The long awaited guidance for the teaching of relationships, health, and sex education came out on 24th September 2020. The last such guidance came out in 2000: before both YouTube and YouPorn, so we’ve been waiting a long time.
Our relationship with ourselves is an incredibly important topic but I think it’s important that we get it right. We should avoid indivdualising well-being. We have to understand how our relationship with ourselves is produced from an assemblage of culture, relationships, rights, and power.
The Bulletin is a free resource for you to use with with young people. It’s a newsletter from my website for young people BISH: ‘a guide to sex, love, and you for over 14s’. As you can see it’s a combination of articles, activities, images, and games. Just do a back to back print and[…]
It can be difficult for practitioners to engage with young men around RSE (relationships and sex/sexuality education). This article considers why that might be and what we can do about it.
I was chatting with my sex educator mate Alice Hoyle about showing videos in RSE and here’s a summary of our thoughts on this. As you can see, we’re not huge fans of this approach, but we do have some top tips at the end.
We should stop exaggerating pregnancy risks in RSE. It has many unintended outcomes and it isn’t accurate. Just as it’s counter-productive to hype up the risks of STIs it’s also counter-productive to hype up the risks of pregnancy.
One area where RSE really sits in the context of the broader PSHE curriculum is in doing anti-oppression work. Inclusive RSE is a really important aspect of this, making sure that everyone feels visible in our materials and resources. It’s also important that we aren’t reproducing a one size fits all version of sex and[…]
RSE practitioners might be tempted to show graphic pictures of STIs. Here I’ll argue why this is a bad and counterproductive teaching method in relationships and sex education.
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