A master thesis from Aalborg University
Seksualundervisning
[Sex Education]
Forfatter(e)
Semester
4. semester
Uddannelse
Udgivelsesår
2022
Afleveret
2022-05-30
Antal sider
48 pages
Abstract
The following thesis makes the humble endeavor to propose a theoretical framework to underpin a sustainable pedagogical attitude, worthy of modern sex education (aimed at the general population, not exclusively for ground schoolers, etc.). The fundamental idea is that sexuality pertains to the same level of our being that grounds every human subject in a form of existential crisis. Sexuality, nonetheless, has a natural tendency to enter the scene quite early in our lives, when we propose to our seniors the question of where life comes from. Copulation, we learn, might bring babies into the world, but often it is enjoyed with quite another purpose. While we mostly enjoy pictures of cows and clapping our hands, something quite different can also be enjoyed, it seems, but for some reason, it’s awkward to talk about it. This negativity in language sets us on the path for realizing our desire, or the Other’s desire, (who knows?) and before we know it, we want to kiss someone. The Freudian tradition gives us a vocabulary to talk about all this, and let’s us examine the sexual unreality of the drive, desire and the libido, as ways to put into words and work with the paradoxical ways we humans grow up to enjoy our lives, or destroy them. The Lacanian theory of sexuation and desire is fundamental throughout the paper. First in the introduction where quite the multiplicity of terms are put on the table, before moving on to talk about personal and sexual boundaries and consent, where even more are introduced. The sexual is political, and the political is social, and perhaps if not the social is a bit sexual as well. To navigate in the ever more complex social reality and the peculiar uprise in right-wing morals, I employ the Lacano-Kantian ethics of desire, to set straight the problem of xenophobia with great emphasis on transphobia, which is a form of the former that is remarkably accepted today. Gender and sex might not be the same, but they’re not absolute different fields of interest either. The sexual find a reality in our gender and gender expression, just as it does in our sexual orientation. The pedagogical task in this relation, wiz. in our secular and “free” world, is to support a sexual individuation in this relation and grant our subjects a place for themselves, and their bodies, in the social.
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