Henderson, Charlotte2016-04-272016-04-2720162016-04-27http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7202Human sexuality has been overrun with narratives that limit the possibilities of pleasure. Sex-positive workers have the potential to challenge the ways in which these limitations become embodied. In this research I explore narratives of sex education and youth, pleasure as prevention, and the medicalization of sexuality. I engage in collective biography as a way to identify how these narratives shape the way bodies and pleasure get taken up in specific places. Drawing from poststructural feminist theory I propose three ways of reconceptualizing bodies and pleasure as emergent sites of change and potential. Through an analysis of the experiences of sex-positive service workers in Canada, I consider what else, and for whom, bodies, pleasure, and sex education might look like.enAvailable to the World Wide Webcollective biographysex-positivesexualitypoststructuraliststoriessex-positive service workerspleasurebodiesrisksex educationmedicalization of sexualitypreventionbronwyn daviespossibilitylimit experiencebody without organsThesis