‘We didn't cover that at school’: education against pleasure or education for pleasure?

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‘Where do babies come from?’ Barriers to early sexuality communication between parents and young children (2013, background): “…of shame and guilt if and when one wishes to practise it during teenage years; such negative feelings are generally in direct conflict with any pleasurable feelings being experienced as well as possible comfort with bodies and sexual partners (Coleman 2003; Hogarth and Ingham 2009; Ingham 2005).”
Why Pleasure Matters: Its Global Relevance for Sexual Health, Sexual Rights and Wellbeing (2019, background): “…education of positive aspects of sexuality such as pleasure is infrequent (Allen & Carmody, 2012; Cameron-Lewis, 2016; Cameron-Lewis & Allen, 2013; Ingham, 2005), and adverse outcomes—with emphasis on fear, danger, disease, and death associated with sexual behavior— remain the focus of much…”
Comprehensive Sexuality Education as a Means of Promoting Sexual Health (2008, result): “Though there is still a need for more research on the linkages between health outcomes and pleasure, existing evidence supports a positive approach to sexuality and the acceptance of young people as sexual beings in their own right ( Feijoo, 2001 ; Haberland, 2006 ; Ingham, 2005 ; Schalet, 2004 ;”