AM
High school teachers feel ill-equipped to meet the needs of gay and lesbian students and want more guidance on how to tackle homophobia, the review of a NSW pilot program found.
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Vice UK, Oct 21 2014
While the world might have made all sorts of other huge leaps, the teaching of young people about the fundamental aspects of human existence – sex and relationships – seems to have remained in the dark ages.
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The Advertiser, October 06, 2014 11:11PM
TRANSGENDER and gay students are being banned from hugging, playing opposite-sex sports and wearing uniforms of their choice, prompting calls for South Australian schools to deal with discrimination and bullying.
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Education Today, 2014 Vol 14 (3) Term 3 Authors: Anne Mitchell and Pamela Blackman A national survey of the sexual health of Australian secondary students has been carried out approximately every five years since 1992, each survey wave funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. In the latest iteration, new questions were added about use of the internet, technology, and social...