Sex Ed by Comics A Light Medium for Heavy Issues
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The document summarizes a comics-based sex education project in Finland called "The Crush" that aims to convey important messages about sexuality to young people. It discusses how the project was planned starting in 2015, involves an established comic artist, chooses topics from a youth sexuality Q&A service, and gets input and feedback from youth and organizations. The goal is to address topics not covered in official sex ed by using inclusive, accessible materials and showing diversity.
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Sex Ed by Comics A Light Medium for Heavy Issues
- 1. Specialist in sexuality and relationships – since 1969 Sex Ed by Comics A Light Medium for Heavy Issues Tommi Paalanen Philosopher, Ethicist Executive Director
- 2. The Crush
- 3. About the project Planning started in 2015 First 4 comics published in spring 2016 8 comics available Finnish, Swedish, English Also in plain Finnish Accompanied by sex ed pages online www.sexpo.fi/comics The Project ”Together”
- 4. Rationale To convey important messages about sexuality to young people Keywords Sexual rights, consent, diversity, sex positivity, imagination, options Methods Inclusive and accessible materials Print materials and website Cooperation with Autism Foundation Values and content
- 5. The Artist: Maria Björklund Established comic artist with many publications Ability to work with sexuality and queer themes Involved in the scripting together with Sexpo
- 7. Anal Sex
- 8. Group of teenagers Involved in choosing topics, scripting and commenting sex ed pages Topics Chosen from the FAQ in Sexpo’s youth sexuality Q&A web service Media Youth included in media activities and events Youth Involvement
- 9. Feedback from NGO’s and educators Deal with important topics that young people talk about Fill in gaps in official sex ed Feedback from youth Informative Thought provoking, challenging Feedback ”I hope that I could talk about these issues with someone, my parents just cannot deal with any of it...”
- 10. Boobs Online
- 11. Sex ed must openly address topics young people talk and think about Youth must be involved in planning and implementing sex ed programmes There are serious gaps and value compromises in official sex ed materials Diversity needs to be visible always What did we learn?
- 12. Thank you!