In Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy, Jonathan Alexander argues that literacy and sexuality are intricately linked and argues that composition should pay attention to a critical sexual literacy. He defines sexual literacy as "the knowledge complex that recognizes the significance of sexuality to self- and communal definition and that critically engages the stores we tell about sex and sexuality to probe them for controlling values and for ways to resist, when necessary, constraining norms" More...

Alexander makes a compelling case that to be critically literate in our world, one must have a firm understandings of sexuality (ie, the way it's constructed by dominant discourse). Thus, he argues, sexuality studies deserve an important place in college writing courses...