ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the way students learn to be embodied sexual subjects via the sexual cultures of schooling. It seeks to explore the gendered sexual embodiment of students in two secondary schools by employing visual methods. Through a tangle of mundane daily practices, schools seek to deny and regulate student sexual embodiment, channelling it towards a future heterosexuality. The chapter argues that the relationship between bodies and schooling is not captured by existing explanations of the repressive way schools regulate and monitor student corporeality, for instance, through the teachings of the sexuality education curriculum or official regulations such as dress codes. Sexual identity and sexual meanings are produced at school beyond the curriculum and pedagogic practices, in ways that are habitually overlooked. After establishing a theorisation of the sexual body in relation to schooling, the chapter presents examples of sexual embodiment which illuminate how schooling regulatory practices attempt to constitute a student subject that is preferably 'non-sexual'.
