ABSTRACT
However, one issue that throws significant doubt on the efficacy of governmentality (and perhaps the lack of attention it pays to subversive strategies of avoiding surveillance and discipline of sexual behaviour by young people) is the fact that in the case of the TPS there is no tangible evidence of any success in the UK. Teenage pregnancies have only been reduced by a small percentage, yet simultaneously other indicators of teenage sexual risk behaviour, such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs), suggest that the strategy is failing as the rates of STI infections amongst young people continue to rise (Nicoll et al. 1999). Yet, despite lack of evidence of success, the TPS is not being reconsidered or modified. We need to ask why this is the case.
