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The purpose of this study is to examine the way in which sexual education is discussed in educational trade journals in Finland. The subject of the study is the sexual education of young children of 0 to 12 years old. The intention is to also look at how the writings that emerge are related to the obligatory educational documents in Finland. Methodological bases for this study are post-structuralism and feminist methodology. Through a critical approach to research’s content, this research also aims at societal debate and, ultimately, change. The material used in the study is three volumes of Lastentarha and Opettaja journals, a total of eighty-one (81) journals. These materials are examined by means of critical discourse analysis (CDA), highlighting both the tone of writing and their possible origins and purposes. At the same time, the discursive exercise of power by media emerges, the effects of which I discuss in the emergence of discourses. The results show that there is little talk in the magazines about sexual education. Still, issues related to the content of sexual education are talked about, and discursive ways that focus on one's own ideologies can be observed. At the same time, the tone of writing about sexual education are coloured by the activities that focus on self-evident views and the defensiveness of the theme within its taboo-like status.