ABSTRACT
The aforementioned theories of human sexuality have traditional viewpoints that have impressed on generations rigid gender and identity stereotypes, which has led to disempowering feelings of shame and negative reactions related to budding teen sexuality. The tension in sexuality education has been ideological, which sets up sexuality education as a contentious topic. Sexual maturation is a process that critical feminist and queer theorists have acknowledged and emphasized as one that should be nurtured and facilitated as a course of organic human development. Research on child and adolescent sexuality has been historically under-studied due to cultural and political barriers, and the research that is available has tended to focus on the individual rather than the culture and social condition in which the individual resides. Women often suffer from powerlessness with respect to existing barriers to educational and economic equity, which can indirectly serve as critical factors in the production of sexual inequalities.
