Sex and Functional Diversity

Generating praxis from the socio-educational field

Abstract

How can we define sexuality? And the functionally diverse people’s sexuality? Do socio-educational professionals also reproduce stereotypes regarding their sexuality? It is about time all functionally diverse bodies are shown as both desirable and desiring. We are talking about erotic and autoerotic, about desire, pleasure, corporal diversity… Let’s talk about it!

Put it all into words to make it visible and take people’s real necessities and interests, with or without functional diversity. A sex education that goes further than the prevention, STDs, unwanted pregnancies and talks about pleasure and relationships free of taboos, normalizing everyone’s sexuality. Sex education aims to defend human, sexual, and reproductive rights. A sex education that respects its diversity in all its 360º: genre identities and expressions, sexual orientations, diverse sexual and relational practices, body diversity… A sex education that is not exclusively focused on intercourse, genitals, or orgasms. A sex education that lets us understand and enjoy our sexuality privately or with whoever we freely and consensually choose. All in all, from the educational field we bail for a quality sex education where the person is the center, originating from an integral and genre perspective.