Disability

Question 1

Moral panics involving sexuality examples

Answer 1

Homosexuals in 1980s blamed for spread of aids ‘gay plague’
Teenage girls in 1990s labelled as promiscuous and getting pregnant for council housing

Question 2

Batchelor

Answer 2

Limitations in media coverage of sexuality:
- It was assumed that those over 16 were sexuality active
- contraception portrayed as females responsibility
- lack of positive images for gay people