Sex, Ethics, and Young People

Sex, Ethics, and Young People explores how young people determine their expectations from a sexual relationship. Bringing together research and education on sexuality and sexual assault prevention, Carmody explains how the six week skill-based Sex & Ethics program, based in Australia and New Zealand, can provide a curriculum of sexual education, and the skills needed by educators to run the program successfully. Research conducted with men and women enrolled in the program demonstrate how a focus on the education of sexuality, sexual ethics, and violence prevention can have a lasting impact on young people developing ethical sexual relationships.

Moira Carmody is Professor of Sexualities and Genders Research at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

PART I: YOUNG PEOPLE, SEX, AND SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION
1. Thinking Critically About Sex, Pleasure, Danger and Education
2. Listening to Young People's Experiences of Sexuality
3. Negotiating Sex
4. More than Plumbing: Sexuality Education
5. Sexual Assault Prevention Education—An International Overview
PART II: EDUCATING ABOUT SEXUAL ETHICS
6. Why Sexual Ethics?
7. The Sex & Ethics Education Program
8. Sex & Ethics in the Lives of Young Women and Men
9. Becoming a Sex & Ethics Program Educator
10. Building Ethical Communities