ERIC Number: EJ1386317
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-1468-1811
EISSN: EISSN-1472-0825
What Might Gay Anal Sex Teach Sexuality Education? Reading the Penetrated Male in Witi Ihimaera's "The Uncle's Story"
Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, v23 n3 p271-278 2023
When sexuality educators bother to think about gay anal sex, it is usually to consider, 'What can we -- or should we -- teach about it?' Rarely is the question asked, 'What might gay anal sex teach sexuality education?' Inspired by Kathleen Quinlivan's suggestion that we work together to 'create new possibilities for what else sexuality and relationships education could become', this paper explores the educative potential of the anally penetrated male. By engaging with the work of the Indigenous philosopher of education Carl Mika, while attending to a scene of gay anal sex in Witi Ihimaera's novel "The Uncle's Story" (2000), it seeks to expose notions of wellbeing -- commonly conceptualised within sexuality and relationships education in Aotearoa New Zealand as "hauora" -- to the destabilising metaphysical entities of darkness and nothingness, thereby opening sexuality education up to what Mika calls the '(il)logic of mystery'.
Descriptors: Sex Education, Homosexuality, Sexuality, Indigenous Knowledge, Educational Philosophy, Well Being, Foreign Countries
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Language: English
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