This comprehensive resource equips emerging and experienced sexuality
educators with contemporary frameworks for trauma-informed, equitable, and
anti-oppressive education.
It provides foundational principles for development and delivery, emphasizing
inclusivity, accessibility, and intersectionality. Editors Malone, Gilbert, Dukes,
and Fonte curate chapters by leading voices on topics such as historical
perspectives, values, emotional intelligence, professional humility, reproductive
justice, neurodivergence, sex work, kink, childhood and adolescent sexualities,
faith-based education, social media, and entrepreneurship. Authors demonstrate
decolonization, trauma-informed care, and equity in practice.
With practical applications and reflective questions, this book is a vital guide
for creating and teaching impactful, inclusive sex education for diverse audiences.
This comprehensive resource equips emerging and experienced sexuality educators with contemporary frameworks for trauma-informed, equitable, and anti-oppressive education.
Preface Introduction Part 1: Informing our values and attitudes as
sexuality educators
1. The Great Pushback: Why Social Justice is CompSexEd
2.
From Values-Based to Values-Neutral: The Pedagogical Power of Transparency
3.
Centering Safety & Resilience through Trauma-Informed Approaches Part 2:
Critical Perspectives for Inclusive Sex Education
4. Embracing Profesional
Humility: Cultivating Dispositions and Reflective Practice in Sexuality
Education
5. Navigating the Emotional Landscape: Cultivating Emotional
Literacy in Sex Education Part 3: Key Information, Research and Continuous
Learning
6. Deconstructing Desirability: Sexual Racism in Focus
7.
Contemporary and Nuanced Approaches to Teaching Consent
8. Re-teaching
Contraception
9. Sexual Health is Mental Health: Shifting from a Sex Avoidant
Society into a Stigma-Free One
10. Childhood and Adolescent Sexualities
11.
[ Inter] Sex Ed
12. Blurring the Boundaries of Orientation
13. Decolonizing
the History of the Gender Binary: Understanding What the Gender Binary Is,
Where it Came From, How it Affects Us Today, and How it Destroyed My Chance
of Being a Princess
14. Redefining Intimacy: Expanding Relationship Design
Beyond Compulsory Heteronormativity and Monogamy
15. Breaking Barriers: Sex
Education Promoting Quality of Life for People with Physical Disability
16.
Sex Education for Neurodivergent Learners: Addressing Gaps, Misconceptions,
and Needs
17. Sex Education for People with IDD: Concrete Strategies for
Increasing Accessibility
18. Integrating Porn Literacy into Sex Education
19.
Hoes Need Help, Too: Navigating Stigma & Violence as Societal Barriers to Sex
Workers
20. Destigmatizing BDSM Through Education: Challenges, Mindset, and
Strategies Part 4: Skills & Considerations for Increasing Impact and
Inclusivity
21. Making Mistakes and Practicising Accountability
22.
Liberation-Centered Learning Spaces: Valuing Joy, Relationships, and
Power-Shifting
23. From Concept to Community: Ethical Practices in Event
Organization
24. Maximizing Sexual Health Education for Youth
25. Faith,
Fear, and Freedom: Redefining Sexuality in Religious Spaces Part 5:
Navigating the Business and Limitations of Sex Education
26. Be Sexcessful!
Navigating Sex Education Entrepreneurship
27. Sex Ed and Social Media
28. Sex
Ed and Working With The Media
Reece Malone, DHS, MPH is an award-winning sexuality educator, equity trainer, researcher, and therapist based in Winnipeg, Canada. Founder of Sexuality Consultants and Support Services Manitoba and Diversity Essentials, he teaches and informs policy on human rights, gender equity, and human sexuality. He co-edited An Intersectional Approach to Sex Therapy.
Tracie Q. Gilbert, PhD, is a sex ed consultant dedicated to socioemotional wellness for Black communities and racial justice in sex education. Formerly an assistant professor, she now focuses on curriculum writing and training. She authored Black & Sexy: A Framework of Racialized Sexuality.
Catherine Dukes, PhD, LCSW is an award-winning sex educator and sex therapist. Prior to founding her sex therapy and education group practice www.TheCenterCD.com, she led Planned Parenthood of Delawares education department, winning national awards. Her work also includes speaking at national conferences, publications and Bedroom Brainiacs online sex ed.
Justine Ang Fonte, M.Ed, MPH is a Filipina-American sex educator, consultant, and professor. Shes taught PreK-12 children and their caregivers for 15+ years. Her Audible Original is How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex, and she holds masters degrees from the University of Hawaii and Columbia University.
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