Queer youth experiences with abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education: "Can't get married so where does that leave me?"
Abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education has received increasing attention vis-a-vis policy, funding, and research. Despite large sums of federal money to develop, implement, and to some extent, assess abstinence-only education, virtually no studies have looked to assess the experiences of...
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| description | Abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education has received increasing attention vis-a-vis policy, funding, and research. Despite large sums of federal money to develop, implement, and to some extent, assess abstinence-only education, virtually no studies have looked to assess the experiences of such a curriculum for gay and bisexual male youth. This qualitative study explores narratives from semi-structured interviews of eight self-identified gay and bisexual males who received an abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education. Their voices lend empirical evidence to the often cited but undocumented negative gay and bisexual male youth experiences with an abstinence-only sexuality education. These young men recount stories of silence, risk, hostility, and resiliency. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-175762017-09-13T15:45:17Z Queer youth experiences with abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education: "Can't get married so where does that leave me?" Fisher, Christopher Abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education has received increasing attention vis-a-vis policy, funding, and research. Despite large sums of federal money to develop, implement, and to some extent, assess abstinence-only education, virtually no studies have looked to assess the experiences of such a curriculum for gay and bisexual male youth. This qualitative study explores narratives from semi-structured interviews of eight self-identified gay and bisexual males who received an abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education. Their voices lend empirical evidence to the often cited but undocumented negative gay and bisexual male youth experiences with an abstinence-only sexuality education. These young men recount stories of silence, risk, hostility, and resiliency. 2009 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17576 10.1080/19361650802396775 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Fisher, Christopher Queer youth experiences with abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education: "Can't get married so where does that leave me?" |
| title | Queer youth experiences with abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education: "Can't get married so where does that leave me?" |
| title_full | Queer youth experiences with abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education: "Can't get married so where does that leave me?" |
| title_fullStr | Queer youth experiences with abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education: "Can't get married so where does that leave me?" |
| title_full_unstemmed | Queer youth experiences with abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education: "Can't get married so where does that leave me?" |
| title_short | Queer youth experiences with abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education: "Can't get married so where does that leave me?" |
| title_sort | queer youth experiences with abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education: "can't get married so where does that leave me?" |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17576 |