This study shows that participants actively engaged with questions about sexuality that go beyond reproduction and risk, including bodily experiences, pleasure, and moral norms. However, their interests are produced through intra-actions (Barad, Meeting the universe halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning, 2007) within adult-centred, reproductive, and age-regulated assemblages, which define possibilities for knowing, feeling and speaking about sexuality. The findings highlight a persistent gap between children's lived experiences and current approaches to CSE, which often overlook affective dimensions, embodied knowledge, and children's own meaning-making processes. Advancing a rights-based CSE requires recognising children as sexual subjects, and creating diverse, safe spaces that allow them to explore sexuality in ways that are inclusive and grounded in their everyday realities.
Malgosa et al. (Sat,) studied this question.