title: Sensual sexuality education with young parenting women.
abstract: Comprehensive sexuality education curricula that incorporate sex positive and integrated approaches go beyond a presentation of facts and strategies for prevention to emphasize the promotion of sexual subjectivity and wellbeing. A pilot sensual sexuality education program was planned, implemented and informally evaluated with young parenting women at an alternative General Educational Development test preparation center. The program prioritized a sex positive framework, including topics such as pleasure, desire and sexual entitlement, and invited participants to explore sexuality through a multisensory orientation. Participants took part in small group discussions and activities that engaged their senses through arts-based methods. Grounded in holism, program topics were integrated with a focus on participants' everyday experiences. The pilot curriculum serves as a promising program for re-positioning young parenting women as sexual subjects, which is key to the promotion of health and wellbeing.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA agubrium@schoolph.umass.edu.
authors.forename: Aline C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Gubrium
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
authors.forename: Miriam B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Shafer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012736:Sex Education / Q000379:methods*; D019529:Sexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D015406:Single Parent