2013/02/08 by Adam J. Greteman · 9 citations
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Gender Roles and Identity Studies #Gender, Feminism, and Media #Foucault, Power, and Ethics #Phenomenon #Scholarship #Sex education #Psychology #Task (project management) #Pedagogy #Sociology #Gender studies #Epistemology #Human sexuality
paper · doi:10.1080/14681811.2012.760154
published in Sex Education 13(sup1), S20-S31 (Taylor & Francis)
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In this paper, the author moves to think through the practice of barebacking to investigate the ways in which sex education fashions subjects and vice versa. Using recent scholarship and the emergence of barebacking, the author thinks through the discourses on this sexual culture and how doing so might allow sex education to move beyond merely thinking about sex to a more risky version of sex education. The author's intentions are to counter-intuitively use the figure of the ‘barebacker’ as a lifestyle for thinking through sex education in the twenty-first century to explore potential pedagogical insights where pedagogy is viewed not simply as methods of teaching or the art of teaching but as the process of fashioning the self through relationships with knowledge, the self and other. The phenomenon of the barebacker allows for an exploration of possible ways of coming into presence. This task requires grappling with the risks inherent in sex education to engage how subjects emerge in relationship to other subjects and how sex education edits out particular types of sexual subjects.