Informal sex education: sexual ethics in LGBTIQA+ community discourses in Switzerland.

Formal school-based sexuality education rarely engages with the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, inter, queer and asexual (LGBTIQA+) youth. This paper therefore focuses on sexuality education as reflected in peer-led LGBTIQA+ activist discourses from Switzerland. Discourse analysis was conducted on the ‘problematisation’ of anal sex between 2012 and 2023 in the question-and-answer section of the LGBTIQA+ youth magazine <italic>Milchbüechli</italic>. The analytical focus was informed by Foucault’s work, taking ‘techniques of the self’ as a point of departure. It aimed to uncover how people come to recognise themselves as subjects of desire in LGBTIQA+ discourses. The results show that peer-led LGBTIQA+ discourses overcome some of the limitations of more formal kinds of sexuality education, for example, through their focus on pleasure or the deconstruction of phallocentric thinking. However, the discourses also fail to consider the sexual body as relational and therefore fail to articulate sexual ethics that are grounded beyond notions of personal autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]