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Sex Education journal -- Special Issue
The media’s evolving role in sex education
Entertainment media have long been identified as having a key role to 
play in education about sex and relationships.
All too often in studies of sexual learning the media have been assessed 
for their potentially negative effects on young people. For example, 
studies have correlated consumption of particular media forms with early 
sexual intercourse or teenage pregnancy, while parents and schools have 
been seen as providing a positive corrective.
However empirical research shows that this simple binary is not always 
accurate: in some instances entertainment media may offer positive 
information and representations while school or parents often offer more 
moralizing or conservative perspectives.  For example, a young person 
growing up in a homophobic family may see happy queer characters in a 
sitcom; or young people attending a school that emphasizes young women’s 
role as gatekeepers and controllers of men’s sexuality may find helpful 
TV dramas that explore women’s active sexual agency.
This special issue of the journal Sex Education will engage with these 
and related concerns, pausing to take stock of where we are now, 
especially with respect to the positive role that old and newer forms of 
media can play in learning about sex.
Papers may focus on any aspect of the entertainment media, and on any 
aspect of healthy sexual development – including, but not limited to, 
open communication about sex, assertiveness, sexual agency, sexual 
identity, or an acceptance that sex can be pleasurable.
If you are not sure whether your article is appropriate for this special 
issue, please feel free to send an abstract in the first instance to 
(a.mckee /at/ qut.edu.au)
Peer review:
Articles for the special issue will be subject to normal peer review in 
line with the procedures of the journal.
Timeline:
You should submit your article for review by the 24th October 2014. You 
can find the journal’s instructions for authors at:
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=csed20&page=instructions#.Utent_27yf0
When you submit your article will be asked whether you are submitting 
for a special issue. Please use the pull-down menu to note that you are 
submitting your paper for the special issue The Media’s Evolving Role in 
Sex Education. Please also note in the manuscript of your article that 
you are submitting it for this special issue.
If you have any questions about the mechanics of submitting a paper for 
Sex Education you should find the answers in the guidelines for authors 
mentioned above.

More on the guest editors
Alan McKee is a Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty at 
Queensland University of Technology, and leads the ‘Promoting Healthy 
Sexual Development’ research group at QUT. He is particularly interested 
in the relationship between media consumption and healthy sexual 
development. He has published in the Journal of Sex Research, Archives 
of Sexual Behavior, International Journal of Sexual Health and Sex 
Education.  Contact: (a.mckee /at/ qut.edu.au).
Sara Bragg is a Senior Research Fellow in the Education Research Centre 
at the University of Brighton. She is co-author of many books, reports 
and articles on young people’s cultures including Young People, Sex and 
the Media (with David Buckingham, 2004); co-editor of Children and Young 
People’s Cultural Worlds (with Mary Jane Kehily, 2013) and of Rethinking 
Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media (with Buckingham and Kehily, 
2014). Contact: (s.bragg /at/ brighton.ac.uk).
Tristan Taormino is an award-winning writer, sex educator, speaker, 
filmmaker, and radio host. She is the editor of 25 anthologies, author 
of seven books, and co-editor of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of 
Producing Pleasure. As the head of Smart Ass Productions, she has 
directed and produced sixteen sex-ed films. Tristan’s work, writing and 
films are routinely used in college courses to explore the complex 
issues of relationship and sexual diversity, politics, and media.

Sara Bragg
(sarabragg /at/ yahoo.com)
01273 681166

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