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Review

‘Sex and History’: Talking Sex with Objects from the Past

Kate Fisher  1 , Jen Grove  1 , Rebecca Langlands  2
Louisa Allen, Mary Lou Rasmussen
, editors.
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education. London (UK): Palgrave Macmillan; 2016 Nov 9. Chapter 2.
Wellcome Trust–Funded Monographs and Book Chapters.
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Review

‘Sex and History’: Talking Sex with Objects from the Past

Kate Fisher et al.

Excerpt

Imagine taking a medieval chastity belt or a Roman phallic pendant into a classroom of 15-year-olds. What kinds of conversations would ensue? How might such conversations help achieve the goals of school-based sexuality education? How might such activities contribute to promoting healthy sexual development? These are the activities and questions driving research at the University of Exeter, UK. The Sex and History project uses intriguing, surprising, and often beautiful historical artefacts that either depict an aspect of sex or sexuality, or had a sexual significance or purpose in their original historical context, as a tool for generating open conversations with young people about sex.

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