Sex education paradigms: dialogues with psychoanalysis

Abstract

The sex education has been crossed by different models that compose perspectives surrounding gender. From those, the biological and hygienist model, that naturalizes the social differences between genders, and the queer model, that  tries to question essentialisms taking a non-normativy as basis, can be highlighted. The distinction between penis and phallus proposed by psychoanalysis can help this last perception, in the sense that it focuses in an imaginary question instead of the primacy of the genital organs. That way, this work of qualitative delimitation, explorative-descriptive, tries to explore which has been the approaches about gender in the formal school sex education through a literature review and the categorization of identified phrases in the selected articles using the eight models proposed by Furlani. Thus, it was noticed that there is still a biological and hygienist model hegemony, while a queer model still doesn’t appear in the school educational practices.