Rethinking young women's sex education: Sexual vulnerability and affective relations

This chapter challenges dichotomous neoliberal discourses with the purpose of offering an alternative approach for sex education that illuminates the need for young women to cope with intensified vulnerability while expressing their sexuality. It presents an Israeli case study of 'attacking' -a heterosexual practice performed in nightclubs for adolescents - to rethink how sex education addresses vulnerability. This study reveals how young women's affective responses become a resource for shaping their sexual expression in spaces of intensified vulnerability. By focusing on the affective aspects of vulnerability, this study moves beyond its association with passivity and victimhood to offer vulnerability-based educational principles.