Paslėptos terminologinės slinkties nuo lytinio švietimo iki visuminio lytiškumo / seksualumo ugdymo „smegduobės“ ir jas identifikuojantys požymiai
The article analyses the terminology of sexuality and its education, highlighting the prevalence of two distinct processes: sex education and sexuality education.These two processes are often identified based on their objectives, results and content.The article emphasises that sexuality is a worldview concept, and the postmodern conception of sexuality currently being introduced in formal and nonformal education in Europe and many other countries worldwide is based on an understanding of gender as a social construct, gender diversity, chosen sexual identity and reproduction.This stands in stark contrast to the Christian anthropological perspective, which posits that humans are dual beings, bound by love and procreation.The crux of the article lies in its identification of the worldview underpinning sexuality education, with procreation and the sex system -whether binary or diverse -serving as the primary criteria.The choice of the term 'sinkhole' for the article's title is deliberate, as it symbolises the concept of a worldview that is lacking in depth or substance.The integral components of comprehensive sexuality education, such as pleasure, consent, and genderneutral language, are not immediately apparent, yet they have the potential to engender longterm adverse consequences for adolescents' health and emotional maturity.The paper concludes that it is appropriate to refer to educational processes based on different conceptions of sexuality in different terms: natural sexuality education is a process based on a binary gender system, while
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