Sexuality Education and Media

Media is a fundamental issue of sexuality education in this new media era. However, we will get the only simple result of merely asking “how will we protect teenagers from bad influence by media?” if we don’t set a perspective on the relationship between media and adolescents. And it is related to the regulatory policies as a tool of eliminating toxic environment. This regulation approach does not fit teenagers in Korea at all. They are not only the passive consumers but the producers of these various media products. This paper insists that we need to address a question ahead of all on the relation between media, the sex images that media creates, and teenagers. The paper aims to place this issue in the context of sexuality education in Korea. This article suggests that the regulatory media education should be changed into the training on feminist media literacy. Education on feminist media literacy will help to have a perspective for self-examine and then teenagers grow into the consumer, producer, and circulator of alternative media images.