Bodies and sexualities in the first version of Comprehensive Sex Education

Abstract

This article discusses the first version of the Comprehensive Sex Education curriculum for the city of Buenos Aires. The aim is to analyze the discursive and power mechanisms that have been involved in its definition as a specific curricular domain. Specifically, it examines the way in which infantile and female bodies and sexualities were defined as objects of knowledge and intervention in the documents published in 2007 by the City of Buenos Aires after the passage of the Act of Comprehensive Sex Education. It is highlighted the normalizing criteria from which was delimited the intelligibility, on the one hand, of infantile body and sexuality as a domain of purity, innocence and incompleteness. And, on the other hand, of female body and sexuality as a biologized domain, subject to a reproductive and heterosexual destination.