Thousands of women have come forward with stories of sexual harassment at private school parties in a petition recently launched by Chanel Contos calling for better sex education in schools, especially when teaching more about consent during sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following the March 4 Justice protest demanding better treatment of women in the workplace, in schools, and society, several male students from Melbourne’s private Wesley College came forward. Disparaging\u00a0comments about\u00a0women<\/strong>\u00a0on the bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWesley principal Nick Evans called the behavior unacceptable and said ABC pornography is a source of sex education for many students, and \u201cmust be an important part of these conversations.\u201d or discussions\u201d in addressing violence against women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sex education would be better if it taught\u00a0respect<\/strong>\u00a0and could help counteract what young people learn from pornography.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOur studies of teaching sex education show that some teachers worry about parental fears, negative media, and political hysteria.\u00a0Unfortunately, the teachers we spoke with considered teaching sexual education \u201crisky.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a result, the schools and teachers in our study cut content, omitted some materials, and did not talk about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pornography and sex education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nOne of the reasons why young people use pornography is to satisfy their sexual curiosity.\u00a0\u00a0Much of\u00a0mainstream\u00a0pornography features\u00a0misogyny and problematic sexual behavior<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAuthor and feminist Andrea Dworkin made the connection between pornography and misogyny in the 1970s. Other feminist studies have continued to demonstrate this connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most recently, sex educator Maree Crabbe wrote that porn\u00a0conveys a series of deeply problematic messages \u2013 about sex\u2026 about sex, gender, power, aggression, the body, Sexual pleasure, consent, and race.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nShe writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Porn is an incredibly powerful communication tool. Porn can influence what we like and want without us even realizing it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nSchool sex program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nBetween 2016 and 2017, one of the authors conducted in-depth interviews with nine teachers in nine Victorian government schools to explore how students were taught skills to develop positive relationships. Extreme and healthy. She observed the teaching of sex education and spoke with five principals about the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teachers say that\u00a0sex is not discussed at home with parents<\/strong>.\u00a0Instead, students are intentionally seeking information about sex from pornography.\u00a0This corresponds with Our Watch’s finding that by age 13, almost 50% of boys have viewed pornography.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTeachers expressed concern about students’ dependence on pornography. They talk about students believing that what they see is \u201cthe way you should act\u201d or \u201cthe way you have sex.\u201d This includes negotiations where consensus is problematic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn pornography, you are seeing what young people perceive as consensual,\u201d said one teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Respectful relationships<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0a program that forms part of sex education in some schools.\u00a0It has the potential to counteract the misogyny of mainstream pornography.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRespectful Relationships<\/strong>\u00a0is a collection of evidence-based resources that promote the development and maintenance of healthy relationships of all kinds.\u00a0These resources are for use inside and outside of sex education classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAll Victorian government schools are required to deliver the Respectful Relationships<\/strong>\u00a0curriculum\u00a0as recommended by the Family Violence Royal Commission.\u00a0Although other schools in Australia can use this curriculum resource.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSpecifically, there is a unit designed to \u201c\u00a0address the connections between sexuality, pornography, gender, and respectful relationships<\/strong>\u00a0.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nOne teacher said about the program:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Girls can feel\u00a0empowered<\/strong>\u00a0by the program [\u2026] They can look at their relationship and see if it is a respectful relationship or not.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe teachers we spoke to wanted this curriculum.\u00a0They have been well-trained to do so.\u00a0They know their students and this curriculum is resistant to what students learn outside of the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhile one teacher spoke explicitly about how the curriculum empowers girls, another described it as filling a knowledge gap that prevents students from seeking out bad information through alternative sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this teacher,\u00a0Respectful Relationships<\/strong>\u00a0supported students in talking to her when they were considering having sex for the first time or when they were experiencing harmful sexual behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSo what’s the problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis curriculum provides tools for students to navigate gender and sexuality, and for teachers to challenge and even challenge problematic ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the public debate over Safe Schools \u2013 a program aimed at helping schools promote a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment for students including LGBTI students<\/em> \u2013 is at the forefront of their thinking, the Teachers and principals detailed the many ways they sought to reduce parental fears and the negative media associated with sex education.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOne teacher said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is an overwhelming topic [\u2026] it can scare people and they might think, ‘Oh my God, I have a 7th or 12th grade girl at that school.’<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nTeachers described a moderated curriculum to avoid \u201criskier\u201d content such as homosexuality and female pleasure. They also removed the words \u201cgender\u201d and \u201csexuality\u201d from program titles, and parents had limited knowledge about the programs they offered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During classroom observations, the author witnessed teachers hesitant to engage with important but complex topics such as consent and same-sex intimacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Respectful Relationships<\/strong>\u00a0curriculum\u00a0has the potential to counter the misogyny of pornography.\u00a0By giving teachers the confidence, support, and opportunity to do the job they were hired for, we will likely see meaningful change.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSource: <\/p>\n\n\n\n\nhttps:\/\/gendertalkviet.blogspot.com\/2021\/07\/sexuality-education-can-coun\u2026\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\nhttps:\/\/theconversation.com\/sexuality-education-can-counter-what-kids-learn-from-porn-but-some-teachers-fear-backlash-when-tackling-risky-topics-158209\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This article is republished from\u00a0The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0under a Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 1, 2021 Author:\u00a0Sharon O’Mara\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ph.D. Candidate in Crime, Justice, and Legal Studies, La Trobe University Kirsty Duncanson\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice, and Legal Studies, La Trobe University Translator:\u00a0Doan Thi Ngoc\u00a0– Teacher, Hoa Sen University (HSU) Thousands of women have come forward with stories of sexual harassment at private school parties in a petition recently launched by Chanel Contos calling for better sex education in schools, especially when teaching more about consent during sex. Following the March 4 Justice protest demanding better treatment of women in the workplace, in schools, and society, several male students from Melbourne’s private Wesley College came…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2686,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-chia-se-chuyen-mon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2878,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/2878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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