Childhood And Sexuality: Contemporary Issues And Debates (studies In Childhood And Youth)
by Paul Reynolds /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book explores how children engage with sex and sexuality.
Building on a conceptual and legal grounding in sexuality studies
and the new sociology of childhood, the authors debate the age of
consent, teenage pregnany, sexual diversity, sexualisation, sex
education and sexual literacy, paedophilia, and sex in the digital
age. Whilst Moore and Reynolds recognise the necessity of child
protection and safeguarding in the context of risk, danger and
harm, they also argue that where these stifle children’s sexual
knowledge, understanding, expression and experience, they
contribute to a climate of fear, ignorance and bad experiences or
harms. What is necessary is to balance safeguarding with enabling,
and encourage judicious understandings that advance from a rigid
developmental model to one that recognises pleasure and excitement
in children’s nascent sexual lives. Exploring that balance through
their chosen issues, they seek to encourage changed thinking in
professional, personal and academic contexts, and speculate that
children might teach adults something about the way they think
about sex.
This book explores how children engage with sex and sexuality.
Building on a conceptual and legal grounding in sexuality studies
and the new sociology of childhood, the authors debate the age of
consent, teenage pregnany, sexual diversity, sexualisation, sex
education and sexual literacy, paedophilia, and sex in the digital
age. Whilst Moore and Reynolds recognise the necessity of child
protection and safeguarding in the context of risk, danger and
harm, they also argue that where these stifle children’s sexual
knowledge, understanding, expression and experience, they
contribute to a climate of fear, ignorance and bad experiences or
harms. What is necessary is to balance safeguarding with enabling,
and encourage judicious understandings that advance from a rigid
developmental model to one that recognises pleasure and excitement
in children’s nascent sexual lives. Exploring that balance through
their chosen issues, they seek to encourage changed thinking in
professional, personal and academic contexts, and speculate that
children might teach adults something about the way they think
about sex.Childhood and Sexuality
Childhood and Sexuality will be of interest to students,
scholars and professionals across a range of subjects and
disciplines including sociology, social work, criminology, and
youth studies.
will be of interest to students,
scholars and professionals across a range of subjects and
disciplines including sociology, social work, criminology, and
youth studies.
