What does it mean to be 'porn literate': perspectives of young people, parents and teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Porn literacy education is a pedagogical strategy responding to youth engagement with pornography through digital media. The approach is intended to increase young people's knowledge and awareness regarding the portrayal of sexuality in Internet pornography. However, what being 'porn literate' entails, and what a porn literacy education curricula should therefore include, is not a settled matter. Recognising the importance of end-user perspectives, 24 semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents, teachers and young people in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and analysed via critical, constructionist thematic analysis. Participants drew on a developmentalist discourse and a discourse of harm to construct porn literacy education as a way to inoculate young people against harmful effects, distortions of reality, and unhealthy messages. In addition to this dominant construction of porn literacy education, we identified talk that to some extent resisted these dominant discourses. Building on these instances of resistance, and asset-based constructions of youth based on their agency and capability, we point to an ethical sexual citizenship pedagogy as an alternative approach to porn literacy education.

Anent the theoretical justification of a sex doula program.

The Human Condition is neither a well-defined nor well-described concept-nevertheless, it is generally agreed that human sexuality is a fundamental and constituent part of it. For most able-bodied persons, accessing and expressing one's sexuality is a (relatively) trouble-free process. However, many disabled persons experience difficulty in accessing their sexuality, while others experience such significant barriers that they are often precluded from sexual citizenship altogether. Recognising the barriers to the sexual citizenship of disabled persons, the concept of a Welfare-Funded Sex Doula Program has been advanced - a program specifically aimed at meeting the various (and often complex) sexual needs of disabled people. Below we show how that program can be justified within at least two different moral frameworks, the capabilities approach and liberal utilitarianism, and consider and repudiate arguments against it.

'They Talked Completely about Straight Couples Only': Schooling, Sexual Violence and Sexual and Gender Minority Youth.

Scholarly conversations regarding sexual violence and sexuality education typically emphasise cisgender and heterosexual experiences, leaving sexual and gender minority young people's voices unheard. This happens despite adolescence being a crucial period for the onset of sexual violence, with sexual and gender minority youth reporting elevated levels of victimisation. Moreover, the preponderance of research focusing on victimisation suggests notable gaps in our understanding of sexual violence perpetration. This study examined contextual factors shaping sexual violence victimisation and perpetration among sexual and gender minority youth, with school playing a key role. Based on qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with 50 young people aged 14-26 years who self-reported sexual violence perpetration in the Growing Up with Media survey, the analysis demonstrates how schooling's 'hidden curriculum' leaves sexual and gender minority youth ill-equipped to navigate the world of sexuality. Formal sexuality education remains heteronormative and gender-segregated, resulting in incomplete understandings of sexual violence. At the informal level, gendered double standards and peer norms reinforce the second-class sexual citizenship of sexual and gender minority youth. Our findings suggest that schools may be complicit in sexual violence victimisation and perpetration by sending limited and mixed messages regarding gender and sexuality. Research and policy implications are discussed.

LGBTQI+ Healthcare (in)Equalities in Portugal: What Can We Learn from Asexuality?

The main purpose of this article is to analyse how healthcare providers in Portugal perceive asexuality. To do so, the author makes use of qualitative data from both the CILIA LGBTQI+ Lives project and The Asexual Revolution doctoral research on asexuality in Portugal, namely, a focus group conducted with healthcare providers, drawing from their assessment of interview excerpts with people identifying as asexual. The data were explored according to thematic analysis and revealed three major tendencies: (1) old tropes at the doctor's office; (2) narratives of willingness to learn about the subject; and (3) constructive and encouraging views of asexuality. From this analysis, valuable lessons can be drawn concerning the respect for gender and sexual diversity. The author argues that both formal and informal learning play an important role in building cultural competence among healthcare providers. This could be achieved both by introducing sexual and gender diversity in curricula in HE and through media exposure on these subjects. Overall, it will lead to building knowledge and empathy about marginalised groups, and will help fight inequalities of LGBTQI+ people in healthcare. As such, LGTBQI+ activism that puts the topics of asexuality and LGBTQI+ in the media agenda, is a powerful strategy. Hence, because healthcare providers show willingness to learn, the media becomes a source for learning about asexual and LGTBQI+ experiences, which they can incorporate in their medical practice.

Making epistemic citizens: Young people and the search for reliable and credible sexual health information.

The 21st century has seen the proliferation of technologies and sources of information on issues of all kinds, including sexuality. Amid debates about the role of social media and the internet in mediating sexuality, questions about credible, reliable and objective sources of information have also arisen, particularly in relation to young people's knowledge-seeking. Drawing on theorisations of sexual citizenship, Foucault's notion of the 'episteme', and the work of science and technology studies scholar John Law, this article examines a 'collateral reality' produced by contemporary demands on young people to source, assess and act on sexual health information. Using interviews with 37 young people living in Australia, the analysis identifies a range of approaches to sexual health-seeking practices, key dynamics in the construction of reliability and fact, and the extent and nature of the accommodations young people report making to navigate incomplete and unreliable information. With the contemporary self increasingly framed through the ability to discern truth from falsehood, reality from fake news, these demands and choices have significant implications for qualification as the proper modern citizen. Accommodating information weaknesses and gaps in sexual health information, we argue, produces what we call contemporary 'epistemic citizens'; young people explicitly aware of the limits of official knowledges about sex and sexualities, and of the expectation that individual citizens must either content themselves with officially constituted sexual selves or else seek and enact marginal or unofficial alternatives using sources generally denigrated as unreliable. As we will conclude, current forms of sexual health information and related calls for youth literacy operate as a mechanism for generating a specific modern form of epistemic citizenship. Future sexuality education might consider ways to support even more literate, sophisticated epistemic citizens relieved of the responsibility to piece the truth together on their own, and who in turn feel more included.

It's in Me to Give: Canadian Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Men's Willingness to Donate Blood If Eligible Despite Feelings of Policy Discrimination.

Blood donation policies governing men who have sex with men have shifted significantly over time in Canada-from an initial lifetime ban in the wake of the AIDS crisis to successive phases of time-based deferment requiring periods of sexual abstinence (5 years to 1 year to 3 months). We interviewed 39 HIV-negative gay, bisexual, queer, and other sexual minority men (GBM) in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal to understand their willingness to donate blood if eligible. Transcripts were coded following inductive thematic analysis. We found interrelated and competing expressions of biological and sexual citizenship. Most participants said they were "safe"/"low risk" and "willing" donors and would gain satisfaction and civic pride from donation. Conversely, a smaller group neither prioritized the collectivizing biological citizenship goals associated with expanding blood donation access nor saw this as part of sexual citizenship priorities. Considerable repair work is required by Canada's blood operators to build trust with diverse GBM communities.

The Politics of Sexual Citizenship: Negotiating Acts of Citizenship Among Non-Heterosexuals in Hong Kong.

The notion of sexual citizenship has been developed over the past two decades, and its discussion has been expanded to other regions. This article investigates the claiming of rights by non-heterosexuals in Hong Kong to achieve two objectives: to articulate the importance of the rights claiming process, particularly regarding how non-heterosexuals are being transformed to become claimants through rights claims, and to extend the notion of sexual citizenship in East Asia, particularly in the Hong Kong context. The findings show four distinctive characteristics of sexual citizenship in Hong Kong. Non-heterosexuals are found to have faced different struggles and barriers before or during the process of claiming rights, including restricted welfare rights access in various social institutions. Furthermore, the development of sexual citizenship in the Hong Kong local context is found to be limited.

Rethinking Sexual Citizenship.

Over the last two decades sexuality has emerged as a key theme in debates about citizenship, leading to the development of the concept of sexual citizenship. This article reviews this literature and identifies four main areas of critical framing: work that contests the significance of sexuality to citizenship; critiques that focus on the possibilities and limitations of mobilising the language of citizenship in sexual politics; analyses of sexual citizenship in relation to nationalisms and border making; and literature that critically examines western constructions of sexuality and sexual politics underpinning understandings of sexual citizenship. In order to progress the field theoretically, the article seeks to extend critiques of sexual citizenship focusing on two key aspects of its construction: the sexual citizen-subject and spaces of sexual citizenship. It argues for a critical rethink that encompasses a de-centring of a 'western-centric' focus in order to advance understandings of how sexual citizenship operates both in the Global North and South.

"There Is Nothing Like a Family": Discourses on Families of Choice in Poland.

In this article we showed how the notion of heteronormative citizenship embedded in the Polish Constitution was (re)produced in the public sphere, and how heteronormativity as an ideal was slowly undermined by the emergence of new narratives on LGBT families. We did so by first conducting a critical reading of the Polish Constitution, public opinion polls, national censuses, and so forth. Then we presented the results of a discourse analysis on families of choice in Poland from crucial public debates of the last decade. Through this we identified the main public strategies of silencing and excluding, its dynamics, main actors, possible changes, and shifts over time. The results of the research showed the change that occurred in the public discourse on LGBT families in the last decades in Poland moving from defining family in very conservative and traditional terms at the beginning of the 2000s to a more open definition of family in 2010-2011. However, they also demonstrate some undesired alliances among supporters and opponents of same-sex partnership and possible dangers of some strategies used by LGBT activists.

Citizenship, human rights, and dementia: Towards a new embodied relational ethic of sexuality.

Sexual citizenship and sexual rights scholarship have made important contributions to broadening citizenship and more fully accommodating rights related to sexuality. However, this scholarship has concentrated primarily on the sexuality and intimacy-related needs of younger people and those who are not cognitively impaired. Consequently, it has inadvertently served to marginalize persons living with dementia who reside in long-term residential care settings. We argue that supporting sexual rights for persons with dementia requires a particular human rights ontology for citizenship-one that recognizes that corporeality is a fundamental source of self-expression, interdependence, and reciprocal engagement. This is an ontology that underpins our model of relational citizenship and that grounds our articulation of an ethic of embodied relational sexuality. In our view, this ethic offers important direction for the development of policy, legislation, and clinical guidelines to support sexual rights for persons with dementia in long-term residential care.

The paradox of evil/homosexuality.

In this article, I analyze "personal experience stories around the homosexual" that entered into the parliamentary debates on the Sexual Offences Act in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s and shaped understandings of sexual citizenship in particular ways. Specific attention is paid to the effects of political storytelling involved in the making of British sexual citizens. I explore how the paradoxical figure of the evil homosexual emerges and how politicians, in telling stories of the evil homosexuality, police the border that can effectively separate sexual outsiders from sexual citizens. I conclude with an analysis of these stories, and how their telling is closely linked to the postwar social welfare thinking in Britain.

Cidadania sexual sob suspeita: uma meditação sobre as fundações homonormativas e neo-liberais de uma cidadania de "consolação" / Sexual citizenship under suspicion: a meditation on the homonormative and neoliberal foundations of a "consolation" citizenship

Este artigo revisita criticamente as noções de cidadania sexual, procedendo a uma reflexão sobre as suas fundações homonormativas - decorrentes da heteronormatividade - e neo-liberais - decorrentes do atual estado da formação social capitalista. Recorremos à análise de estatísticas sobre o casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo em Portugal e à análise de discurso de uma entrevista, usada como estudo de caso, para evidenciar o modo como uma economia política heterossexual sob a capa da homonormatividade emerge para estruturar a cidadania sexual e como esta é igualmente, por via da sua associação ao consumo se transforma apenas numa cidadania de consolação, geradora de hierarquias dentro da população LGBT entre quem tem recursos para aceder aos bens de consumo e quem não pode efetuar esse acesso. Discutimos na conclusão, o modo como esta cidadania sexual emerge como pharmakon, mantendo-se conceptualmente ambivalente.

This article critically revisits the notions of sexual citizenship, while analysing its homonormative and neoliberal foundations - effect of heteronormativity and of capitalist social formation. Using an analysis of the statistics of same sex marriage in Portugal and a discourse analysis to one interview, used as a case study, evidence is provided to illustrate how a heterosexual political economy using homonormativity emerges to structure sexual citizenship. Also sexual citizenship transformed in a mode of consumption turns out to be a consolation citizenship that generates hierarchies within the LGBTIQ population between the ones that can afford that access to commodities and the ones that are not able to do so. In the conclusion, we show that sexual citizenship is an ambivalent concept, discussing it as a pharmakon.

Construcción de rutinas espaciales y sus efectos en las dinámicas de inclusión-exclusión del activismo LGBT en Córdoba, Argentina / Construção de rotinas espaciais e seus efeitos nas dinâmicas de inclusão-exclusão do ativismo LGTB em Córdoba, Argentina / Spatial routines and inclusion/exclusion dynamics among LGBT activists in Córdoba, Argentina

El presente artículo explora la relación entre espacialidad y acción política al interior del movimiento LGTB de Córdoba, Argentina. Se focaliza en la construcción de rutinas espaciales como determinante de la estratificación social en el activismo LGTB. Considerando la trayectoria de los diversos grupos en la militancia -activistas históricos vs. recientes- se indagan usos diferenciales del espacio y sus representaciones, así como sus efectos sobre las dinámicas de inclusión-exclusión en una acción política concreta: la primera marcha local del Orgullo y la Diversidad realizada en noviembre de 2009. Los datos generados mediante registro de observaciones de campo y entrevistas revelan que la emergencia de nuevos grupos de activistas a finales de la presente década implicó un desplazamiento de las rutinas espaciales desde la periferia al centro de la ciudad. Este proceso conlleva dinámicas de inclusión-exclusión que determinan la estructura social del activismo, condicionando el objetivo de lograr una convocatoria integrada por un amplio espectro social de participantes.

O presente artigo explora a relação entre espacialidade e ação política no interior do movimento LGTB de Córdoba, Argentina. Focaliza-se na construção de rotinas espaciais como determinante da estratificação social no ativismo LGTB. Considerando a trajetória dos diversos grupos na militância - ativistas históricos vs. recentes - indagam-se usos diferenciais do espaço e suas representações, assim como seus efeitos sobre as dinâmicas de inclusão-exclusão em uma ação política concreta: a primeira marcha local do orgulho e da diversidade realizada em novembro de 2009. Os dados gerados mediante registro de observações de campo e entrevistas revelam que a emergência de novos grupos de ativistas, nos finais da presente década, implicou um deslocamento das rotinas espaciais da periferia para o centro da cidade. Esse processo acarreta dinâmicas de inclusão-exclusão que determinam a estrutura social do ativismo, condicionando o objetivo de se conseguir uma convocatória integrada por um amplo espectro social de participantes.

In this paper we explore the relations between social space and political action, as present in the case of the LGTB movement in the province capital of Córdoba, Argentina. We focus on the construction of spatial routines as a determinant of social stratification among LGTB activists. By looking at the activist track of different groups, characterized as 'historical vs. recent', we analyze different uses and representations of space, and their effects on the inclusion-exclusion dynamics at play in a concrete instance political action: the first local "Pride and Sexual Diversity March", in November, 2009. Field observation records and interviews with activists show how the emergence of new activist groups in the late 1990's produced a displacement of spatial routines from the periphery to the downtown area. This process generated a dynamics of inclusion/exclusion which reproduces a social stratification of activism, compromising the goal of broadening the social spectrum of participants.