title: [Presuppositions and orientations in sex education literature. Brief report of an observation].
abstract: This article publishes the result of a gallup done with 40 books and publications dealing with sexual education and representing styles and tendencies as diversified as possible. The aim consisted insearching the multisciplinary structure (physiology, psychology, sociology, ethics...) on which the authors rely explicitely for proposing pedagogic orientations. It appears from analyses that the educational aim is most often limited to an information giving the greatest importance to anatomophysiological factors of reproductive functions. A larger concept of sexuality including dimensions of body eroticism, on the one hand, and psychological, social and relational ethical factors, on the other hand, is rejected by some authors proning pedagogic "neutrality". These dimensions are used in an "engaged pedagogy" by other authors, but differently according to their view of "sexual liberalisation" or humanistic or christian sexual ethics. Critical considerations are added to the description of these various tendencies.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001290:Attitude; D001530:Belgium; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature; D008297:Male; D009014:Morals; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012736:Sex Education; D012725:Sexual Behavior
vernacular_title: Présupposés et orientations de la littérature d'éducation sexuelle. Bref rapport d'un sondage