June 2, 2000
Thoughts on Sex Ed From a Historian of the Field
Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century by Jeffrey P. Moran (Harvard University Press)
Birds do it, bees do it, even educated Victorians did it -- but they sure didn't want to teach their kids to do it too, says Jeffrey P. Moran, a historian at the University of Kansas. In Teaching Sex, Mr. Moran traces the origins of sex ed to turn-of-the-century instruction in abstinence during adolescence, which was defined as the period between sexual maturity and marriage.
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