Curtis Loves Ranjit: heterosexual masculinities, schooling and pupils’ sexual cultures

ABSTRACT

This article explores the interaction between schooling processes and boys’ entry into adolescent and early adult forms of heterosexuality in the transition between primary and secondary schooling. It argues that sexualities are produced at a dynamic interface between historically available discursive positions, wider social relations, the immediate social environment and unconscious processes, and draws out some provisional implications of this analysis for sex education.