The SRE we have and the SRE we need
Feminist Fightback is conducting research about Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) and the effects of changing political structures on women’s reproductive services and SRE resources. This text is taken from a recent leaflet. It was clear from discussions of our experiences that provision was patchy — people got different amounts of SRE at different levels. All of us felt we were missing the same things: discussion of sexuality; relationships; non-reproductive, nonheterosexual sex; self-pleasure; and, in some cases, any discussion of sex outside marriage. The neglect of pleasure in SRE, or...