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The article examines the history of developments in concepts about sexuality and education in Victoria. It explores an interdisciplinary methodology to the teaching of sex and sexualities education which highlights the historical curriculum content and questions the shifts in sex and sexualities education since 1979. It utilizes the Foucauldian techniques of analysis to analyze the emergence of health or student wellbeing as the vital discursive form wherein sexuality is directed as the proper work of schools. It discusses the contemporary pedagogical practices in the field of Australian sexualities education which have arisen out of specific historical challenges in Australia for gay and lesbian human rights and for anti-homophobic schooling.