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Abstract: Unique in school contexts, physical education (PE) explicitly focuses on the physicality of all people involved: In PE, students' bodies form the basis of lesson-related activities and the point of reference for evaluating and grading. The body is touched, observed, and openly displayed. Students judge and measure each other's bodies on the basis of normative criteria like weight, proportionality, fitness, and the like. In view of this fact, PE seems to offer a particular disruption potential to experience transgressive situations with regard to one's sense of shame. In this article, we focus on a study in PE that retrospectively examined situations in PE that students perceived as violating their sense of shame. Data collection was based on short written narratives; their analysis and assessment was carried out through sequential analysis. Results show from students' points of view, their sense of shame and intimacy is violated in multiple ways in the context of PE lessons - by ex
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