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ABSTRACT
Noting public concern about sexual exploitation, abuse and sexualisation, we argue that sex education in the UK needs revision. Choice is a feature of current sex education policy and, acknowledging that choice can be problematic, we defend its place in an approach to sex education premised on informed deliberation, relational autonomy, a particular view of personhood and moral literacy. We argue, however, that choice and the approach outlined must be located in the realities of young people’s lives.
Acknowledgement
The authors wish it to be known that each contributed equally to the writing of the paper.
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Notes
2. Simon Blake (Citation2014) of Brook, the UK’s largest young people’s sexual health charity. http://www.sexeducationforum.org.uk/media/17706/sreadvice.pdf.
3. And see Lumby and Albury (Citation2010) and Renold and Ringrose (Citation2011).
4. We are grateful to an anonymous reviewer for raising this point.
5. See, for example, the special volume of Gender and Education, 2012, on the sexualisation debates.
6. Rochdale was not an isolated case. The Jay Inquiry (Citation2014) suggests some 1400 children were abused in Rotherham.
7. The example could equally apply to a young man sending a picture. We do not assume heterosexuality and could apply to a couple of any sexuality.