Slag Shaming in a Critical Context: Understanding Sexual Ethics in School
A public panic about sexualisation assumes the next generation is in moral crisis, however, new research on young peoples’ everyday experiences, tells a different story. Dr Sarah Winkler Reid, a social anthropologist at the University of Bristol, found that ethical judgement about sex is a common subject in the playground, when she conducted ethnographic fieldwork with 15 to 16 year olds in school. “The young people I encountered had really clear ideas about what’s right and wrong when it comes to sex. They definitely weren’t the passive sponges adults often imagine.” School is a