A Study on Sexuality Education Books for Parents : Focusing on Personalism Perspective

At the root of recent bioethics issues are problems related to awareness or attitude toward sexuality. In order to overcome these problems, we can see that it progresses step by step from childhood through the entire life cycle by looking at when and how awareness of sexuality is formed. As an important entity that educates on sexuality, the family is the first place in life where new life is born and raised, and parents can pass on the truth and mystery of sexuality and life to their children. Therefore the importance of sexuality education at home cannot be further emphasized. Accordingly, this thesis selected 19 children's sexuality education books for parents(hereinafter referred to as “parent sexuality education books”) published within the past 5 years by experts in charge of sexuality education in Korea, reviewed the trends and topics of parent sexuality education books, childbirth, and abortion, we select four topics(sexual intercourse, contraception, childbirth, abortion) to analyze their contents and perspectives, and present problems and suggestions. As a result of the study, the topics from parents' sexuality education books were biased towards topics that explained some sexual issues, and the content explaining them contained anti-life elements. Furthermore, differences in interpretation can be found according to various perspectives on sexuality, and as a result of this, the topics and contents of sexuality education lack consistency or morality. Sexual intercourse, which is an act toward life, contraception, which rejects the conception of life, and abortion, which kills life, on the contrary, birth, which is the entire process of conceiving and giving birth to life, are all connected to sexuality and life. One of the important reasons why sexuality education is a burden in many families is because human sexuality is directly related to human life, making the topic serious and difficult. Since human life is a value that must be protected and promoted above all else, we need firm and clear standards and perspectives on life. Accordingly, this paper seeks to reinterpret human sexuality based on the concept of personality and the perspective of personalism.