Praten zonder blozen vertalingen van 'normale' seks in seksonderwijs voor ouders

The Netherlands is often considered a best practice of progressive sex education. In today’s Dutch ‘comprehensive approach’ to sexual health, parents and parenting play an important role. This paper offers an analysis of ethnographic material and a content analysis of teaching material of a parenting course designed to train parents for the sex education of their children. It shows how ‘sex talk’ or ‘talking about sex’ is presented as the solution of sexual problems. Moreover it illustrates how this ‘sex talk’ is presented as typically Dutch and not-speaking as un-Dutch and responsible for sexual deviance. This is translated to egalitarian, communicative and reflexive practice in which teachers perform egalitarian authority. The content and form of the practices are thus synchronized.