ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on sexuality education through the window of the federally funded AOUM movement. The sexual subjectivity of young women remains our focus in this discussion because their bodies bear the consequences of limited sexuality education and are the site where progressive educational and health policies can have significant effect. In this essay, the authors seek to understand how laws, public policies, and institutions today both nourish and threaten young women’s sense of economic, social, and sexual possibility. The chapter examines various public contexts in which thick desire grows or is extinguished public education, juvenile justice, and sexuality policies. People in this group argue that healthy sex lives are developed through comprehensive sexuality education, trusting relationships with adults and peers, and sufficient emotional and medical support in the form of contraceptives, access to abortion and child care, and protection against STDs.
