Special Issue of the Journal of Sex Education just out

A Special Issue of the Journal of Sex Education (vol 15 (5) ) has just been published, edited by Sara Bragg from the Education Research Centre / School of Education, Alan McKee (University of Technology Sydney) and Tristan Taormino (independent scholar).  It focuses on Entertainment Media’s Evolving Role in Sex Education.

It features articles from authors around the world from different institutional, disciplinary and professional positions, using varied methodological approaches, and who range from well-established academics to those appearing in an academic journal for the first time.

It raises questions such as: What are young women doing online? New technologies, same old flirting? Can TV drama support peer-to-peer sex education? What do girls say about Rihanna’s dress sense? What’s the therapeutic potential of porn? How to play ‘bad sex’ media bingo? How might we teach young people about anal sex?

Contents

Editorial introduction: entertainment media’s evolving role in sex education by Alan McKee, Sara Bragg and Tristan Taormino

• Flirting, dating, and breaking up within new media environments by Joni Meenagh
• ‘Pervy role-play and such’: girls’ experiences of sexual messaging online by Silja Nielsen, Susanna Paasonen and Sanna Spisak
• Advice on life? Online fan forums as a space for peer-to-peer sex and relationships education by Maria-Jose Masanet and David Buckingham
• Popular culture and moral panics about ‘children at risk’: revisiting the sexualisation-of-young-girls debate by Liza Tsaliki
• Using sexually explicit material in a therapeutic context by Cyndi Darnell
• Sense about sex: media, sex advice, education and learning by Feona Attwood, Meg John Barker, Petra Boynton and Justin Hancock
• Use of sexuality-focused entertainment media in sex education by Ruth Neustifter, Markie L.C. Blumer, Jessica O’Reilly and Francisco Ramirez
• School of shock: film, television and anal education by Lauren Rosewarne