Sexuality education in Europe and the intersectional sexualities of Brazil

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the European policy on sexuality education based on the Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe and to make brief considerations about its adequacy to the Brazilian reality under the formal criteria, related to the Brazilian educational laws; and material, related to its ability to represent an intersectional notion of sexuality experienced in the Global South of colonial origins. The investigation used a dialectical method, based on exploratory methodology, and found that the European model suggests a comprehensive approach to sexuality that goes beyond issues of sexual and reproductive health and proposes the questioning of the norms and power relations that constitute social, political, culturally and historically gender and sexuality. However, for an implementation in post-colonial Brazil, it is necessary to observe an even broader notion, incorporating the relationship of sexuality with other social markers, such as race and class.