The intricacies that negotiate human sexuality and sex-negativity customary in school-based sexuality education programs in the United States contribute to sex-negative notions that inform current models of sexuality education as heteronormative and cisnormative, which assumes all students are heterosexual and cisgender. This fact essentially…

Sexually objectifying messages about girls and women are common in U.S. popular culture. As a consequence of exposure to such messages, girls may develop "internalized sexualization," or internalization of the belief that sexual attractiveness to males is an important aspect of their identity. We hypothesized that internalized…

In order to assess preteen activities in a moderate sized community in Georgia, selected group of classroom teachers conducted a pilot study. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to approximately 1,000 fifth-grade children and the results are presented here. It was discovered that Blacks, more than Whites, and boys, more than girls,…