Abstract
One of the greatest concerns about children’s sexuality is the ways in which they learn about sex; such concerns also draw upon arguments that children’s experiences with pornographic content create a distorted idea about sex, gender relations, and the female body. In this chapter, I examine how young people understand the ways in which sexuality and sex are constructed in mainstream news media. Evidence I gathered with a research project indicates that news media provide particular constructions of sexuality embedded in certain discursive frameworks. I argue that children use these ready-made discursive frameworks in the process of developing a set of literacies through which they both decide whether they will interpret a representation as sexual and they also construct their personal sexual narratives.
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Chronaki, D. (2017). What Does the News Teach Young People About Sex?. In: Allen, L., Rasmussen, M.L. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40033-8_20
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