Robot Babies, Young People, and Pregnancy Prevention: Alternative Imaginings of Sexual Futures

This chapter takes up the notion of temporality in its focus on sexuality education and “chromonormative” understandings of teen pregnancy and parenting. The authors argue that, for the most part, sex education is bound by a chromonormative view of sexuality and reproduction; that is, one that ascribes certain attitudes and behaviors about reproduction to particular age groups. The authors are specifically interested in the problematization of teenage parenthood. They analyze a teen-parenthood prevention program and theorize about the ways that programs such as these might be used not just for prophylaxis, but to shift and rupture the ways that we understand young peoples’ sexual and reproductive futures.